JD Vance Shreds Mitch McConnell Over 'Ridiculous Attack on the President's Team'

For years, Americans on the right have used the term “the swamp” to describe the permanent political class that clings to power, protects its own interests, and sabotages any attempt to put the country first. But depending on who you ask, that swamp can take many forms.

For the America First movement, the definition is increasingly clear: the old guard of Republican politics — the neoconservative establishment that has spent decades pushing foreign interventions while ignoring the struggles of working Americans. And based on Vice President J.D. Vance’s latest remarks, it’s clear that Sen. Mitch McConnell fits squarely into that category.

McConnell ignited a political firestorm after publicly attacking President Donald J. Trump’s approach to the ongoing war between Ukraine and Russia.

“Putin has spent the entire year trying to play President Trump for a fool,” McConnell had said. “If administration officials are more concerned with appeasing Putin than securing real peace, then the president ought to find new advisors.”

It was a classic establishment broadside — and Vance wasted no time firing back.

“This is a ridiculous attack on the president’s team, which has worked tirelessly to clean up the mess in Ukraine that Mitch — always eager to write blank checks to Biden’s foreign policy — left us,” Vance posted.

Then he added a pointed warning directed squarely at McConnell’s political future: “I wonder if the three candidates to replace McConnell in Kentucky share his views here.”

The Vice President wasn’t done. Hours later, Vance returned to X with a broader message — one aimed not just at McConnell, but at the entire Republican establishment that seems obsessed with foreign conflicts while ignoring the chaos playing out in American communities.

“After four years of house prices doubling (and in some areas, tripling) many young people feel priced out of the American Dream of homeownership,” Vance posted. “A welfare fraud scandal in Minnesota reveals that large numbers of new arrivals aren’t assimilating and are funneling our tax dollars to literal terrorist groups. An innocent woman was set on fire in Chicago as the mayor resists federal law enforcement resources to bring peace to one of our great cities. The Obamacare insurance system is buckling under its own weight. And the country is $38 trillion in debt.

“Our administration is working hard on addressing all of these problems. But you know what really fires up the beltway GOP? Not any of the above.

“Instead, the political class is really angry that the Trump administration may finally bring a four year conflict in Eastern Europe to a close.

“I’m not even talking about the substance of their views. Much of what these people have said about the Ukraine war has been proven wrong, but whatever. We can agree to disagree.

“But the level of passion over this one issue when your own country has serious problems is bonkers.

“It disgusts me. Show some passion for your own country.”

Vance’s comments reflect a widening divide inside the GOP: the America First agenda versus a fading establishment still clinging to the foreign-policy priorities of the Bush and Obama eras. And with President Trump committed to ending endless wars and restoring order at home, the clash between those visions is only growing sharper.