Vice President JD Vance entered the Oval Office for the first time on Tuesday in a surreal moment caught on video by the Speaker of the House.
Vance had never visited the president’s office, even during his two years as a senator from Ohio.
“As we gathered for our meeting at the White House yesterday, JD Vance mentioned to us that he had never before visited the Oval Office,” House Speaker Mike Johnson wrote in a post on X.
“I told him and President Trump that I HAD to capture the moment on video,” Johnson said. “Only in America can a hardworking young man from Appalachia rise from his humble circumstances to enter the Oval for first time as VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. What a country!”
As we gathered for our meeting at the White House yesterday, JD Vance mentioned to us that he had never before visited the Oval Office. I told him and President Trump that I HAD to capture the moment on video. Only in America can a hardworking young man from Appalachia rise from… pic.twitter.com/H4aHOyyfVt
— Speaker Mike Johnson (@SpeakerJohnson) January 22, 2025
Vance’s humble roots are well known. His childhood in Ohio was marked by poverty and family dysfunction, and he emerged from those difficult circumstances to become a Marine, a Yale Law graduate, a venture capitalist, a senator, and now vice president of the United States.
“Come on in,” President Donald Trump said as he invited Vance and Johnson into the Oval Office.
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“Wow,” Vance said. “This is pretty crazy.”
“Oh you’ve never been?” Trump asked him.
“I’ve never been inside this room. This is incredible,” Vance responded.
On Monday, Trump and Vance were sworn into office during the inauguration ceremony, which was held in the Capitol Rotunda due to freezing temperatures outside.
The next day, Republican congressional leaders met with Trump and Vance at the White House, where he reportedly urged the party to stick together to deliver on his agenda.
Trump began his presidency with a flurry of executive orders on issues from border security and deportations to protecting women from trans-identifying men in private spaces to axing DEI programs at federal agencies. More orders withdrew the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement and the World Health Organization, froze federal hiring and regulation, and suspended the TikTok ban.
The president also issued nearly 1,600 pardons to all the people charged in connection with the January 6 riot at the Capitol.
