JD Vance trolled after claiming he’d ‘never’ praise Obama - despite writing article doing exactly that

Social media users have trolled JD Vance for claiming he “never” praises Barack Obama — despite a glowing op-ed about the former president seven years ago.

At a rally in Detroit, Michigan, on Tuesday, the GOP vice presidential nominee spoke highly of Obama’s response to a natural disaster as a point of comparison to the Biden-Harris administration’s response to Hurricane Helene — efforts that he has repeatedly attacked and spread falsehoods about.

“You’re never gonna hear me praise Barack Obama,” Vance said, before correcting himself: “You rarely hear me praise Barack Obama.”

But X users quickly pointed out that Vance has in fact praised Obama before — in the form of a 2017 New York Times op-ed article. Vance wouldn’t enter into the political arena for another five years, when he won an Ohio Senate seat in 2022.

In that piece, Vance, who documented his own childhood woes in his memoir Hillbilly Elegy, commended how Obama treated his family and carried himself, noting that if he had experienced his own traumatic upbringing, he never showed it. “He and his wife treated each other with clear love and respect, and he adored and cared for his children,” the op-ed read. “Whatever scars his childhood left, he refused to let those scars control him.”

Vance continued: “The president’s example offered something no other public figure could: hope. I wanted so desperately to have what he had — a happy marriage and beautiful, thriving children. But I thought that those things belonged to people unlike me, to those who came from money and intact nuclear families. “Yet here was the president of the United States, a man whose history looked something like mine but whose future contained something I wanted.”

Although his political