JD Vance calls Donald J.Trump’s health “off the charts good” as president turns 80
Vice President JD Vance praised Trump's energy and focus in a CBS Sunday Morning interview, describing late-night calls with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
Vice President JD Vance praised Trump's energy and focus in a CBS Sunday Morning interview, describing late-night calls with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
WHITE HOUSE — Donald J.Trump shared a post highlighting Vice President JD Vance’s praise of his health and energy on Truth Social on June 28, 2026 at 7:11 PM EST (see truthsocial).
Here is the full post (see truthsocial): “RedWave Press ✪ @RedWavePress CBS Sunday Morning: How do you see President Trump’s health, his energy as he turns 80 years old today? Vice President JD Vance: “My sense of the president’s health is that it’s off the charts good. His focus, his energy, his constant grinding. I mean, the presidency is a crazy job. You’re constantly have more than a dozen cabinet secretaries. You have every particular crisis that comes up. They’re coming to you at all hours of the night. And the joke that I have with Scott Bessent, our Treasury Secretary, is, we get a call at 2:30 in the morning and it’s the president and he’s like, Were you awake? And it’s like, Yes, sir. I’m always awake at 2:30 A.M.” “That’s been my sense of the president is that he’s constantly going… He’s trying to make every single day count. So he’s constantly pushing everybody to do as much as possible.” “I think he’s in great health.””
JD Vance made the remarks during an interview on CBS Sunday Morning as Trump celebrated his 80th birthday. The vice president described the demands of the presidency, citing the management of more than a dozen cabinet secretaries and constant crises that arise at all hours. Vance shared an anecdote about receiving calls from Trump at 2:30 in the morning alongside Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, portraying the president as relentlessly engaged in the work of governing (see westernjournal.com).
The milestone makes Trump the oldest sitting president in American history. Questions about presidential health and cognitive fitness have dominated political discourse in recent election cycles, making Vance’s public endorsement of Trump’s physical condition notable as it comes from the next person in the line of succession (see dailywire.com).
President Donald J. Trump shared a post on Truth Social on 06/28/2026.
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Vance offered no reference to an independent medical assessment during the interview. The post Trump shared originated from RedWave Press, a conservative news aggregator on social media, and featured a transcript of the CBS exchange rather than original reporting (see townhall.com).
Voters have long weighed a candidate’s age and stamina when evaluating fitness for office. The question gained renewed prominence after concerns about presidential health played a central role in the 2024 campaign cycle, and Trump’s 80th birthday places the issue back in the national spotlight (see wcbm.com).
Trump has posted 219 times on this topic in the last 30 days out of 615 total posts, reflecting a pattern of sharing supportive commentary about his presidency and personal fitness.
Source: Zenger real-time database of all Truth Social posts.
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