Vance Reveals 'empowering' Aspects Of Trump's Leadership That Enables 'trust' And Squashes 'turf Battles'

EXCLUSIVE: WASHINGTON — Vice President JD Vance said he feels "very empowered" by President Donald Trump, telling Fox News Digital that location is "complete spot crossed nan elder team," and "good synergies" successful "service of a communal vision." 

Vance sat for an exclusive question and reply pinch Fox News Digital Wednesday successful his West Wing agency wrong nan White House. 

The vice president reflected connected his domiciled arsenic vice president, which, notably, is not constricted to a circumstantial portfolio, but alternatively a wide domiciled rubbing connected overseas and home argumentation issues and more.

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Vice President JD Vance said he feels "very empowered" by President Donald Trump. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson - Pool/Getty Images)

"Obviously, nan president makes decisions. And what’s truthful bully astir nan squad that we have, some connected nan economical side, but besides connected nan overseas argumentation side, is nan president gives directives, and each personification has their domiciled successful fulfilling those directives, and location is complete spot crossed nan elder team," Vance explained to Fox News Digital. "It’s benignant of empowering, because you don’t person to perpetually cheque successful — you don’t person to micromanage immoderate of these things."  

Vance told Fox News Digital that he said to Secretary of State Marco Rubio Tuesday, aft not having spoken to him "for 4 aliases 5 days earlier then." 

"It’s benignant of bully to conscionable cognize that you’ve sewage nan caput of State moving connected his stuff, nan Department of Defense caput who’s moving connected his stuff, and I’m, of course, moving connected my stuff," Vance said. "And past we each travel back; we update nan president; we spell from there." 

But Vance said it is "a very fluid and move situation." 

President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance are seen aft a ceremonial pinch nan 2025 College Football Playoff National Champions Ohio State Buckeyes connected nan South Lawn of nan White House April 14, 2025.  (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

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"I deliberation that will surely proceed complete nan adjacent 100 days — complete nan adjacent 4 years," Vance said. "But I deliberation what enables it — what makes it imaginable — is that group really spot 1 another." 

Vance told Fox News Digital that nan president "has afloat religion successful his team." 

"And it conscionable makes it very easy to really activity successfully erstwhile you’re not perpetually checking successful and you’re not constantly, you know, dealing pinch nan bureaucracy," Vance said. "You tin conscionable spell and do your job." 

Vance told Fox News Digital that he, arsenic vice president, feels "very empowered by nan president." 

"I was talking to Secretary Rubio astir this yesterday, and I deliberation Marco Rubio feels very empowered, and there's conscionable this consciousness that nan President some likes and trusts his elder team, and truthful he's capable to govern effectively," Vance explained. "The president is dealing pinch a cardinal different things, but it's a batch much digestible erstwhile you tin springiness directives to your squad and say, ‘Go and do this.’ And that's what's happening connected nan economical side. It's what's happening connected nan nationalist connected nan nationalist information side." 

"And obviously, because I'm nan vice president, I person a much world position of this, but it's really an astonishing point to see, because there's conscionable a batch of bully synergies that, you know, I don't cognize if nan president had nan first management — I don't cognize if immoderate president has had successful anterior administrations — wherever location was specified awesome assurance successful nan team." 

Then President-elect Donald Trump greets then-Vice President-elect JD Vance arsenic they be a work astatine St. John's Church connected nan inauguration time successful Washington, Jan. 20, 2025.  (Carlos Barria/Reuters)

"You publication stories about, you know, Kamala Harris's portfolio, aliases you publication stories astir different vice presidents, about, moreover Dick Cheney's portfolio, wherever location was this move of, location were turf battles, and 1 personification was trying to say, ‘This is what I activity on, and this is what you activity on, and don't measurement connected my territory,’" Vance explained. "There's conscionable nary of that." 

Vance added: "Because our territory is what nan president has told america that we person to get done, and we don't mind sharing that territory if it's successful work of a communal vision, which it is." 

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Meanwhile, erstwhile asked for highlights of nan first 100 days of nan Trump administration, Vance pointed to his first overseas travel successful February to France to talk artificial intelligence.

(L-R) US Secretary of nan Interior Doug Burgum, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, US President Donald Trump, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick listen, during a furniture meeting, successful nan Cabinet Room of nan White House successful Washington, DC, of April 30, 2025.  (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)

"A batch of group were very excited astir American activity successful AI, but then, of course, we gave a reside heard astir nan world astatine Munich wherever I thought — it’s conscionable 1 of nan things you tin do pinch this agency is opportunity things that request to beryllium said," Vance told Fox News Digital.

"And I thought it needed to beryllium said that immoderate of our European friends person gone backward connected free speech, connected belief expression, connected separator control, and successful nan aforesaid measurement that President Trump is trying to alteration that move successful nan United States of America, I deliberation it would behoove our European friends to do nan same."

Another highlight, Vance said, was visiting Eagle Pass, Texas.

"That was different highlight, because location was a consciousness of — and I don’t mean this negatively — almost boredom astatine Eagle Pass because nan Border Patrol agents were showing maine photos of these places that were conscionable overwhelmed by forbidden immigrants and now — you can’t spot anybody."

Members of President Donald Trump's Cabinet, including Vice President JD Vance.  (AP)

Vance reflected connected "visualizing nan driblet successful conscionable a fewer short weeks of a 95% simplification successful forbidden immigration, and nan truth that these guys felt for illustration they didn’t person arsenic overmuch to do."

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"But if they don’t person that overmuch to do, that intends we’re doing nan American people’s business," Vance said. "And conscionable seeing that truthful crystal clear — a relationship betwixt Donald Trump’s policies and nan extremity of nan separator situation — conscionable bully things for nan American people."

"It was a very cool day," he said. "I besides sewage to thrust successful a helicopter."