Vance Responds To Reporters Questions Amid Trump Officials Interview
The mainstream media’s appetite for palace intrigue is nothing new—but what’s unfolding now feels like the journalistic equivalent of fan fiction, where speculation replaces evidence and the truth is bent to fit a headline. The latest target? A fabricated feud among top members of Donald Trump’s post-2024 administration, with the spotlight once again cast on Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, and now White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles.
CNN ignited one of the earlier sparks with a report claiming friction between Rubio and Witkoff. The charge? That Rubio felt “overshadowed.” But the accusation collapsed quickly under scrutiny. Both men swiftly denied the claims, with Rubio issuing one of the sharper takedowns in recent memory: “CNN is an anti-Trump gossip tabloid… Witkoff is one of the people I work with the CLOSEST on our team.” No ambiguity there.
Vice President JD Vance is asked about the quotes from Susie Wiles in the Vanity Fair article 😂😂
“Sometimes I am a conspiracy theorist, but I only believe in the conspiracy theories that are true.”
“For example, I believed in the crazy conspiracy theory back in 2020 that it… pic.twitter.com/XJ8MRfNjUB
— Andrew Kolvet (@AndrewKolvet) December 16, 2025
But as the saying goes, if the story doesn’t stick, shift the target. Enter Vanity Fair. After an 11-month interview process with Susie Wiles, the outlet released what Wiles herself described as a “disingenuously framed hit piece,” where context was discarded in favor of an innuendo-laced narrative. In one snippet, Wiles is quoted calling Vice President JD Vance a “conspiracy theorist for a decade”—a line Vanity Fair ran with, devoid of the friendship and humor behind it.
But it backfired. When pressed about the remark after an economic speech in Pennsylvania, Vance did not dodge. He leaned into it, flipping the accusation into an indictment of media bias and selective memory.
His response was incisive, listing “conspiracies” that had since become undeniable truths: masking toddlers during COVID, the media’s coordinated effort to mask President Biden’s cognitive decline, and the overtly political lawfare aimed at Donald Trump.
The punchline? “A conspiracy theory is just something that was true six months before the media admitted it.”
His retort wasn’t just a defense of Wiles—it was a strategic strike on the media-industrial complex that continues to rely on lazy narratives and cherry-picked quotes to manufacture friction. Vance’s support for Wiles was unequivocal. He praised her commitment to the America First agenda and her loyalty to both Trump and the nation.
Perhaps the most telling moment came in his closing remark: “We should be giving fewer interviews to mainstream media outlets.” In an era when interviews are weaponized and quotes are mined for controversy rather than clarity, that lesson may be the only takeaway worth underlining.