By Dana Milbank

At a closed-door Easter luncheon at the White House, President Trump decided to entertain the crowd by humiliating his understudy.

Mr. Trump demanded an update on Iran peace negotiations from Vice President JD Vance. “How’s that moving?” Mr. Trump asked, in a video of the event the White House seemed to have accidentally posted online.

“It’s going good, sir,” Mr. Vance replied from the audience. Mr. Trump cut off the rest of his response.

“Do you see it happening?” the president asked, about a successful end to the war.

“Uh,” the vice president replied. “We’re going to brief it to you.”

Then Mr. Trump delivered his punchline. “So, if it doesn’t happen, I’m blaming JD Vance,” he said, to laughter. “If it does happen, I’m taking full credit.”

Does Mr. Vance still not realize that the joke is on him? The interesting thing is not that he keeps debasing himself but that he gets less and less in return each time. As his political fortunes dim, his soul has become a depreciating asset.

Over and over in recent years, Mr. Vance struck devil’s bargains, first to gain a Senate seat and then to become Mr. Trump’s No. 2. He embraced the anti-immigrant stances he once called “reprehensible” and other dark elements of the MAGA movement in hopes of positioning himself as its next leader.

What once might have been a cruise to the 2028 Republican presidential nomination now looks more like a run through the Strait of Hormuz. Mr. Vance is experiencing a version of the pain experienced by other ambitious Republicans who embraced Mr. Trump only to see themselves used and (eventually) discarded by him.

The ethnonationalist right to which Mr. Vance tethered himself now appears to be faltering at home and abroad. The Iran war has exposed a rift in the MAGA movement, alienating those who believed Mr. Trump’s “I’m not going to start a war” promise — and then watched the “America first” president bomb Yemen, Somalia, Syria, Nigeria, Iraq and Venezuela while threatening Cuba and Greenland.

Mr. Vance had turned himself into a leading America first voice — he said in 2024 that war in Iran is “very much” against the national interest. Then Mr. Trump saddled him with the war.

Polling shows that Mr. Vance’s standing in public esteem is about as low as his boss’s, now the worst of his term. The vice president’s status as Mr. Trump’s heir in the MAGA movement is slipping, as measured by last month’s straw poll at the Conservative Political Action Conference. Secretary of State Marco Rubio surged to 35 percent from 3 percent last year, while Mr. Vance, though still leading, retreated to 53 percent from last year’s 61 percent.

So Mr. Vance is responding as he always has whenever ambition calls: He’s humiliating himself.

The vice president is scheduled to go to Hungary on Tuesday to campaign for the country’s authoritarian leader, Viktor Orban, a Kremlin-allied white nationalist who proclaims that Europeans “do not want to become peoples of mixed race.”

It’s not clear how much Mr. Orban would benefit from the visit. After 16 years in power, his party is trailing in polls despite Mr. Trump’s “complete and total endorsement” in next Sunday’s vote, a February visit from Mr. Rubio, and a reported proposal from Russia to bolster Mr. Orban by staging a fake assassination attempt.

Mr. Vance may hope that the visit will distract from his Iran problem and lift his flagging fortunes in the MAGA movement. Trump supporters lionize Mr. Orban, whose party rewrote Hungary’s Constitution to create an “illiberal democracy” and constantly feuds with the European Union over his anti-immigrant policies.

For an ordinary democratic leader, stumping for Mr. Orban would require a certain amount of nose-holding. But Mr. Vance is no ordinary democratic leader.

He is vice president to a man he once referred to as “cultural heroin” and feared could be “America’s Hitler.” He’s transitioned from public intellectual to social-media troll, using profanity to attack critics and accurate news reporting.

He has more than once dismissed criticism of fellow Republicans caught engaging in racist rants that included bigotry against Indians — even though his wife and children are of Indian descent. He has fueled conspiracy theories, most notably with his claim that people in his home state, Ohio, “have had their pets abducted and eaten” by Haitian immigrants.

For all his moral flexibility, though, there’s probably nothing Mr. Vance can say to make Hungarians feel better. Their economy has been stagnating as Mr. Orban’s family and friends became rich.

Whether Mr. Orban wins or loses, his authoritarianism seems to have run its course and led Hungary to a bad place. Other right-wing nationalists have suffered recent setbacks at the polls in France, and, last year, in the Netherlands. Far-right parties in Germany and elsewhere have begun distancing themselves from Mr. Trump over a war that has made the president even more disliked among American voters.

While anonymous White House officials let it be known that the vice president was skeptical about the war in the lead-up to the invasion, Mr. Trump has cut off that route of escape, saying Mr. Vance was “maybe less enthusiastic about going, but he was quite enthusiastic.” Mr. Vance is reduced to maintaining that war is OK now because “we have a smart president whereas in the past we’ve had dumb presidents.”

Whatever one thinks of the president’s intellect, there is no doubt that we have a smart vice president. That makes it all the more tragic that he hasn’t used his office to be something more than Mr. Trump’s punchline.

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i also heard her abusing the old birdshit man at the airport, she wld just talk up to him and shit, she was hideous, i literally moved my seat to back of plane to avoid

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