Vice President JD Vance shared the spotlight with a young fan on Wednesday, giving the boy an “excuse” for skipping school.
Vance spoke at the Concord-Padgett Regional Airport in North Carolina, after which he took questions from the press. During this, the vice president called on a “young man” who “doesn’t look like a journalist,” but offered him a chance to ask a question anyway because “I’m not going to deny that level of energy and that level of passion.”
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The boy, Henry, said he skipped school that day and asked if he could get a picture with Vance, drawing applause from the other attendees.
“Well, I guess you got to have some excuse to skip school, so I might as well get a photo with Henry,” Vance said, inviting Henry onstage to take a selfie.
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Vance also spoke about late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel returning to the air Tuesday night, saying the Trump administration has put “zero” pressure to remove Kimmel outside of “a joke” that Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr made on X.
The vice president also pointed to the pressure that the Biden administration placed on social media platforms like YouTube to censor conservatives. He said this government censorship “left the White House” when former President Joe Biden did.