JD Vance urges media to cover military recruitment success under Trump admin

Vice President JD Vance addressed media criticism of the Trump administration and what he considers "underreported" facts from the president's first 100 days in office.

Vance spoke up during the meeting to argue that Trump stands out as a sign of changing times in the 40-year span of his own life so far.

"What has happened in a hundred days is that we've started to reverse every single one of those negative trends," Vance observed.

The vice president went on to suggest that many of America's past presidents have been mere "placeholders" rather than men of action. 

"The reason the media attacks this administration as chaotic is because the president is solving the problems the American people set about to solve," he argued.

Vance called out the media again for failing to report Trump's positive impact on military recruitment.

"To the media assembled here, it's a really interesting question, why has that happened?" he asked. "Completely aside from the fact that I think it's a good thing, or I think that President Trump deserves political credit for it, why did we go from a military where people didn't want to serve, to now all of the sudden they do want to serve? That's a story you guys should cover."

Vance argued that the media has instead been fixated on other topics in order to criticize the president.

"Compared to that, how much time have you instead focused on the fact that we deported an MS-13 gang member with a valid deportation order, and why is it that the press is so focused on the fake BS rather than what's really going on in the country?" he asked. 

"I think that we've shown, sir, is that you could do a lot. You can do a lot in 100 days, but you've also, unfortunately, revealed that too much of the American media hasn't learned the lessons of the past 40 years," Vance added, speaking to Trump.