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Vance Humiliates Himself With Bonkers Trump IQ Brag

The Daily Beast

June 19, 2026

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Vance Humiliates Himself With Bonkers Trump IQ Brag

Chip Somodevilla/AFP via Getty ImagesVice President JD Vance claims President Donald Trump has one of the highest, if not the highest, IQs out of any president in American history. He made the claim during an appearance on The Diary of A CEO podcast, during which he claimed that he is “embarrassed” thinking back to 2016, when he did not believe that Trump, whom he said at the time may be “America’s Hitler,” was intelligent.“I remember this in 2016, and in hindsight, it’s just so, so dumb,” Vance said of his previous thinking. “People would say that [Trump] was dumb, or that he wasn’t very smart.”Read more at The Daily Beast.

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