Vice President J.D. Vance is asked by FOX News host Sean Hannity what he has learned from President Donald Trump in an interview on “Hannity.” “The President has an amazing ability to know when somebody’s trying to get something over on him, when somebody’s actually thinking about things in the best interest of the country,” Vance told Hannity. “It’s almost a supernatural ability to read human beings. I’ve tried to learn as much as I can about it. Again, some of that is just his innate ability. Some of that is something that I think that you can pick up, and I’ve tried to pick that up as much as I can because it’s amazing, Sean.”

SEAN HANNITY: What have you learned from President Trump? I mean, he is a force of nature. VICE PRESIDENT J.D. VANCE: He is. HANNITY: I’ve known him 30 years. What have you learned from him? VANCE: You know, a few things. Number one, the President is amazing at compartmentalizing things. When something is going on, there’s always a crisis. The very best day in the West Wing, there’s at least one crisis somewhere in the world that somebody’s putting your desk. The President has an incredible ability to sort of say, okay, focus on that for 15 minutes and then go and focus on something totally different for 15 minutes. That’s not naturally how I am. If something bad is going on, I tend to want to think about that thing and solve that problem before I go on to something else. The President is incredible at that compartmentalization. I think that’s one of the reasons why he can handle 10 different problems at once is because he’s able to troubleshoot and then move on to the next thing. Troubleshoot and move on to the next thing. The second thing that I’ve learned from the President, Sean, and I’ve tried to absorb it as much as I can, and I think some of this is just who he is and his natural instincts, is he has better instincts about human beings than anybody that I’ve ever met. Again, the President of the United States, you think about this, you can’t read every briefing and every detail about every single topic. A hundred different things are coming into the Oval Office every hour, right? Part of it is you’ve got to be able to trust the people around you to delegate and to execute, but to have that trust for people, you’ve got to have very, very good instincts. The President has an amazing ability to know when somebody’s trying to get something over on him, when somebody’s actually thinking about things in the best interest of the country. It’s almost a supernatural ability to read human beings. I’ve tried to learn as much as I can about it. Again, some of that is just his innate ability. Some of that is something that I think that you can pick up, and I’ve tried to pick that up as much as I can because it’s amazing, Sean. Let me give you an example. There was a time where there was a meeting that I couldn’t go to again because I had to be on Capitol Hill related to the big, beautiful bill, and I was really worried that I wouldn’t be in the meeting because I knew what the people in the meeting were going to say, and I was worried that I couldn’t push back against it. I remember talking to the President about it later, and he knew exactly what they were going to say. He knew exactly what their angle was. He knew exactly what their motivation was, and he just, he reads people and tries to use, you know, it’s almost, he’s able to use people’s own motivations to figure out whether they’re trying to get something that’s good for America or whether they’re trying to get something that’s good for them, and obviously, if it’s good for America, he’s all on board. If it’s just good for them, he’s going to be a little bit more skeptical, but that capacity to figure that out, I think it’s why he’s such an effective leader and why he’s such a good president.

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