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There may be no other phrase more fitting for the second Trump administration than “I don’t give a sh-t.”
That was Vice President J.D. “Very Online” Vance on Saturday morning, though the full quotation is, “I don’t give a sh-t what you call it.” The “you” in this case was Brian Krassenstein, a prominent left-wing poster on X, and the “it” was last week’s strike by the U.S. military on a boat in the southern Caribbean that President Donald Trump has said was manned by members of the transnational criminal organization Tren de Aragua (TdA).
Michael Warren is a politics editor at The Dispatch and is based in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining the company in 2023, he was an on-air reporter at CNN and a senior writer at the Weekly Standard. When Mike is not reporting, writing, editing, and podcasting, he is probably spending time with his wife and three sons.
