" These people are just ghouls . apparent and simple-minded . "

JD Vance was in Rome this past weekend for the pope’s inaugural mass.

He met the pope, and luckily, the new pope appears to be alive and well after their encounter…

Vice President JD Vance and his wife , second ma’am Usha Vance , greet Pope Leo XIV at his inaugural pot at the Vatican Sunday.#pope#popeleo#popeleoxiv#jdvance

But I’m not here to talk about that, I’m here to talk about what he had to say coming back on Air Force One aboutJoe Biden’s cancer diagnosis.

So, I’m sure you’ve seen Donald Trump’s very un-Donald Trump-like response to the news:

Well, JD Vance had a more typical Trump-like response to it. Here’s how he answered a simple question about if he had any thoughts about the diagnosis:

Vice President JD Vance on Monday wished former President Biden well follow his cancer diagnosing , but also aver it raises questions about how gossamer the Biden administration was being about his health . “ First of all , of line , we wish the best for the former Chief Executive ’s health . You roll in the hay , it vocalise pretty serious , but hopefully he create the right retrieval , ” the frailty President of the United States say aboard Air Force Two after meeting with Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican . “ Whether the veracious sentence to have this conversation is now or at some breaker point in the time to come , we really do need to be fair about whether the former president was adequate to of doing the job . ” Vice President Vance said he did n’t trust President Biden was in “ good enough wellness ” to do the job . “ In some ways , I blame him less than I find fault the the great unwashed around him , ” he said . “ Why did n’t the American mass have a in force sense of his health characterisation ? Why did n’t the American people have more accurate information about what he was actually dealing with ? This is serious stuff . ” The former President of the United States was diagnose Friday with an belligerent form of prostate malignant neoplastic disease that has metastasized to his bones after a nodule was get a line on his prostate following urinary symptoms . “ While this represents a more aggressive form of the disease , the genus Cancer is likely endocrine - tender which allows for effective management , ” his office said in a statement.#jdvance#biden#cancer#cspan

“Look, I mean, first of all, of course, we wish the best for the former president’s health. It sounds pretty serious, but hopefully he makes the right recovery. Look, I-I-I will say,” he stutters. “Whether the right time to have this conversation is now or some point in the future, we really need to be honest about whether the former president was capable of doing the job. And that’s no, you can separate the desire for him to have the right health outcome with the recognition that whether it was doctors or whether it was staffers around the former president, I don’t think he was able to do a good job for the American people. That’s not politics, that’s not because I disagreed with him on policy. That’s because I don’t think he was in good enough health.”

“In some ways, I blame him less than I blame the people around him. Why didn’t the American people have a better sense of his health picture? Why didn’t the American people have more accurate information about what he was actually dealing with? This is serious stuff,” he continued. “This is the guy that carries around the nuclear football for the world’s largest nuclear arsenal. This is not child’s play. And we can pray for good health, but also recognize that if you’re not in good enough health to do the job, then you shouldn’t be doing the job.”

People are calling it “shockingly unchristian.”

Other people are calling it a “complete asinine response.”

And this person asked, “What does this point have to do with his cancer diagnosis?”

@ChrisDJacksonsaid, “Jesus Christ. These people are just ghouls. Plain and simple.”

@LuisMorenolgsaid, “Even Trump had more class than this low life.”

And@Brady_Pacsimply shared the new pope’s now infamous tweet:

Two individuals wearing formal outfits and sunglasses are seated at an outdoor event

A man in a suit sits with a group at an outdoor event, looking toward the distance. Other attendees are partially visible

Tweet by Donald Trump wishing Joe Biden a fast and successful recovery after a medical diagnosis, dated May 18, 2025

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A tweet by Billy Ray criticizes JD Vance's comments about President Biden's cancer diagnosis. A photo of Vance accompanies the tweet

A man in a suit stands inside an aircraft near a seal reading "President of the United States." The tweet criticizes his comments on Biden's health

Man speaks on airplane in a CSPAN video clip, discussing former President Biden's cancer diagnosis. Social media user criticizes his comment

Man speaking to media, eyes closed, in a room with a podium, large seal, and "EXIT" sign. Tweet above him criticizes people's response to Biden's health

Screenshot of a tweet criticizing VP JD Vance's statement on former President Biden's cancer diagnosis, shared by user Luis Moreno