JD Vance Really Stepped In It Again

It seems that somebody lost the president over the weekend.

View in Browser  Tuesday, September 2, 2025 The big rumor across social media this weekend was that President Trump had died. He didn't, of course. The president spoke to the press today and answered a question, sort of, about the speculation. Standing behind him at the press conference was Vice President JD Vance, whose own statements fueled the rumor mill about the president's health. In a column today, Esquire's Charles P. Pierce explains what the VP's latest blunder says about the man who's one heartbeat away from the presidency.  – Michael Sebastian, editor-in-chief    Plus: Zenith just turned a chunk of outer space into a $17,500 watch The 20 best gifts for watch lovers AI anxiety is plaguing our TV shows Trump's Not Dead, but It Sounds Like JD Vance Wouldn't Mind If He Were Vance, the most universally loathed vice president since Aaron Burr, is ready to step in at a moment's notice. It seems that somebody lost the president over the weekend. And wherever he was, it seems he lost his phone for the weekend. There even were rumors that he'd passed on! That he was no more! He had ceased to be! He'd expired and gone to meet his maker! That he was a stiff! Bereft of life, he rests in peace! That his metabolic processes are now history! He was off the twig! He'd kicked the bucket. He'd shuffled off his mortal coil, rung down the curtain, and joined the bleeding choir invisible. Turns out he's alive, at least the husk of him is. But since his White House is managing this situation even worse than they've managed the whole Epstein business, opinions on his viability remain divided.  READ THE STORY There's so much going on in the white-T-shirt world right now that the biggest hurdle is to just find the one for you. Luke Guillory selects 13 White T-Shirts for every type of man (and any possible budget). >> Trump's National Guard deployment was ruled illegal. Charles P. Pierce unpacks the judge's ruling. >> I'm a Professional Skysurfer. At 50 Years Old, I Attempted My Most Daring Stunt Yet. When I called Jerry Loftis, the only guy in America teaching skysurfing, he said I needed 500 jumps to train with him. I had maybe eighty. "Of course," I lied. "I've done that." He said I needed to be an accomplished sit flyer. "Oh, I definitely can do that," I lied again, then went to look up what sit flying was. Skydiving isn't exactly an area where you should pad your resume, but it turned out to be supernaturally intuitive for me. Within hours, I was doing tricks that should have taken months to master. Jerry later found out I lied, forgave me, and we became great friends. When he passed away years later, I used his workshop to build one final board, the same kevlar-wrapped board with a honeycomb core I've been flying for the past twenty years. As Told To Sean Evans Tom Hopper on The Terminal List: Dark Wolf, Fatherhood, and Bonding with Taylor Kitsch With Tom Hopper's time on the Netflix series The Umbrella Academy as the musclebound superhero Luther (which required Hopper to wear a bodysuit) now finished, the actor trades superpowers for black-ops tactics as one of the main stars in The Terminal List: Dark Wolf, now streaming on Prime Video.   Hopper remembers the moment he felt his role in The Terminal List: Dark Wolf was written in the stars. While reading True Believer, published in 2019 as the second book in the Terminal List series by author Jack Carr (whose former life as a U.S. Navy SEAL profoundly informs his espionage thrillers), a certain moment gave Hopper pause. Two characters, Freddie and Reece, had an interaction that hit home for the 40-year-old British actor. By Eric Francisco Follow Us Unsubscribe | Privacy Notice | CA Notice at Collection Esquire is a publication of Hearst Magazines. ©2025 Hearst Magazine Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. This email was sent by Hearst Magazines, 300 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019-3779