Does Donald Trump really view JD Vance as his inevitable successor in 2028? He told Fox News’s Bret Baier so, and boy, what a stinging rebuke! Plucked from a minor celebrity status into politics in 2022, and thrust into the national limelight following Trump’s endorsement during the Ohio Senate race, Vance is practically the quintessential MAGA convert, marred only by a thin layer of uncertainty due to his past descriptions of his boss as ‘America’s Hitler’.