J.D. Vance Justifies Tariffs by Promising Parents Their Kids Will Have American-Made Weapons if ‘God Forbid’ They Go to War
Vice President J.D. Vance is speaking out in defense of President Donald Trump’s tariffs — including his statements about children needing fewer toys — by arguing that Americans could benefit from using American-made weapons if “God forbid … your country goes to a war.”
During an interview with Fox News host Martha MacCallum on Thursday, May 8, Vance, 40, spoke out about Trump’s comments about his tariffs on goods from China, and said that Americans “need to become more self-reliant.”
“That’s not going to happen overnight, and it’s not always going to be easy,” Vance told MacCallum. “What I’d ask people is not whether they want two dolls or five dolls or 20 dolls for their kids. I’d ask American moms and dads, would you like to be able to go into a pharmacy and know that the drugs your kids need are actually available to you?”
“As an American parent, would you like to — God forbid, if your country goes to a war and your son or daughter is sent off to fight—would you like to know that the weapons that they have are good, American-made stuff, not made by a foreign adversary?” Vance continued.
Vance’s interview comes after Trump made comments about his tariffs on foreign goods during a cabinet meeting on April 30.
“Somebody said the shelves will be open. Well, maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30. Maybe the two dolls will cost a couple of bucks more than they would normally,” Trump said, responding to a question about how the tariffs might continue to affect the U.S. marketplace.
“But we’re not talking about something where we’ll have to go out of our way,” he continued. “They have ships that are loaded up with stuff, much of which we don’t need. And we have to make a fair deal. We’ve been ripped off by every country in the world, but China, I would say, is the leading one.”
In early April, the president upped the tariffs to 145%. Bloomberg reported this week that cargo shipments from China have fallen by an estimated 60%. By the beginning of May, the U.S. Commerce Department released a new report indicating that the American economy shrank by 0.3% during the first quarter of 2025.
Additionally, on Wednesday, after days of insisting he wouldn’t change course on his sweeping, market-plummeting tariff plan, Trump said he would issue a 90-day pause on the tariffs for nearly all nations — excluding China, which had its import tax bumped up to 125%.
Following the announcement, Trump spoke with reporters at the White House, offering his reasoning.
“I thought that people were jumping a little bit out of line… They were getting a little bit yippy, a little bit afraid,” he said.
“We’ve got a big job to do,” Trump continued. “No other president would have done what I did… No others. I know the presidents, they wouldn’t have done it.”
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