Vice President JD Vance delivers White House Press Briefing – May 19, 2026
Vice President JD Vance delivered an epic rebuke of the left-wing media while delivering a press briefing on Tuesday after a liberal reporter lectured him in what Vance described as a “speech masquerading as a question.”
The Independent’s White House Correspondent, Andrew Feinberg, pressed Vance with an incredibly long and nasty question that leveled accusations of insider trading against the President before finally getting to the point.
Vance briefly interrupted twice during the monologue, describing it as a “hell of a question,” then later urging, “Okay, what’s the question?”
He finally spit out the question after a tirade about Trump’s stock disclosures, public polling, and Vance’s comments while running for the Senate in 2022, asking, “The question, sir, is how can you and your administration argue to Americans that you’re cleaning up corruption, you’re preventing fraud, you’re fighting the sorts of things that harm people and people’s financial situations when the president seems to be talking up stocks that he owns, selling them and enriching himself?”
After Feinberg’s nearly 90-second-long speech, Vance went off, trolling him with a lesson on asking a question. “That was a doozy. Before I answer your question, I want to just observe there are different ways to ask a question,” Vance said, scolding the reporter for giving a speech instead of just asking a question.
The Vice President told the reporter, “You can just ask a question and try to get your answer, or you could do like a speech, where you say, you know, ‘Mr. Vice President, you know, you’re a terrible human being, and so is the President, so is the entire cabinet.’ And then I’m like, ‘What’s your question?’ And then your question is, ‘How dare you?’”
“Come on, man. Have a little bit of objectivity in the way that you ask these questions,” he added before answering the question and explaining that the President has independent investment managers, is not trading stocks himself, and still supports a ban on insider trading for public officials.
WATCH:
Feinberg: The President’s financial disclosures were released recently, and they showed a lot of stock trades in companies that he has talked up at events, official events at the White House, on his Truth Social account, sometimes even putting the stock ticker symbols in his posts and encouraging people to buy their stock. Americans, according to recent polling, are increasingly describing the president as corrupt and trading stocks—
Vance: This is a hell of a question.
Feinberg: Trading individual stocks is something that you have said that public officials should not be able to do when you ran for senate all those years ago, and yet the president, who arguably has access to more non-public information than your average senator, is not only buying and selling individual stocks, either through his, through his trust—
Vance: Okay, what’s the question?
Feinberg: The question is, the question, sir, is how can you and your administration argue to Americans that you’re cleaning up corruption, you’re preventing fraud, you’re fighting the sorts of things that harm people and people’s financial situations when the president seems to be talking up stocks that he owns, selling them and enriching himself?
Vance: Okay, so here, let me, let me, let me answer your question here. That was a doozy. Before I answer your question, I want to just observe there are different ways to ask a question, okay? You can just ask a question and try to get your answer, or you could do like a speech, where you say, you know, “Mr. Vice President, you know, you’re a terrible human being, and so is the President, so is the entire cabinet.” And then I’m like, “What’s your question?” And then your question is, “How dare you?” Come on, man. Have a little bit of objectivity in the way that you ask these questions, because there were a lot of things in that speech masquerading as a question that didn’t actually get asked, okay?
Number one, the president doesn’t sit at the Oval Office on his computer on his, like, Robinhood account, buying and selling stocks. That’s absurd. He has independent wealth advisors who manage his money. He is a wealthy person. He has had success in business. He’s not making these stock trades himself. And your question imputes that. It sort of, it doesn’t say it exactly, but a reasonable person listening to that question would assume the President is sitting around doing that. He’s not!
Second of all, you’re right, I’m a big fan of banning members of Congress from trading stocks. So is the President of the United States. And all of us believe that nobody should be taking proprietary information gained from public service and buying and selling stocks. We want to ban— we want to ban that. We want to ban that process, and I think the way to lead by example is banning that process, banning that approach, and making it illegal, which is exactly what the President has proposed doing.
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