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Vance fireside chats on White House site draw commentary

Original: I looked at WH site today (for Trump's AI-related EO / announcement) and saw a header about # Vance doing "fireside chat

A person browsing the White House website for President Trump's AI-related executive order announcement came across a header promoting Vice President JD Vance holding "fireside chats," a format famously associated with Franklin D. Roosevelt. The observer called the branding "creepy" and questioned why Trump himself was not fronting the format rather than his vice president.

Why now: The unusual choice to brand the vice president's outreach with a historically loaded FDR-era format is prompting reactions and questions about messaging roles within the administration.

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• I looked at WH site today (for Trump's AI-related EO / announcement) and saw a header about # Vance doing "fireside chats" (reminiscent of FDR's fireside chats). # MyThoughts at the time (in order): 1) How creepy 2) Why isn't # trump doing that since he's the president 3) Vance… · dalfen@mstdn.social · 8

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