JD Vance denies quote on neighbors’ language, but stresses need for one common tongue
First of all, it's just a made up quote. Completely dishonest.
— JD Vance (@JDVance) December 8, 2025
Second, what's reasonable is to want to share a language with your neighbor. How do you borrow a cup of sugar? Resolve disagreements? Have a nice conversation? You need a common language, and in America, that… https://t.co/WaqVZm0je8
WASHINGTON, DC: Vice President JD Vance took to the social media platform X to clear the air about his comments about America needing a single language on Monday, December 8.
Vance’s tweet was in response to Spencer Hakimian claiming that the vice president believed it was “totally reasonable” to not want neighbors who speak other languages.
JD Vance calls online quote dishonest amid language backlash
In response to the backlash online about his stance on having neighbors who speak different languages, the vice president cleared the air on Monday.
Reposting Hakimian’s post, he said it was a “made up quote” and called it “completely dishonest.”
Vance added that it was “reasonable” to want to share a language with one’s neighbors. He questioned how people would borrow “a cup of sugar” or resolve disagreements without a common language.
“In America, that language is English,” he wrote.
The vice president further criticized the “far Left” for becoming “so deranged” on matters related to immigration, that they were attacking people “for wanting to be able to speak to their neighbors.”
JD Vance says wanting a common language is ‘totally reasonable’
In October 2025, JD Vance appeared on Miranda Devine’s podcast, where he chimed in about Americans living next door to immigrants.
At the time, Vance said that it was “totally reasonable” and “acceptable” for American citizens to look at their neighbors and feel that they lived next to someone they had “something in common with.”
“I don’t want to live next to four families of strangers,” Vance said while on ‘Pod Force One’.
He commented on the presence of Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, and said that one-third of the population was Haitian.
Offering the perspective of a landlord, Vance said that previous tenants would pay $1000 a month for a three-bedroom house for a family of four or five people.
“Now, all of a sudden, four families of Haitian migrants come in, each of them getting $1000 per family,” Vance said.
The vice president added that the migrants were willing to put 20 people into a three-bedroom house, which hiked the rent prices for everybody.
Vance said that one could respect their dignity while also being angry at the Biden administration for letting them in.
