Political expert believes GOP may opt to keep JD Vance in power in case Trump becomes ‘unpredictable’
WASHINGTON, DC: Political expert Adam Boulton has suggested that Vice President JD Vance could take power from President Donald Trump if he becomes too unpredictable, according to Irish Star.
He added that the POTUS' vicious swings from one policy to another could unnerve even his most ardent supporters if the US finds itself in a position it could have avoided, per the outlet.
Adam Boulton thinks JD Vance could replace Donald Trump
Donald Trump took office in his second run as the president in January 2025 and since then, he and his close ally, Elon Musk, have raised eyebrows with one executive order after another.
The first three months of Trump's run have seen tariffs placed on Canada and Mexico, the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico, the temporary cutting off of aid to Ukraine, and the deportation of hundreds of Venezuelans migrants to El Salvador, per Irish Star.
Amid this, Boulton thinks this could impact the president's relationship with his allies inside the Oval Office. He believes they could look to Vance to replace Trump.
Boulton wrote in The i and explained his logic. He stated, "Should Trump become more of an unpredictable liability - tanking the economy with tariffs, say, or pushing America into an armed confrontation with an ally - then Republicans, including cabinet members, may decide that his comparatively squeaky-clean family-oriented VP is a better bet to keep them in power."
However, whether Vance would be a better option for the US is not yet known considering his ability to switch ideological allegiances at a time when many experts are suggesting that the nation is sliding towards authoritarianism, per Irish Star.
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Lead political scientist at V-Dem, Staffan Lindberg wrote in a report, "The USA now seems to be heading toward a transition away from democracy under President Trump. In my view, the reverberations of this are and will be enormous across the world."
Moreover, former Republican communications director Tara Setmayer, told the Guardian, "We are approaching Defcon 1 for our democracy and a lot of people in the media and the opposition leadership don’t seem to be communicating that to the American people. That is the biggest danger of the moment we’re in now: the normalization of it."
Donald Trump's unpredictable moves since taking office
Since Donald Trump took office for his second run as POTUS in January this year, he has taken some unpredictable moves that has raised eyebrows.
In January, Trump signed a two-page memo from the Office of Management and Budget and sent to government agencies that ordered a pause to all grants and loans until mid-February to ensure all programmes match the administration's agenda, per BBC.
He also signed a directive creating the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) - a new advisory body on cutting government costs - led by Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
The president proclaimed that "America's sovereignty is under attack", and declared it to be a national emergency that allows him to free up more funding to reinforce the border with Mexico, per the outlet.
He also ordered that officials deny the right to citizenship to the children of migrants either in the US illegally or on temporary visas.
Trump declared that the US will only recognize "two sexes, male and female. These sexes are not changeable and are grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible reality", per BBC.
He further signed a directive postponing by 75 days the implementation of a law that would ban Chinese-owned app TikTok in the US unless a new American owner takes over the company.
