Hot mic captures JD Vance’s one criticism before Donald Trump’s address to Congress

Vice President JD Vance and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson had a nice little joke before Donald Trump’s first joint session of Congress.

Yesterday (March 4), Donald Trump addressed Congress for his first joint session since becoming the 47th President of the United States.

And while he and Vice President JD Vance may’ve put on a strong united front in their bulldogging of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy when the head of Ukraine visited the White House’s Oval Office last week, that didn’t stop Vance making a snide comment ahead of Trump’s address.

A clip from the session shows vice president Vance greeting House Speaker Mike Johnson, the latter joking the pair ‘didn’t wear the same tie’.

Vance responds: “We could have coordinated I guess, but…”

The vice president then notes he’s ‘gotta be honest’ with Johnson, leaning in to his ear to whisper to him, whatever he says not quite picked up.

Leaning back out, he adds: “By the way, I think the speech is going to be great. But I don’t know how you do this for 90 minutes.”

Pushing down a microphone in front of the pair midway through speaking, Johnson responds: “The hardest thing was doing it during Biden, when his speech was a stupid campaign speech.”

Alas, for all those involved, Trump’s speech actually lasted longer than 90 minutes, going on to become the longest in at least 60 years.