If JD Vance is sworn in as Donald Trump’s vice-president on January 20, 2025, he will, at 40 years and five months, be the youngest occupant of that office since Richard Nixon in 1953, and the third youngest in US history.
Only three days ago, Trump — officially nominated yesterday at the party’s national convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin — narrowly escaped assassination at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Long convinced he is the victim of systematic persecution, he now presents himself as the indispensable strongman who cheated death — chosen by God to fulfil his destiny.
