Mic catches JD Vance complaining about Donald Trump during speech to Congress

Following the re-emergence of a social media video compilation of JD Vance slamming Donald Trump prior to accepting the position as the Vice President, the politician has suffered another 'oops' moment.

A microphone this week accidentally caught Vance, 40, poking fun at his 78-year-old Republican boss during an appearance at the front of Congress on Tuesday (4 March) ahead of Trump's speech.

HOT MIC MOMENT:

VP J.D. Vance: "I think the speech is going to be great, but I don't know how you do this for 90 minutes."

House Speaker Mike Johnson: "The hardest thing was doing it during Biden when the speech was a stupid campaign speech." pic.twitter.com/aYwejBzHUk

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Father-of-five Trump made his debut speech to lawmakers yesterday following his inauguration in January, and his four-year break from the White House.

The President laid out his key objectives for his upcoming term, paying particular attention to trade tariffs and the situation in Ukraine.

During the event, chatting with speaker Mike Johnson in Congress, JD Vance was caught in a hot mic, giving a rather brutal take on Trump's speech-making skills.

After speaking for several minutes ahead of Trump's arrival to the podium, the pair seemed not to realise the microphone standing before them had been switched on.

"By the way, I think the speech is going to be great," the recording hears Vance say of Trump, before adding: "But I don't know how you do this for 90 minutes."

Johnson then replies: "The hardest thing was doing it during Biden", before pushing the microphone down, seemingly only just realising it may have been activated.

"When his speech was a stupid campaign speech", he added.

Arguably even more interesting, is that Vance then told Johnson: "Man, I've got to be honest...", before leaning in to the speaker's ear, obscuring the tea he was inevitably about to spill.

As we say, the latest scandal comes as a controversial video has been doing the rounds on social media, seeing Vance relentlessly slam Trump.

The TikTok clip starts with Vance promising during an RNC interview in July: "I will be a vice president that never forgets where he came from."

After the video subsequently fades to black, with a tagline of words reading: "Weird. Here's where JD Vance came from."

A series of other clips filmed years prior then follow, including one which sees a beardless Vance declaring: "I never liked him."

Another saw the father-of-three admitting ahead of an earlier election: "I don't know who I'm going to vote for - I'm definitely not going to vote for Trump."

A third clip hears him confess: "My current plan is to vote either third-party or, as I joke to my wife, I might write in my dog", while a fourth goes on to hear him claiming: "What Trump is, is just another opioid."

"I can't stomach Trump," a radio clip goes on to hear the now-vice president admit. "I think that he's obnoxious and is leading the white working class to a very dark place."