‘I think JD Vance is jealous’: Fox News Trolls JD Vance after Trump–Madammi Oval Office Incident

New York, NY – The Oval Office meeting between President Donald Trump and New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani on Friday has spawned not just endless memes and millions of views across social media, but now a cheeky jab from Fox News host Brian Kilmeade aimed squarely at Vice President JD Vance.

In a segment on Fox & Friends Saturday morning, Kilmeade quipped that Vance might be “jealous” of the “fantastic” rapport Trump struck with the democratic socialist Mamdani — a man Trump once called a “100% Communist Lunatic” and threatened to defund the city over.

“I think JD Vance is jealous,” Kilmeade said with a smirk. “I think the president wants to use [Mamdani] as a running mate. They got along fantastic.”

The comment, delivered with Kilmeade’s signature mix of humor and edge, landed like a playful gut punch to the 41-year-old vice president, who has spent the past year positioning himself as Trump’s natural heir.

Of course, with Trump constitutionally barred from a third term, the “running mate” line is pure satire — but it shows the awkward optics of the president cozying up to a man whose platform includes rent freezes, police reform, and labeling Trump a “fascist despot.”

The Meeting That No One Saw Coming

For context, Trump’s November 21 Oval Office sit-down with Mamdani was the political equivalent of oil and water deciding to mix.

The 34-year-old former state assemblyman, son of Ugandan immigrants and a self-avowed democratic socialist, had spent the 2025 mayoral race as Trump’s personal punching bag.

The president called him “the most dangerous man in America,” a “radical Muslim Marxist,” and vowed to withhold all federal funding from New York if he won. Mamdani hit back hard, branding Trump “a fascist dictator-in-waiting who betrayed the country” and promising to turn City Hall into “the headquarters of the resistance.”

Mamdani’s landslide 58–42% victory over Andrew Cuomo on November 4 was a stinging rebuke, and Trump’s initial response was pure vintage Trump: “Sad day for New York — we’ll see you in court.” Yet by November 15, the president was extending an olive branch, inviting Mamdani for a “productive conversation about the future of our great city.”

The 45-minute meeting yielded no major policy wins, but the post-meeting press spray produced the gold. When reporters asked Mamdani if he stood by calling Trump a “despot” pushing a “fascist agenda,” the mayor-elect started a diplomatic sidestep about “shared purpose.”

Trump cut in with a chuckle: “I’ve been called much worse than a despot. Believe me. So it’s not that insulting.”

Then Fox’s Jacqui Heinrich followed up: “Mr. Mayor-elect, do you still consider the president a fascist?” Mamdani opened his mouth for another careful answer, but Trump interrupted again, patted his arm, and said: “That’s OK, you can just say yes. It’s easier than explaining it. I don’t mind.”

Mamdani paused, smiled, shrugged, and replied: “OK.”

Trump laughed heartily, gave him another pat, and added: “See? We’re getting along great. Beautiful.”

The room dissolved into laughter and applause. Cameras clicked furiously. And in that surreal instant, two men who embodied the extremes of American politics — the billionaire populist and the socialist organizer — turned a potential powder keg into a punchline.

Kilmeade: That’s what we just watched. I think JD Vance is jealous. I think the president wants to use him as a running mate. They got along fantastic. pic.twitter.com/ejwErga8Bh

— Acyn (@Acyn) November 21, 2025

Kilmeade’s JD Vance Jab–“Jealous” or Just Jealousy?

Kilmeade’s Saturday morning riff on Fox & Friends was the first major media response to the clip, and he didn’t waste time landing a haymaker on the vice president.

“I think JD Vance is jealous,” Kilmeade said, smirking. “I think the president wants to use [Mamdani] as a running mate. They got along fantastic.”

The line drew chuckles from co-hosts Steve Doocy and Ainsley Earhardt, but it cut deeper than it seemed.

Vance, 41, has spent the past 18 months grooming himself as Trump’s heir apparent, touring red states with fire-and-brimstone speeches about “fighting the deep state” and “saving America from socialism.”

Vance is the man Trump picked to balance the ticket in 2024, the Yale-educated venture capitalist turned populist warrior who’s supposed to carry the MAGA torch into 2028.

Seeing Trump — the self-proclaimed dealmaker who never forgets a slight — laughing and arm-patting with Mamdani, the very symbol of everything Vance rails against, must sting.

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Vance’s lone X post about the meeting was tepid: “POTUS has a lot of good moments, but this is an all-timer.”

Mamdani, asked about the exchange while leaving a Queens community center Friday evening, gave a one-word answer: “Wild.” Later, he posted on X: “Interesting day. Still a socialist. Still not deporting anyone. Also, still believe in housing as a human right. But yeah, the man said I could call him whatever. So… OK.” He followed with a single raised-eyebrow emoji.