The Vice President just announced his Halloween costume for this year!

Vice President JD Vance on X the Vice President’s official account2026-10-30

The Vice President just announced his Halloween costume for this year! "If you think about it, with the beard, the white hair, its kind of like fat, old JD, so I feel very comfortable in my Dumbledore costume." 😂😂

Posted on X 2026-10-30 by @VP · View on X →

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Mr. Vice President, Halloween is this Saturday Last year you dressed up as Fat J.D so I have to ask if you and if you and President Trump went trick-or-treating together this year what would you two dress up as? And like you told us in that video remember to say thank you So thank you for taking my question so So I, me and my kids get really into Halloween and if, it's funny, if the president and I went together the president doesn't strike me as somebody who loves to dress up but if he really wanted to scare the neighborhood children he would dress up as Abdul El-Sayed the far-left Democrat from Michigan I actually already have my costume you know, my kids are really into Harry Potter and so I'm going in I'm going as Dumbledore which if you think about it with the beard, the white hair it's kind of like fat old shady so I feel very comfortable very comfortable in my Dumbledore costume but we're really excited about it When you have four little kids Halloween is a lot of fun Thank you. Great

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The Vice President just announced his Halloween costume for this year! "If you think about it, with the beard, the white hair, its kind of like fat, old JD, so I feel very comfortable in my Dumbledore costume." 😂😂

Mr. Vice President, Halloween is this Saturday Last year you dressed up as Fat J.D so I have to ask if you and if you and President Trump went trick-or-treating together this year what would you two dress up as? And like you told us in that video remember to say thank you So thank you for taking my question so So I, me and my kids get really into Halloween and if, it's funny, if the president and I went together the president doesn't strike me as somebody who loves to dress up but if he really wanted to scare the neighborhood children he would dress up as Abdul El-Sayed the far-left Democrat from Michigan I actually already have my costume you know, my kids are really into Harry Potter and so I'm going in I'm going as Dumbledore which if you think about it with the beard, the white hair it's kind of like fat old shady so I feel very comfortable very comfortable in my Dumbledore costume but we're really excited about it When you have four little kids Halloween is a lot of fun Thank you. Great

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