Trump VP Vance Keeps Reporters Away From Fishing Photo Op On Foreign Trip

Vice President JD Vance kept the White House press pool away as he fished with a senior government official, but posed for a photo staged for the one photographer who was allowed access.

Vance went fishing with United Kingdom Foreign Secretary David Lammy at his stately Chevening House residence before their scheduled bilateral meeting.

According to a pool report, one Reuters photographer was invited to capture the moment while the rest of the pool was kept away:

The official bilateral meeting has not started yet.

But ahead of the meeting, Vance and Lammy just went carp finishing in the pond behind Chevening House. However, no fish were caught.

“They were both in a very good mood about it,” an official with knowledge of the fishing expedition told your pooler.

A Reuters photographer was invited to capture the outing. Your pooler saw an initial photo filed and the two men appeared to be sharing a laugh as the vice president held a fishing pole. The rest of pool was not allowed to watch.

In the photo, Vance was wearing jeans and a dark blue button down shirt, and the foreign secretary was in a short-sleeved button down shirt.

Pool is still in a holding room for the meeting. We have been told it’s unlikely they will answer questions.

White House Pool Photo/Reuters

As it turned out, Vance did speak to reporters and answered questions briefly with Secretary Lammy, and broke his chops about not catching any fish.

“Unfortunately, the one strain on the special relationship is that all of my kids caught a fish, but the Foreign Secretary and I did not,” Vance said.

When a reporter asked him about Trump calling him a 2028 frontrunner, the VP cracked that he didn’t want to discuss “lowly things” in such a fancy house and gave a fairly standard dodge:

REPORTER: Mr. Vice President, what do you make of President Trump‘s comments this week about you’re the likely front runner in 2028?

VICE PRESIDENT JD VANCE: (LAUGHS) I don’t want to talk about lowly things like politics in this grand house. Come on. Look. I think my view on the politics of 2028 is I’m not really focused even on the election in 2026 much less one two years after that. And if we do a good job for the American people, the politics will take care of itself.

Watch above via the White House travel press pool.

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