 PolitiFact reported that as recently as 2016, Vance texted a friend, I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical a-hole like Nixon, who wouldn't be that bad and might even prove useful, or that he's America's Hitler. The New York Times cited a description of Donald Trump by Vance as a kind of cultural heroine. Stating the obvious in a Fox News interview Monday, the new vice presidential candidate told host Sean Hannity he's changed his mind about the president.