Years before becoming Donald Trump’s vice president, JD Vance suggested that Trump might be “America’s Hitler.” That may have been his last truthful moment. Now he’s one of Dear Leader’s most prolific liars, and most of his lies tend to be whoppers. He outdid himself last week while arguing that his boss was negotiating an honorable end to his disastrous war with Iran:

If you go back to World War II, if you go back to World War I, if you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all end with some kind of negotiation.

My neighbor Swamp Rabbit was appalled. “This dude went to Yale but he’s an ignoramus. I guess he didn’t take no history courses.”

He was revisiting our recent “are they willfully ignorant or just stupid?” debate. I told him that Vance only pretends to be an ignoramus. He surely knows World II ended with the unconditional surrender of Germany and Japan to allied forces. “He’s a big phony who enjoys lying,” I said.

My favorite Vance lie is from September 2024, when he repeatedly told the media that Haitian immigrants in Ohio were stealing and eating pet owners’ dogs. When he finally had to admit this was a lie, he said, “If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that’s what I’m going to do.”

That tells you all you need to know about the guy who’s next in line for the presidency.

Footnote: Still waiting for Victor Cortez, Swamp Rabbit’s parole officer, to issue a verdict on whether it’s fair to refer to Vance as Trump’s Herman Goering.