JD Vance Is Rooting for Taylor Swift & Travis Kelce After Engagement News: ‘I’m a Romantic’

JD Vance can’t resist a good love story. Despite his and Taylor Swift‘s political differences, the vice president offered words of congratulations after finding out about her recent engagement to Travis Kelce.

While speaking to USA Today at the White House on Wednesday (Aug. 27), Vance expressed that he’s rooting for the happy couple, who announced their plans to get married the day prior. “I’m a romantic when I see two people who are in love getting married,” he began.

“I just wish ’em the best, and I congratulate ’em,” Vance continued. “I hope they have a very long and healthy and happy life together.”

That said, the former senator also remarked that he thinks “by and large, people want politicians to focus on politics, and they want celebrities to focus on whatever it is that made them famous, whether it’s singing or dancing or acting.”

Ironically, Donald Trump has focused his energies on pop cultural figures such as Swift — people whom Vance probably wouldn’t consider to have a place in politics — countless times throughout his two presidential terms. Taking a particular interest in the Eras Tour headliner over the past year, he’s done everything from mock Swift for getting booed at the 2025 Super Bowl to declaring on Truth Social, “I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT,” although he did also share words of congratulations after hearing about her engagement to the Kansas City Chiefs tight end.

“Well, I wish them a lot of luck,” the twice-impeached POTUS said during a cabinet meeting on the day of Swift and Kelce’s announcement. “I think he’s a great player, I think he’s a great guy, and she’s a terrific person, so I wish them a lot of luck.”

The leader of the free world and his second in command are far from the only people who have chimed in on the famous couple’s engagement. After the pair shared photos of Kelce’s romantic rose-garden proposal and Swift’s enormous diamond engagement ring, they were met with an overwhelmingly positive response from friends and fans — and even some critics, Megyn Kelly included — online.

“I am not a Taylor Swift fan for many reasons, but I respect the empire she has built,” the Megyn Kelly Show host wrote on her website following the news. “With Taylor Swift being an American billionaire who is not even 40, I think it is great that she finally found love. I really do. I am rooting for them. I don’t think it is a coincidence that the person she ultimately decided to settle down with is a real man, is a football player, is a tough guy who doesn’t really take a lot of s–t from people.”