JD Vance, the US vice-president, says he is ‘focused on trying to do God’s work’ Credit: Getty Images / Saul Loeb
Show biography
Published 03 September 2026 12:34pm BST
JD Vance has claimed that the antichrist may be “walking among us”, and said the world may be living through the “end times”.
The US vice-president made the comments during a podcast interview with Bryce Crawford, 22, an evangelical Christian with more than a million YouTube followers.
While promoting his new book Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith, Mr Vance said he was “trying to focus on doing as much of God’s work as possible”.
He said: “Do I think that we’re in the end times? I don’t know. I think that it’s probably bad for me spiritually to focus too much on it. There are things about the world that make me feel not shocked if the antichrist was walking among us.
“I tend to think that while I wouldn’t be shocked if we are living in the end times, what I’m trying to focus on is doing as much of God’s work as possible right now, and that if that leads to the end times, OK.”
The vice-president was speaking to evangelical Christian and YouTube star Bryce Crawford, 22 Credit: YouTube
Literal readings of the “end times” hold that an antichrist will rise to power, turn against God and persecute believers before Jesus returns.
Asked another question on the “end times”, Mr Vance described a friend whose wife had turned to an AI chatbot for counselling, only to realise it agreed with everything she wrote.
Literal readings of the “end times” hold that an antichrist will rise to power, turn against God and persecute believers before Jesus returns.
Asked another question on the “end times”, Mr Vance described a friend whose wife had turned to an AI chatbot for counselling, only to realise it agreed with everything she wrote.
