Breaking news:Trump encouraged Vance to respond diplomatically when asked about Musk. Here’s how it played in real time: See more

Vice President JD Vance rolled his eyes when shown during a podcast taping Elon Musk’s suggestion that President Donald Trump should be impeached and Vance should replace him.

“Oh, my God,” Vance said, sipping Celsius while sitting across from comedian and podcaster Theo Von. “See, this is what I’m talking about.”

What are you talking about — campaigning?” Von joked.

But Vance didn’t take the bait, or even risk joking about the possibility of taking power from Trump.

“This stuff is just not helpful,” Vance said of Musk, who turned criticism of Trump’s domestic policy agenda into bitter personal attacks, this jab specifically appearing to pit the president and Vance against each other.

“Politics is a place where people stab each other in the back. You can’t get anything done, unless you’re all on the same team and you’re actually committed to getting stuff done together,” Vance continued. “The idea that … the president should be impeached — I’m sorry, it’s insane.”

As Musk was adding fuel to the flames of the escalating fight Thursday, Vance was taping a podcast with Von in Nashville at Trump ally Kid Rock’s new restaurant and was forced to respond in real time.

Vance was shown for the first time Musk’s post accusing Trump, without evidence, of being in the “Epstein files.”

Reading the post on the monitor, Vance said, “I haven’t even seen this one.”

“Jeez, man,” Vance said, letting out a breath.

“Presumably when this comes out, people are going to know more about this than even I do, because this kinda happened on the plane when I was coming on down here,” he said during the interview, which was released Saturday morning.

Before Vance flew to Nashville to tape the podcast, the vice president was in the Oval Office sitting to Trump’s left when reporters peppered the president with questions about Musk’s criticism of his “one big, beautiful bill.” A source familiar said Trump and Vance had multiple conversations throughout the day Thursday and that Trump encouraged Vance to speak diplomatically about Musk when asked about him publicly.

Vance first defended Trump against the Epstein allegations, saying in the podcast, “Absolutely not. Donald Trump didn’t do anything wrong with Jeffrey Epstein.”

“Whatever the Democrats and the media says about them, that’s totally BS,” Vance added.