 J.D. Vance made some of his most forceful attacks on Trump during media interviews promoting his successful 2016 memoir, Hillbilly Elegy. Vance called himself a never-Trump guy and said he didn't vote for him in 2016. And in August 2016, New York Times op-ed headlined Why Trump's Anti-War Message Resonates with White America, Vance wrote, Mr. Trump is unfit for our nation's highest office.