Vice President JD Vance made a promise on the campaign trail to bring the Make America Healthy Again movement to the mainstream. He’s keeping it.
Vance is installing the first-ever chicken coop on the grounds of the Naval Observatory, the historic Washington, D.C. residence that has housed America’s second family for half a century. Vance says the the Make America Healthy Again movement helped send the Trump-Vance ticket to the White House has convinced him to eat more fresh eggs.
And how better to get fresh eggs daily than from your own chicken coup?
The coop was built by Carolina Coops, a family-owned North Carolina company. True to the Naval Observatory’s dignity, the structure was designed to architecturally match the grand historic residence on its grounds. No taxpayer dollars were spent on the project.
During the 2024 campaign, Vance stopped at a Pennsylvania supermarket and casually dropped a line that his kids ate more than a dozen eggs every day.
“These guys actually eat about 14 eggs every single morning, is that right?” he joked, nodding toward his kids.
Running to the store multiple times a week for eggs is a thing of the past at One Observatory Circle. The Vances’ new chickens will handle much of that from now on.
Carolina Coops is no stranger to Washington’s conservative world. The company built a chicken coop for Fox News host Sean Duffy, now President Trump’s Transportation Secretary. They also appeared on Fox & Friends Weekend in February last year to discuss the benefits of backyard chickens as egg prices soared.
The Naval Observatory coop marks a first in the 50-year history of the vice presidential residence, and the addition of a chicken coup is a fitting symbol for a second family that has made healthy, traditional living central to their political identity.