Vance: Biden Made America More Dependent on Middle Eastern Lowly Dictators With the Green Scam! J. Dee Vance, Donald Trump's vice president, criticized the environmental policy of the Joe Biden government, calling it a "green fraud" and claiming that the shutdown of 20% of the US West Coast refineries in the Biden administration increased the country's dependence on what he called "the despicable dictators of the Middle East."