Vice President JD Vance has the same nasty view of race-baiting activist Nick Fuentes and MS NOW host Jen Psaki ― when it comes to what they’ve said about his wife, Usha Vance.
“Let me be clear, anyone who attacks my wife, whether their name is Jen Psaki or Nick Fuentes, can eat shit,” Vance told the British political site UnHerd for Monday’s edition. “That’s my official policy as vice president of the United States.”
During the 2024 presidential race, Fuentes chimed in about Vance and his wife, whose parents moved from India to the U.S. in 1970s. “Who is this guy, really?” Fuentes said. “Do we really expect that the guy who has an Indian wife and named their kid Vivek is going to support white identity?”
Psaki, who was the press secretary for ex-President Joe Biden, didn’t really attack Usha Vance but did comment wryly on their marriage and the veep’s appeal.
“I always wonder what’s going on in the mind of [Vance’s] wife. Like, are you OK? Please blink four times. Come over here. We’ll save you,” Psaki said on the “I’ve Had It” podcast in October. Vance called the remark “disgraceful.”
Vance himself later got slammed for saying he hoped his wife, who is Hindu, would someday share his Christian viewpoint. An appearance by Usha Vance without her wedding ring also got tongues wagging a short time after that.
On Sunday, Vance tried to tiptoe diplomatically around whether Fuentes and other extremists should be embraced in conservative circles.
“When I say that I’m going to fight alongside of you, I mean all of you — each and every one,” the vice president said at Turning Point USA’s annual conference. “President Trump did not build the greatest coalition in politics by running his supporters through endless, self-defeating purity tests.”