Vice President JD Vance sharply rebuked political commentator Nick Fuentes over the weekend after Fuentes used an ethnic slur to insult Vance’s wife, Usha Vance.
“Let me be clear. Anyone who attacks my wife, whether their name is Jen Psaki or Nick Fuentes, can eat [expletive],” Vance told UnHerd. “That’s my official policy as vice president of the United States.”
Fuentes, a far-right white nationalist, reportedly called Vance a “race traitor” for marrying a woman of Indian descent during one of his livestreams, according to USA Today.
Meanwhile, Jen Psaki — the former White House press secretary under Joe Biden — suggested in October on the “I’ve Had It” podcast that the second lady needs rescuing from her husband.
“I always wonder what’s going on in the mind of his wife,” Psaki said. “Like, are you OK? Please blink four times. Come over here, we’ll save you.”
Usha Vance is the first Indian American second lady in U.S. history. She earned a bachelor’s degree in history from Yale University and later obtained a master’s degree from the University of Cambridge, where she was a Gates Cambridge Scholar.
While studying at Yale Law School in 2010, she met Vance when they joined a discussion group on “social decline in white America,” the BBC reported.
The couple married in Kentucky in 2014 and have three children: Ewan, Vivek and Mirabel.
During the 2024 campaign, Usha Vance faced racist online remarks from far-right social media users, ABC News wrote.
Vance was also criticized for appearing to dismiss his wife’s Hindu faith while discussing his conversion to Catholicism at a Turning Point event in October.
After the backlash, ABC News said Vance wrote on X, “My Christian faith tells me the Gospel is true and is good for human beings. My wife — as I said at the TPUSA — is the most amazing blessing I have in my life. She herself encouraged me to reengage with my faith many years ago.”
