JD Vance Hits Back After His Wife Smeared by Jen Psaki

Former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki ignited backlash this week after making a series of personal and mocking remarks about Vice President JD Vance and his wife, Usha, during an appearance on the I’ve Had It podcast.

Psaki, who now hosts a show on MSNBC, joined hosts Jennifer Welch and Angie “Pumps” Sullivan to discuss Vance’s political future — but quickly veered into personal territory.

“I think the little Manchurian candidate JD Vance wants to be president more than anything else,” Psaki sneered, accusing the vice president of being “willing to do anything to get there.”

“He’s scarier in certain ways,” she added. “He’s a chameleon who makes himself into whatever he thinks the audience wants to hear from him.”

The former Biden spokeswoman mocked Vance as having “no rizz” — internet slang for lacking charisma — and claimed he “just is a little odd.”

“Trump’s odd in a different way,” Psaki said, in a comment meant to contrast President Donald J. Trump’s authenticity with Vance’s supposed artificiality.

Psaki then took an even more personal jab, targeting Vance’s marriage. “I always wonder what’s going on in the mind of his wife,” she said. “Like, ‘Are you OK? Blink four times. Come over here, we’ll save you.’”

Her comments about Usha Vance, a Yale Law graduate and the mother of the couple’s three children, immediately drew widespread condemnation across social media — with critics accusing Psaki of sexist double standards and left-wing hypocrisy.

Vice President Vance brushed off the insults with class, praising his wife in his measured response Thursday.

“I think it’s disgraceful, but of course the second lady can speak for herself,” Vance said. “I am very lucky to have a wonderful wife, and I know — at least I hope — that my wife feels the same about me. I’m honored to have Usha by my side.”

White House Communications Director Steven Cheung slammed Psaki for projecting her own bitterness onto others.

He blasted her online, writing that Psaki was “transferring her own personal issues onto others,” and derisively referring to her as “Jen Psucki,” calling her a “dumba** who has no comprehension of the truth and has to overcompensate for her lack of talent by saying untrue things.”

“Circle back on that, moron,” Cheung quipped, echoing Psaki’s infamous White House phrase.

Conservative accounts joined in. Libs of TikTok declared that MSNBC “should be ashamed to pay her salary,” while commentator Link Lauren added that Psaki and former Biden press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre “are in competition this week to see who can be the worst press secretary.”

Lauren noted, “Both are on press tours. Both are utter calamities.”

Jean-Pierre, now back in the spotlight defending President Biden’s cognitive decline, didn’t help her case. During appearances on CBS Mornings and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, she insisted Biden “had the mental acuity” to govern — despite public concerns following a series of visibly confused public moments.

“The man that I saw nearly every day was someone who was engaging, understood policy, and was always putting the American people first,” Jean-Pierre said.

Colbert wasn’t convinced, responding, “In a moment of great pressure on stage, we saw someone shock us and worry us. Nothing could assuage that worry.”

Psaki’s mean-spirited comments — combined with Jean-Pierre’s tone-deaf defense of Biden — underscore what conservatives have long observed: a media and political class willing to mock and smear opponents rather than debate ideas, all while circling the wagons for their own.