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It's a rough time for JD And Usha Vance. As we all all aware, he's had three names in his adult life. He used to call Trump America's Hitler. Now he's his vice president. He is used to be pro immigration, now he hates immigrants. He thinks they're eating dogs and cats. So let's just take a little walk of what's recently been going on with JD And Usha Vance who have been in the news a because of their marriage. And I just want to remind Everybody, this was J.D. vance at the time he was married. And the Tweeter says when J.D. vance hit his lowest, it was his Hindu wife and her Hindu upbringing that helped him navigate through the tough times. Today, in a position of power, her religion has become a liability. What a fall. What an epic fall for the man. And that's something that MAGA has a real hard time tolerating and that is that he is not married to a white woman. We've seen the backlash. We've seen his very tepid responses to that. But that's who he was at one point before he went to Peter Thiel's Queer Eye camp. And then here we have these pictures that were posted of him purporting to yell at her in a restaurant with her hands down. And he's yelling at her now. He hits back. According to the Daily Mail, JD Vance hits back over wild claim he was caught yelling at his wife Usha in a restaurant. So these pictures are all over the Internet like the couch was all over the Internet. So you can find these images on Elon Musk's Free speech social media. But it also highlights that Usha Vance has been recently seen at public events without her wedding ring. And then who can forget the Charlie Kirk memorial when ERICA Kirk and J.D. vance had such a warm embrace. And this just kind of all sits in the background of all the changes that JD Vance has made and what a position that he has failed to protect his Indian wife and his mixed race children.
Pump
Yeah. You know, when I think about the Erica KIRK Embrace of J.D. vance, I want to propose it to you and the listener the following way. Let's say that something happened to former President Obama and then within 30, 45 days, Michelle Obama is embracing Gavin Newsom like that on stage, grabbing the back of his hair like that and pulling him close. And, and I don't care the way women dress that, you know, some people were saying her leather pants and all that, and if she was wear leather pants, I don't care, you know, I don't think Erica Kirk is an unattractive woman and she wants to Dr. However she wants to. I'm not going to critique that, but what I do want to critique is a little bit of how the people on the right do all of this weird shit and then we call it out as weird and then they're triggered, you know, Snowflake City. But just think about, think about the optics. If Michelle Obama embraced Gavin Newsom like that, can you imagine what the meltdown would be?
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No. Can you imagine if Barack Obama had not defended Michelle Obama to his base, if his base was lashing out? Now, of course, the Republicans lashed out at her all the time, but he only has tepid defenses of his wife. And I find it to be so offensive. You know what I mean?
Pump
Like, it's just a thing too.
P
Can't protect his. Why? You know, it's like, stand up for your wife. You.
Pump
You know that Vivek Ramaswamy and you and I covered the election pretty closely. And he went to a caf? In rural America and basically this older white rural couple sitting at this diner told him straight to his face they wouldn't vote for him because he was brown and he still is maga, you know, so it's just, I, I don't. The whole phenomenon of Scott Besant, who thinks he's the magic homo that's going to be exempt from this to Cash Patel, all of that is so. It's, it's fascinating. I think they have internalized homophobia, internalized racism, etc. But as it pertains to JD Vance, JD Vance is a prostitute. I think it probably at some point, maybe he loved Usha and he had like a trans roommate and he was maybe a Republican, but not a prick, not a sociopathic prick like he is now. But then he goes off and he gets money and Peter Till changes him in a lot of ways that I hope are revealed in a tell all book at a later date. I'll be the first one to buy it. But something is really broken in this person where now he thinks in terms of Usha being a political liability. And Erica Kirk is still on her tour, Fox News, and all of these places right now. And she's talking about how they've endorsed Turning Point. Turning point is endorsing J.D. vance. And J.D. vance, to me, is the biggest prostitute in American politics. Like, if somebody like somebody really, really wealthy, I think, came and gave him like $200 million to not be homophobic, to not be anti immigrant, I think he'd be like, okay, sure, I'll do it. He has no core principles. And I remember the, the just deafening silence at the RNC when Usha gave a speech and she spoke about being vegetarian. And this is the political party. This is the political party where like Ted Cruz, one of his videos was like, kamala Harris, you're not taking my cheeseburger. And he's like dead serious. Like, that's such a burned accommodate. Like, first of all, Ted, nobody's going to take your cheeseburger away from you. Quiet, piggy.
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All right.
Pump
You know, I mean, and so it, that was, it was just deafening silence and just, I think sadly, probably best for Usha to get away from all of this. I don't know what's going on. To me, I have empathy for her because I think it may be like a battered wife and maybe it slowly happened, I don't know. But there's something clearly really severely wrong with J.D. man. Something, bro. Something was broken in him when he went off to Peter Till's gay camp and came back $15 million richer and then ran for Senate. Something is fundamentally broken in him.
P
I completely agree. And here's the thing at he was writing for his law review pro IM immigration essays. And then he comes out and this is the administration. He is where Kristi Noem has people face covered in American cities. I mean, it's bananas. And then there's a famous quote. So remember in an interview he was talking about Usha and his quote was. And so I fact checked it because I've seen it repeated over and over again when he says, so the fact checked of JD Vance said of his wife, obviously she's not a white person. And so what his response was, and might I remind you, this is because he wanted women to be stay at home mothers and was talking poorly about childless cat ladies. His wife has a degree from Yale. She is a law school graduate. But he is like up here going, yes, we need women to be stay at home mothers. So Vance was responding to claims he supported only white stay at home moms. His full comments were, I love my wife so much. I love her because she's who she is. Obviously she's not a white person and we've been accused and attacked by white supremacists all over that. But I just love Usha, She's a good mom. Why didn't he take this time to say, if you are a Republican and you are a racist, we don't have space for you?
Pump
I'll tell you why. Pumps. He is a prostitute. He is a prostitute.
P
J.D.
Pump
Vance is a. He is a political. There's. He will, he will throw his wife, he will throw his kids, he will throw his country. Whatever they need for him to do, he's your guy, he's your boy. Friday, just throw in some eyeliner so that when he gets home from work he can cross dress because that's where I think he wants to be. We have to remember this guy is a failed drag queen. And I know everybody thinks, oh, that's funny. No, he seriously was. He wanted to be a drag queen. He failed. He was not very good at drag. So this guy has been broken along the way. He came from a home, whereas mother was an addict, an opioid addict, which I have so much empathy for. And typically when you're exposed to addiction and then some form of recovery and solution beyond that, it makes you a deeper, more empathetic person, less judgmental. I know me, I'm a lot less judgmental after what I've gone through with my husband and his opioid addiction to people that are addicts and have had problems. The only thing I don't get are these the people I'm about to describe and pumps. You know, these people like pumps. And I know a guy, he had six or seven DUIs, fucked hookers, horrible, horrible things happened to him. Got sober, good for him. Amazing, awesome. Now judgmental triple trump or gun tote maga person. Like some people are incapable of, of growth even when they themselves have been the biggest sack of before. And I just think JD Vance is one of these people that just must be incapable of growth. Maybe he had some situational growth, right. But he wasn't able to sustain it. And I feel, you know, I, I feel kind of bad for Usha, but I mean, yes and no. I mean, you know, there's. I, I can't relate to it because when I would see if I as an immigrant, she hurt she from through my family of immigrants. Everything in me is the type of person that stands up and fights for marginalized people. Like with everything in me. And so maybe I don't feel bad for her. I don't know. I'll have to think on that and I'll report back to the group.
P
I vacillate on it because I married somebody that wasn't who I thought he was and I. So I have some empathy with her that I can relate to. Like she married this man and he has done several 180s and now is, I'm hoping a completely different person.
Pump
Here's the thing P here's what we have to do. This isn't just she married him right now she sees that he's part of an active bigotry by government. He's part of murder for sport by the government. He's part of these masked agents and alligator Alcatraz and sending people. So I don't feel bad for her because if I'm supposed to hold everyone to a standard that you're you need to do something about this. To your point, pump she is educated at Harvard. I think probably a lot of psychologists would come back and say, well, this is what happens. Maybe she has like Stockholm syndrome or battered wife syndrome. And if that's the case, then I do feel for her. But I would think if you saw your husband being mean to immigrants and your parents are immigrants, that would be a pretty overwhelming red flag that you couldn't ignore and that your kids don't look the way the Stephen Millers of the world and the Elon Musk of the world think American kids should look. J.D. vance's kids don't look like what they think now. I think all mixed kids to me are like, oh my God, how cool do these kids look like? I think it's fabulous. But MAGA does not.
P
Right?
Pump
They do.
P
They do not. So anyway, we'll stay on top of this for you. Please like this video. Subscribe to our channel channel and we will be back with more news.
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Podcast: IHIP News
Hosts: Jennifer Welch & Angie “Pumps” Sullivan
Episode: JD Vance & Usha's Marriage is Collapsing As She Ditches the Wedding Ring?
Date: December 14, 2025
In this episode, progressive hosts Jennifer Welch (“P”) and Angie “Pumps” Sullivan dive into recent controversies surrounding JD Vance, his shifting political stances, and the public spectacle of his marriage to Usha Vance. With their trademark mix of humor and candor, they discuss the personal and political fallout of Vance's rise in the MAGA movement, explore the optics of public images and reported marital issues, and critically examine what these developments signify for politics and social norms in red-state America.
This episode uses biting humor and pointed analogies to critique both JD Vance’s personal and political evolution and the broader cultural dynamics of the American right. The hosts mix empathy for Usha Vance with frustration at her continued complicity, driving home the ongoing tension between personal loyalty and public principle. The episode is both a comedic takedown and an earnest meditation on what happens when identity, politics, and family collide in public view.