Vice President J.D. Vance slams Psaki's 'disgraceful' claim that wife Usha

WASHINGTON (TNND) — Vice President J.D. Vance called Jen Psaki’s comments that his wife was being held captive and needed to be saved from him, “disgraceful.”

Reporters asked the Vice President for his response to Psaki’s comment while on a tarmac heading back to the United States after a two day trip to Israel. His wife, Second Lady Usha Vance, accompanied him.

“I think it’s disgraceful, but of course the second lady can speak for herself, and I’m very lucky to have a wonderful wife,” Vance said.

“And I know—or at least I hope—that my wife feels the same about me. I’m very lucky to go on this journey with a very loving wife. We’re going to keep on serving the country together and I’m honored to have Usha by my side, on this trip in particular, but always.”

Psaki, who served as former President Joe Biden’s White House press secretary, made the comments about Vance and Usha on the “I’ve Had It” podcast.

“I always wonder what’s going on in the mind of his wife,” Psaki said, referring to the Second Lady. “Like, are you OK? Please blink four times. Come over here, we’ll save you.”

Psaki also called Vance the “Manchurian candidate”, a reference to the 2004 film, in which the Vice President candidate is actually a puppet for an enemy power. Psaki that Vance “wants to be president more than anything else.”

“And that he’s willing to do anything to get there,” Psaki said. “And your whole iteration you just outlined, I mean, he’s scarier in certain ways in some ways. And he’s young and ambitious and agile in the sense that he’s a chameleon who makes himself whatever he thinks the audience wants to hear from him.”

Vance is the apparent successor to Trump, who hinted that Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio would be the Republican ticket for 2028.