Vice President JD Vance denounced former White House press secretary Jen Psaki’s offhand comments suggesting second lady Usha Vance needed to be “saved” from her husband.

“I think it’s embarrassing, but of course the second lady can speak for herself,” Vance told reporters in Israel on Thursday. “And I’m very lucky to have a wonderful wife.”

The vice president said he “hopes” his wife, whom he married in 2014, feels “the same way about me.”

“But we’re very fortunate to be on this journey… or should I say I’m very fortunate to be on this journey with a very loving wife,” Vance added. “We will continue to serve the country together, and I am honored to have Usha by my side on this journey, particularly, but always.”

Vance’s comments came after Psaki made comments about his wife during an appearance on the “I’ve Had It” podcast.

Calling Vance Trump’s right-hand man a “little Manchurian candidate” who “wants to be president more than anything else,” he said he “always wonders[s] What is going on in your wife’s mind?

“Are you okay? Please blink four times. We’ll come here. We’ll save you,” Psaki said during the Oct. 21 episode.

Vice President JD Vance and former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki have clashed in the past. Psaki previously said that voters and “the American public can smell the inauthenticity” of then-Republican vice presidential nominee Vance while appearing on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
Vice President JD Vance and former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki have clashed in the past. Psaki previously said that voters and “the American public can smell a lack of authenticity” in then-Republican vice presidential nominee Vance while appearing on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” in August 2024.

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The former Biden official also implied that the vice president is “scarier” than President Donald Trump.

“And that he’s willing to do anything to get there. And the whole iteration that you just described, I mean, he’s scarier in certain ways. And he’s young and ambitious and agile in the sense that he’s a chameleon who does what he thinks the public wants to hear from him,” Psaki added.

Vance, who shares three children with the second lady, was not the only political figure to criticize the MSNBC host’s statement.

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Steven Cheung, current White House communications director, accused Psaki of “transferring her own personal problems onto others” in an X post.

“[Psaki] “She is an idiot who doesn’t understand the truth and has to overcompensate for her lack of talent by saying false things,” he wrote.