Vance Finally Speaks Out For Usha After Racist MAGA Attacks, Tells Critics To “Eat S—”

India-West News Desk

WASHINGTON, DC – Vice President JD Vance said that anyone who attacks his wife, second lady Usha Vance, “can eat s…,” finally delivering his bluntest public defense of her after weeks of trolling and racist attacks from within the far right.

The remark came during an interview with the British online magazine UnHerd, when Vance was asked whether he disavowed white nationalist podcaster Nick Fuentes. “Let me be clear,” Vance said. “Anyone who attacks my wife, whether their name is Jen Psaki or Nick Fuentes, can eat s…. That’s my official policy as Vice President of the United States.”

The comment marked an open intervention by Vance, who has largely stayed silent as Usha Vance faced abuse online over her Indian American Hindu background. Fuentes, who has been described as a white supremacist by the Anti Defamation League, recently mocked Vance as a “race traitor” and used the racial slur ‘jeet’ to refer to Usha Vance during a livestream, while also targeting the couple’s children.

Vance’s defense comes after days of internal fighting within the MAGA movement, with figures such as Tucker Carlson and Steve Bannon on one side and Vivek Ramaswamy and Ben Shapiro on the other, over how forcefully Republicans should distance themselves from Fuentes and similar extremists.

Ramaswamy was among Republicans who publicly condemned Fuentes’ remarks, calling out the racism aimed at the second lady. The episode has underscored growing fractures on the right, and exposed to the Indian Americans in the MAGA movement their vulnerabilities and non-acceptance over race, religion and immigration.

In his UnHerd interview, Vance grouped Fuentes with former Biden White House press secretary Jen Psaki, who in October suggested on a podcast that Usha Vance should be “rescued from her husband.” Vance had earlier made comments wishing his Hindu wife would convert to Christianity.

The decision to lump Psaki together with Fuentes drew notice, given the vastly different nature of their remarks. Fuentes has denied the Holocaust and used racial slurs, while Psaki’s comments were framed as political mockery.