Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro’s scathing rebuke of Vice President JD Vance has gone viral on social media.
At a press conference on Friday, Shapiro was asked about Vance, who had called a court order that directed the Trump administration to fully fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) for November “absurd.”
Shapiro said Vance had “turned his back” on the Appalachian communities he once said he represented, calling him a “total phony” who “doesn’t give a damn about all Americans.” A clip of Shapiro’s comments garnered more than a million views after it was posted on X by the senior digital editor of the liberal Meidas Touch website.
Shapiro said: “America has a president, a vice president that don’t give a damn about all Americans. They have made that crystal clear. And I mean, at least with Donald Trump, he’s transparent about that. JD Vance is a total phony.”
Vance “rose to some prominence by writing a book about growing up in Appalachia, where there’s a whole lot of people who get SNAP,” Shapiro said, referring to Vance’s 2016 memoir, Hillbilly Elegy.
“He made millions of dollars on the backs of telling their stories, and then he turned his damn back on those very people who he likes to write about and claim as his own.”
Shapiro added that for Vance “to turn around after claiming all these things his whole life and literally go to court to stop hungry people from eating, that is not only phony, it is shameful. And this is who is leading America today. And folks gotta wake up and realize the people who are leading in America quite literally wanna keep people hungry. And you’ll excuse me for getting emotional about it, but when I see people in my state who are hungry because of Vance’s bulls*** politics, that makes me angry.”
This is a developing story. Updates to follow.
