A White House official called Jen Psaki a “dumbass” and a “moron” after she made mocking remarks about Second Lady Usha Vance and her marriage to Vice President JD Vance.
Psaki, a former White House press secretary under President Joe Biden, who now hosts her own show on MSNBC, had been speaking on an episode of the “I’ve Had It” podcast that was released Tuesday.
“I always wonder what’s going on in the mind of his wife,” Psaki said, referring to Usha Vance. “Like, are you OK? Please blink four times. Come over here, we’ll save you.”
The podcast episode’s description on YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts referenced the comment, stating: “Usha Vance, please blink twice if you need help.”
Steven Cheung, the current White House director of communications, hit back in a post on X.
Psaki “must be transferring her own personal issues onto others,” Cheung wrote, sharing the clip of her comments.
Cheung called Psaki “a dumbass who has no comprehension of the truth and has to overcompensate for her lack of talent by saying untrue things.”
“Circle back on that, moron,” he added, referring to a common phrase Psaki used when talking to reporters while she was press secretary.
In the podcast, Psaki had also said she thought Vance is “scarier in certain ways” than President Donald Trump.
She said the “little Manchurian candidate JD Vance wants to be president more than anything else” and that “he’s willing to do anything to get there,” calling him “a chameleon who makes himself into whatever he thinks the audience wants to hear from him”.
But Psaki added that she thinks Vance will struggle to take the MAGA movement with him because he has “no rizz”—meaning charisma—and is “a little odd”.
Conservatives slammed Psaki’s comments on social media.
The Libs of TikTok account wrote on X: ”Unhinged Jen Psaki is now smearing JD Vance, suggesting that his wife, Usha, wants to leave her husband and offers to ‘save’ her. She also thinks JD Vance is ‘scarier’ than Donald Trump. @MSNBC should be ashamed to pay her salary.”
Conservative activist Jack Posobiec called Psaki’s comments “absolutely disgusting” in a post on X, adding that Usha Vance “is accompanying JD right now in Israel securing the Gaza Peace Deal.”
This is a developing article. Updates to follow.
