Jen Psaki can’t seem to let go of her old grudges. The former Biden White House press secretary, now reduced to spouting off on MSNBC and podcasts, took a cheap shot at Vice President JD Vance and his wife Usha during an appearance on the “I’ve Had It” podcast.
She painted Vance as some kind of power-hungry puppet, calling him a “little Manchurian candidate” who “wants to be president more than anything else.” Then she dragged Usha into it, saying, “I always wonder what’s going on in the mind of his wife. Like, are you OK? Please blink four times. We’ll come over here. We’ll save you.”
Psaki didn’t stop there. She claimed Vance is “scarier in certain ways” than President Donald Trump because “he’s willing to do anything to get there” and acts like “a chameleon who makes himself whatever he thinks the audience wants to hear from him.” The podcast even piled on in its description: “Usha Vance, please blink twice if you need help.”
The backlash came fast and furious. White House Director of Communications Steven Cheung fired back, calling Psaki a “dumba– who has no comprehension of the truth” and telling her to “circle back on that, moron.”
Conservative voices on X lit her up too. Libs of TikTok posted: “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.”
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.pic.twitter.com/RxNQs0p2Wn
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) October 21, 2025
Amy Curtis from Townhall.com added: “This is an absolutely vile thing to say. Usha Vance is happily married. She made a vow to JD and those words mean something. It’s also an insult to women who are in actual bad marriages.”
Also, this is an absolutely vile thing to say.
Usha Vance is happily married. She made a vow to JD and those words mean something.
It’s also an insult to women who are in actual bad marriages. https://t.co/UmfIFLwbpj
— Amy Curtis (@RantyAmyCurtis) October 21, 2025
Fox News contributor Joe Concha kept it simple: “Not a good person. At all.”
Not a good person. At all. https://t.co/ZQoiIDJFGE
— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) October 21, 2025
And Jack Posobiec from Turning Point USA pointed out the absurdity: “Usha is accompanying JD right now in Israel securing the Gaza Peace Deal. Absolutely disgusting comments.”
Usha is accompanying JD right now in Israel securing the Gaza Peace Deal
Absolutely disgusting comments https://t.co/SmdiAufuHz
— Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) October 21, 2025
This isn’t just Psaki being petty—it’s part of a bigger pattern. Remember, she’s the one who spent years circling back on questions she couldn’t answer straight during the Biden mess. Now, with Trump back in the White House and Vance helping broker real progress like the Gaza ceasefire that’s holding despite flare-ups, she’s grasping at straws to stay in the spotlight.
But why go after a strong family like the Vances? Usha, a successful lawyer and mother, stands by her husband through thick and thin, including his trip to Jerusalem this week to meet Netanyahu and push the peace deal forward.
Dig a little deeper, and it smells like desperation from the old guard. Psaki’s crew lost big in 2024, and now they’re whispering these wild rumors to stir up division in the administration. Is it a coincidence that this drops while Vance is overseas making headway on a deal the previous folks bungled? Or is it another media hit job, coordinated with the deep state holdovers who never accepted Trump’s return?
We’ve seen this playbook before—smear the family to weaken the man. But the Vances are solid, focused on faith, kids, and getting things done, not playing these games.
Psaki’s words don’t just flop; they expose how out of touch she is. While the Trump administration deals with real issues like the government shutdown standoff, she’s joking about rescuing wives from happy marriages. Time for her to circle back to irrelevance.
Maybe she’s the one who need to be rescued?