Since joining former president Donald Trump's ticket as his vice presidential candidate, JD Vance has found himself in hot water on multiple occasions, and now, his past is coming back to haunt him again. This week, a podcast appearance that Vance made in 2020 resurfaced where he agreed with the host that the "whole purpose" of women who have been through menopause is to raise their grandchildren, and that's going over about as well as you'd expect it might.
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A clip from the podcast has been going viral on social media this week.
In the clip from a 2020 episode of a podcast called The Portal, Vance and host Eric Weinstein are talking about grandparents who help raise their grandchildren.
When Weinstein says, "That's the whole purpose of the postmenopausal female, in theory," Vance can be heard replying, "Yes."
Weinstein said involved grandmothers are a 'weird, unadvertised feature' of marrying into an Indian family.
As Newsweek pointed out, Vance's wife, Usha, is the daughter of Indian immigrants, and he explained on the podcast that her mother took a yearlong sabbatical from her job as a biology teacher to help when their baby arrived and the family needed extra help as Usha started a new job.
"Why didn't she just keep her job, give us part of the wages to pay somebody else to do it, right? Because that is the thing that the hyper-liberalized economics wants you to do," Vance said. "The economic logic of always prioritizing paid wage labor over other forms of contributing to a society is, to me, it's actually a consequence of a sort of fundamental liberalism that is ultimately going to unwind and collapse upon itself."
Vance's representative says he's being misunderstood, though.
In a statement to Newsweek, Vance's spokeswoman, Taylor Van Kirk, said he was only agreeing with the host that spending time with grandparents is good for kids.
"It's a disgrace that the media is lying about JD instead of holding Kamala Harris accountable for her policies that caused sky high prices for groceries and everyday necessities, a disaster at the southern border, and a historic drug overdose epidemic," Van Kirk said, according to the news outlet.
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People aren't impressed with Vance, though.
"A good general rule for running for public office is that you should not say any sentence that has to include the phrase 'the postmenopausal female,'" one person wrote on X (formerly Twitter).
Another tweet on the subject reads, "Notice how JD Vance never opines on the role of men. Women should drop everything to have kids & raise them without childcare. Women should sacrifice their careers. He even has a role in the home for postmenopausal women. Where are the men in all this?"
This isn't the first time an old comment like this has resurfaced.
Last month, a 2021 interview with Tucker Carlson resurfaced in a similar way, with the vice presidential hopeful receiving backlash for his comments on childless people in the United States.
"We are effectively run in this country … by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made, and so they wanna make the rest of the country miserable, too," Vance said in the interview.
