Former MSNBC anchor Joy Reid suggested that Vice President JD Vance might kick his wife Usha to the curb because she’s Indian-American and take up with Charlie’s Kirk’s widow Erika in a bid to win the presidency in 2028.
Reid, who made the tasteless comments on the ‘I’ve Had It’ podcast, said that President Donald Trump’s supporters are ‘fundamentally racist’ and would not accept Usha Vance as a future First Lady.
‘What most motivates MAGA? Hatred and non-white immigrants,’ Reid told co-hosts Jennifer Welch and Angie ‘Pumps’ Sullivan, noting that Vance may not be the heir apparent he thinks he is.
‘They can’t have the successor to MAGA be the guy with the brown Hindu wife,’ she continued.
‘They’re also Christian nationalists – that ain’t going to work. That’s why he’s throwing his wife under the bus. Poor Usha. Or she’s in on it. Right?’ Reid said.
Welch, who sparked outrage for laughing at Charlie Kirk’s death back in September, then brought up Erika Kirk, accusing Vance of engaging in an amorous exchange with the widow for hugging her on-stage at her husband’s memorial.
‘Playing slap and tickle with Erika Kirk, it’s the weirdest s**t I’ve ever seen,’ she said.
Reid reprimanded Kirk for ‘holding on the back of [Vance’s] head and rubbing on his head’ during the embrace, adding that if it was her husband, ‘I’m going start thinking something’s going on.’
‘You not doing that right thing. Supposed to be a widow,’ Reid continued of Kirk’s appearance at the memorial. ‘You in leather pants? That’s not widow-wear.’
Welch and Sullivan both cackled in response.
‘Wouldn’t it be the most perfect fairy tale, MAGA fairy tale, if he finally sees the light that he needs a white queen instead of this brown Hindu?’ said Reid, who was let go from MSNBC after a series of controversial social media rants and on-air outbursts.
‘I mean, I’m not saying that’s happening, or maybe that Usha is not even in on it. Maybe she is – whatever. But that’s one entrant.’
During a live on-stage interview with Megyn Kelly last week, Kirk revealed what Vance whispered in her ear during their much-scrutinized hug.
‘My love language is touch, if you will … So I will give you a play by play,’ Kirk told the former Fox News host in front of an audience of thousands in Glendale, Arizona.
‘They just played the emotional video. I’m walking over, he’s walking over. I’m starting to cry. He says, ‘I’m so proud of you.’ And I say, ‘God bless you,’ and I touch the back of his head.
‘Anyone whom I have hugged that I have touched the back of your head when I hug you, I always say, ‘God bless you.”
Kelly responded with a quick joke, ‘They were acting like you touched the back of his ass!’
‘I feel like I wouldn’t get as much hate if I did that!’ Kirk said with a laugh.
Usha, meanwhile, was spotted without her wedding ring during a visit to Camp Lejeune military base in North Carolina last week.
After suffering vicious online trolling for not wearing her ring, a spokeswoman for the Second Lady poured cold water on the speculation, stating that she ‘is a mother of three young children who does a lot of dishes, gives lots of baths, and forgets her ring sometimes’.
Earlier this month, Vance, 41, admitted at a Mississippi Turning Point USA event that he previously pleaded with his wife to convert from Hinduism. Vance is a Roman Catholic.
The comments sparked backlash, causing Vance to clarify in a post to X: ‘She is not Christian and has no plans to convert.’
The two married in 2014 and share three children.
A rep from Kirk’s Turning Point USA, Andrew Kolvet, wrote on X of the exchange: ‘Watch three deranged, likely post-menopausal women flippantly turn a moment of shared grief into a sexualized liberal fever dream where they project their own racism and disdain for Christians onto Erika Kirk, Vice President Vance, Second Lady Usha, and half the country.
‘This is an insight into the spiritual core of the radical left: sneering, deriding, and jeering at the suffering of a widow because her slain husband was conservative.’
The Daily Mail has contacted Vance’s office for comment.
