JD Vance stuns Joe Rogan by DEFENDING the UFC wrestler’s slur against Michelle Obama’s womanhood
BREAKING: JD Vance stuns Joe Rogan by DEFENDING the UFC wrestler’s slur against Michelle Obama’s womanhood.
Vice President JD Vance said on Joe Rogan’s podcast he does not for the life of him understand why Americans were offended after a UFC fighter shouted “Michelle Obama is a man!” from the ring during the infamous White House cage fight.
He spent the next several minutes digging himself a hole by going on and on dismissing the controversy and complaining that people were upset in the first place.
“People lost their minds about it,” Vance said. “… Lost their minds about it to the point where … I had The View the next day [and] my comms people were worried ‘They’re going to ask you ‘what are you going to say about Michelle Obama being called a man.’”
“And I was like, what? An amped up fighter told a joke after a fight … the reaction was totally disproportionate.”
Let’s remember that the fighter Josh Hokit wasn’t at a usual UFC event, but on the White House lawn at an official event attended by the President and multiple dignitaries when he decided he could get some ink by repeating one of the oldest and ugliest smears in all of politics directed at a former First Lady..
Vance not only didn’t condemn the remark, he pushed back on why people might find it offensive.
Even Rogan, who served as MC for the event and is hardly a crusader against offensive speech, was much more aware than Vance why the setting mattered.
“Well, I kind of understand it because it’s at the White House. First of all, a cage fight at the White House is crazy already,” Rogan said. “If [Hokit] said, ‘Michelle Obama’s a man’ at the T-Mobile Arena in Vegas, it’s like, OK.”
That still didn’t convince Vance, who repeated: “I’m still shocked that people were really fired up about it.”
Then he hit the point where he should have just shut up.
“The worst you could say is, ‘Oh, that was an offensive comment,’ and you get on with the rest of your life … The people who really flip out about it and kind of lose their minds, I just don’t understand that.”
This is the Vice President of our United States asked about a shameful smear of former First Lady during a White House event, and — evidently channeling his inner jerk as best he could — responded that people “lost their minds,” reacting “totally disproportionately,” to the “joke,” and we should all just “get on with the rest of [our lives].”
The amount of time Vance gave to this issue, on a Trump-friendly platform, leads us to believe he was road testing a new hyper-MAGA demeanor ahead of his upcoming battle with Marco Rubio to carry the Trump banner once the old man is put out to pasture.
It’s either that or the man simply has no manners, and is genuinely unable to grasp why many Americans expect the White House to be held to a higher standard than a UFC arena in Vegas.
