Chelsea Handler has weighed in on the drama surrounding JD Vance’s resurfaced comments.
Handler – in the middle of her stay in Las Vegas – went to Instagram to give her own response, after Vance told Tucker Carlson that the US, via the Democrats were run by a couple of childless cat ladies who are unhappy with their own lives.
“It’s just a fact,” Vance Carlson told reporters in 2021, sparking a firestorm of criticism that has included celebrities like Jennifer Aniston weighing in. “You look at Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, AOC, the entire future of the Democrats is going to be determined by people who don’t have children.”
Handler immediately came to Harris’ defense on Sunday, pointing out that figures like George Washington had no biological children and only stepchildren, as did the vice president.
She also reminded the audience that no sitting president in history has ever been a mother, suggesting that Vance’s statement was irrelevant.
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Chelsea Handler threw her hat into the ring on Sunday amid the drama surrounding JD Vance’s resurfaced comments, taking to Instagram
“But if she had five children with three different men, had a scandalous affair with a porn star and was a convicted felon, maybe that would go down better with Republican men,” she added sarcastically, referring to Vance’s running mate Donald Trump.
“I mean, my God, we’re so tired,” she continued, pretending to be irritated.
“You sad Diet Mountain Dew drinking couch-fucking dolphin porn enthusiast.”
Aside from referencing recent headlines about the junior senator, Handler’s response was sarcastic and terse.
She started off by introducing him as “the future star of his own Dateline episode” — an episode that caused quite a stir this week.
Responding to the now-viral clip, the 49-year-old former Chelsea Lately host spoke directly to the 39-year-old Vance.
“Listen, you outlandish whiner, this country is still run by men and systems set up by men that are carefully designed to continue to favor men,” she said.
So, to put it in misogynistic terms, you’re hysterical.
“But let’s be clear,” she continued. “There is no connection between childless people and the presidency.
The comedian was responding to a 2021 interview in which Vance told Tucker Carlson that the country was being run “by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are unhappy with their own lives.”
Handler – in the midst of her Las Vegas residency – pointed out that presidents like George Washington did not have biological children in her own response
For example, our very first President of the United States, Mr. George Washington, had no children.
“He even had two stepchildren,” she said.
“That’s right, just like someone else I know,” she added, as the video switched to a photo of Harris, her husband Doug Emhoff and their adult children.
“And as for your comment that Kamala is not fit because she is not a mother,” she continued, emphasizing the word “mother” and using quotation marks, “I want to remind you that in the history of the United States, there has never been a president who… [one].
“Us childless cat and dog women go from childless and crushing to childless and crushing in November,” Handler concluded before making one final comment referencing the senator’s recent controversy alleging that he had sex with a bank.
“And before you tell me he didn’t actually fuck on the couch, spare me,” Handler replied.
“I grew up in New Jersey in the ’80s, where everyone had a couch in their basement. I know a couch-fucking guy when I see one.”
That’s where the clip ended, which has now been liked almost 200,000 times.
The reactions show how much attention the controversy is getting, less than two weeks after Trump, 78, named Vance as his running mate at the Republican Party convention.
Harris has a stepson and stepdaughter with husband Doug Emhoff. The family is seen here
Since then, the senator has been the subject of countless headlines, including ones in which he casually told the former Fox News host that women without children have “no direct stake” in America’s future and that they are “unhappy … with their choices.”
On Saturday, Aniston, 55, said: ‘Mr. Vance, I pray that your daughter is fortunate enough to have children of her own one day.
“I hope she doesn’t need IVF as a second option. Because you’re trying to take that away from her too.”
Vance, who has three children with his wife Usha Chilukuri Vance, responded: “That’s disgusting because my daughter is 2 years old.”
Aniston wasn’t the only one affected by Vance’s comments. People across the country responded en masse on social media.
“My cats and I are MORE than willing to do whatever it takes to get President Kamala Harris elected! #YesWeKam,” one supporter wrote.
Ella Emhoff, the vice president’s stepdaughter, also responded on Instagram: “How can you be ‘childless’ when you have adorable children like Cole and I,” referring to her brother and Harris’ stepson Cole.
Their biological mother Kerstin also came to Harris’s aid.
The junior senator from Ohio and his wife Usha Chilukuri Vance attend the Republican National Convention earlier this month. He took aim at Harris, Pete Buttigieg and AOC on his three-year-old comment
“These are baseless attacks,” she wrote in her own post.
‘For over 10 years, since Cole and Ella were teenagers, Kamala has co-parented with Doug and me.
“She is loving, nurturing, fiercely protective and always present. I love our blended family and am grateful to have her as a part of it.”
Meanwhile, SpaceX and Tesla boss Elon Musk recently defended Vance, accusing Vice President Harris of wanting to wipe out humanity.
“Shamala is an extinction,” Musk wrote, referring to a tweet from Vance in which he shared a clip of Harris saying young people are worried about the climate crisis.
“The logical continuation of her philosophy would be a de facto holocaust for all of humanity!” Musk said.
“I’ve heard young leaders talking to me about a term they coined: climate anxiety, right?” Harris said in the resurfaced video, as politicians and celebrities continue to take sides in this strange chaos.
Several other figures have since rushed to social media to defend the vice president, who is seen giving speeches at a campaign event in Pittsfield, Massachusetts on Saturday
Vance voted against the Democratic-led Right to IVF Act last month, but supported a GOP-sponsored bill that would strip states of Medicaid funding if they banned IVF treatments. Some have begun to raise concerns about him as the GOP’s VP pick
‘That is fear of the future and the unknown, fear of the question of whether it even makes sense to think about having children.’
Vance voted against the Democratic-backed Right to IVF Act last month, but did support a Republican-backed bill, the IVF Protection Act, that would strip states of their Medicaid funding if they banned IVF treatments.
During a question-and-answer session with Kelly over the weekend, Vance explained that he is pro-IVF within reason, leading many pundits and conservative commentators, such as Ben Shapiro, to express concerns about the GOP VP pick.
“I think we need to protect the rights of Christian hospitals to operate in the way they want to operate,” he said. “But that is of course completely consistent with promoting fertility treatment for parents who need it.”
Meanwhile, on the latest episode of his eponymous show, Shapiro joined the many who criticized the senator for the outrage the resurfaced interview has sparked.
“I think he would have chosen someone like Glenn Youngkin from Virginia to broaden his base,” he said, referring to Republican candidate Trump.
“Instead, he went with JD Vance because he felt that because he was right at that moment, he had a very big advantage in the race against Joe Biden.”
Harris, who has not yet been confirmed as the Democratic nominee, has not yet named a running mate.