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❓WHAT HAPPENED: Vice President J.D. Vance has hit back against Nick Fuentes and his followers, known as Groypers, for their attacks on Second Lady Usha Vance and his children.

👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: J.D. Vance, Second Lady Usha Vance, Nick Fuentes, and the Groyper movement.

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📍WHEN & WHERE: The comments were made during an exclusive interview with UnHerd at the vice president’s residence, December 22, 2025.

💬KEY QUOTE: “Anyone who attacks my wife, whether their name is Jen Psaki or Nick Fuentes, can eat s**t.” – J.D. Vance

🎯IMPACT: Vance stressed that, despite his disdain for Fuentes, he is far less of a concern than liberals using their institutional power to discriminate against white people.

Vice President J.D. Vance delivered a sharp rebuke to streamer Nick Fuentes and his followers, known as Groypers, over the weekend, after months of abuse directed at his wife, Second Lady Usha Vance, and their children. “Let me be clear,” he said in an interview with UnHerd. “Anyone who attacks my wife, whether their name is Jen Psaki [the former Biden press secretary] or Nick Fuentes, can eat s**t. That’s my official policy as Vice President of the United States.”

Fuentes, who opposed President Donald J. Trump and his team ahead of the 2024 election and was briefly a member of the Kanye West campaign team, is an outspoken critic of “organized Jewry in America.” Addressing these views, Vance stated that “Antisemitism, and all forms of ethnic hatred, have no place in the conservative movement. Whether you’re attacking somebody because they’re white or because they’re black or because they’re Jewish, I think it’s disgusting.”

“I think that Nick Fuentes, his influence within Donald Trump’s administration, and within a whole host of institutions on the Right, is vastly overstated, and frankly, it’s overstated by people who want to avoid having a foreign-policy conversation about America’s relationship with Israel,” Vance continued.

Of his own views on Israel, the Vice President said the Jewish State was an “important ally,” but stressed that, “we should be able to say, ‘We agree with Israel on that issue, and we disagree with Israel on this other issue.’ Having that conversation is, I think, much less comfortable for a lot of people, because they want to focus on Nick Fuentes.”

Notably, the Trump administration has clashed with the Israeli government a number of times in recent months, particularly over a strike in Qatar and the treatment of Christians.

Despite his disdain for Fuentes, Vance argued that the streamer should be much less of a concern to people worried about discrimination than liberals with institutional power who have “For the past five to 10 years… go[ne] all in on the idea that discriminating against whites in college admissions and jobs is not just OK, but affirmatively good.”

“It pisses me off that Fuentes calls my kids ‘jeet,’ and I appreciate that Ro Khanna would never do that,” he said, referring to a slur for Indian people. “You know what pisses me off a million times more? That Ro Khanna, AOC, and Chris Murphy would deny them jobs and opportunities because they have the wrong skin color,” he added.

Full interview here.

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