Vice President JD Vance said Nick Fuentes can "eat s**t," when asked about Fuentes' comments attacking his wife, the Second Lady, Usha Vance.
"Anyone who attacks my wife, whether their name is Jen Psaki or Nick Fuentes, can eat s**t. That's my official policy as vice president of the United States," he said during an interview with UnHerd.
🚨 JUST IN: JD Vance says Nick Fuentes can "eat sh*t" after Fuentes attacked Vance's wife, Usha
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) December 22, 2025
"Let me be clear. Anyone who attacks my wife, whether their name is Jen Psaki or Nick Fuentes, can eat sh*t. That’s my official policy as vice president of the United States," Vance… pic.twitter.com/aSeZwjrpWF
Fuentes has called Vance a "fat, gay, race traitor" and referred to his wife as a "jeet," a slur against Indians. Unfortunately, the neo-Nazi and virulent antisemite has positioned himself as a "conservative" voice, gaining influence among some young conservatives (If that is hard to believe, watch several of the questions asked by students from TPUSA's AmericaFest last week).
“Who is this guy, really? Do we really expect that the guy who has an Indian wife and named their kid Vivek is going to support white identity?” Fuentes said shortly after Vance was selected as President Trump’s running mate.
He has exploited the perception that white men are being discriminated against under Democratic policies, and, regrettably, this rhetoric has made some more receptive to his other ideas, such as the claim that Israel somehow controls American foreign policy and that the United States was founded to be a white man's country.
Earlier this year on X, he wrote: "When conservatives attack Zohran Mamdani for being a foreigner, I just want them to keep the same energy with Vivek Ramaswamy and Usha Vance. Let’s be consistent."
When conservatives attack Zohran Mamdani for being a foreigner, I just want them to keep the same energy with Vivek Ramaswamy and Usha Vance.
— Nicholas J. Fuentes (@NickJFuentes) July 1, 2025
Let’s be consistent.
UnHerd asked Vance if he disavowed Fuentes:
"My attitude towards anybody, again, who is calling for judging people based on their ethnic heritage, whether they’re Jewish or white or anything else, it’s disgusting," Vance said. "We shouldn’t be doing it."
"[That said,] 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 added.
Unfortunately, at present, the main voices questioning foreign policy related to Israel focus exclusively on Israel, while ignoring other countries. These same commentators rarely, if ever, have scrutinized nations like Ukraine, Qatar, Jordan, or Egypt, countries that arguably deserve even more scrutiny.
The conservative movement is rapidly being forced to reassess its coalition. AmericaFest 2025 opened with the conservative civil war taking center stage, as Ben Shapiro launched attacks on Steve Bannon, Tucker Carlson, and Megyn Kelly. They fired back in kind, with Bannon calling Shapiro a "cancer," and Kelly revealing that she and Shapiro were no longer friends. None of the commentators called for deplatforming, although Shapiro was after denunciations.
Vance chided the commentators during his speech Sunday at AmericaFest, saying:
President Trump did not build the greatest coalition in politics by running his supporters through endless, self-defeated purity tests. I didn’t bring a list of conservatives to denounce or to deplatform. Let me just say the best way to honor [assassinated Turning Point co-founder] Charlie [Kirk] is that none of us here should be doing something after Charlie’s death that he himself refused to do in life.
Many on Ben Shapiro's side have argued that Tucker Carlson would not have interviewed Fuentes until after Charlie was assassinated, as he was adamant about not giving the neo-Nazi a platform.
Conservatives will soon have to decide its position on Israel and whether "America First" truly means that, or if it really means "America Only."
