J.D. Vance Defends 'Childless Cat Ladies' Comment | TMZ Live
Donald Trump's running mate appeared on "The Megyn Kelly Show" Friday ... claiming haters are too busy fixating on the sarcasm in his old 2021 comments and not enough on the supposed wisdom he was trying to drop.
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00:00Jennifer Aniston much the way George Clooney sort of started the ball rolling
00:04In the public cry for Joe Biden to step down from the campaign
00:10Jennifer Aniston has started a thing with celebrities sounding off on JD Vance the senator from Ohio
00:17Who of course is now Donald Trump's running mate and the comments he made on Tucker Carlson's show a few years ago
00:23About childless cat ladies who are running the Democratic Party running running it into the ground, right?
00:30so
00:31We got Kesha out at LAX yesterday
00:33Photog I ran into her and just wanted to she was clearly in a hurry
00:38But wanted to get the question out about JD Vance watch the second she hears
00:45JD Vance his name watch her reaction
00:53I have to say
00:56JD Vance says that the country is being run by childhood childless cat ladies
01:07Listen look a lot of people are upset because there he's basically
01:12It's a sexist comment. It's really are you gonna support Kamala? You gonna stomp for her?
01:17She went for sass over substance short short and sweet. Yes short and sweet. Definitely sassy
01:22so JD Vance tried to clarify his remark on Megyn Kelly's podcast and
01:30He may have dug the hole a little bit deeper actually
01:33It's not a criticism of people who don't have children
01:37I explicitly said in my remarks despite the fact that media has lied about this
01:40But this is not about criticizing people who for various reasons didn't have kids
01:45This is about criticizing the Democratic Party for becoming anti family and anti child having kids is good
01:51Being a parent changes your perspective on the world. That is not a bad thing to stand up for parents
01:58In fact, it's the best thing if our politics isn't standing up for parents, then what the hell are we doing Megan?
02:03So two things one, I didn't realize that all policy is supposed to be parent
02:10Central. Well, there are two things one is that yes, it's great having kids
02:15But why denigrate those who don't to me? That's the and I don't like you
02:19Well, he started out saying that I'm not attacking people who haven't had kids or aren't able to have kids
02:24But then at the end he said he made it clear policy should be about helping people who have kids and you and but then
02:32It's good. But then he said Democrats are
02:35Anti-children. Well, and I think what I'm doing. Well, no, I get that. That's his viewpoint. But but wait a minute
02:40I mean fair is fair here that yes
02:42There is a division in the country on abortion and pro-choice versus pro-life
02:48And that's what I thought he was referring to. I understand that but because somebody is pro-choice doesn't mean they're anti child
02:54I totally agree with you, but that is the viewpoint from a lot of people in the on the right
03:00That's a cheap trick. Yeah. Well, I agree
03:02The one thing I will know is that child birth rates in this country are in fact down
03:07Millennials and people younger than that are not having as much kids as generations before them and that's a problem, right?
03:14It's a genuine issue and I'll just make this personal for myself when I'm
03:17meeting a lady or something for the first time and
03:20Topic of kids comes up and they like right out the gate say I don't want kids
03:24I raise an eyebrow to that a little bit
03:27Especially if they're like a young person of childbearing age kind of like I look at them like really you don't want kids
03:33You don't want to spread the seed like to me. I I
03:36Think having kids is a good thing. I support that with that said it's fine
03:40If people don't want to have kids, we don't need to like badmouth them the way JD did. However, yes have kids
03:46That's my opinion. Anyway, if somebody chooses not to doesn't mean they're it doesn't make you any less
03:51American or any have any less stake in this country at all, of course this belief that politics exist that policy should only be about
04:00helping people who have kids is
04:03So offensive. Yeah, it just is and again, I
04:09We're not trying to we're not pushing any candidate here, but we're just trying to fair is fair and right at fair is fair
04:16and
04:16You don't denigrate people with kids and you don't denigrate people who don't have kids because some people can't and some people don't want them
04:23Government should be helping all citizens. Hi, it's Kerington from Houston, Texas
04:28And I just want to say Kesha was not wrong for her comments. This is
04:332024 we're not living in the Handmaid's Tale
04:36But what I will tell you is my favorite childless cat lady is Taylor Swift
04:40I need all the Swifties to join childless cat ladies for Harris 2024, by the way
04:46You know, that's where he's an actual cat. That's where he's playing with fire because if Taylor Swift comes out in
04:54support of Kamala Harris
04:56She can animate so many voters right that she can actually and she will actually get them to go vote
05:02she will get them to go vote and
05:04If she does it she's gonna use that comment. Yeah