'Miserable': Analyst highlights signs that JD Vance and his wife 'loathe each other'

[LetMyPeopleVote]

Vice President J.D. Vance's marriage appears to be falling apart behind the scenes, Amanda Marcotte wrote for Salon — and the two barely seem to be capable of hiding how much they "loathe each other" at this point.

Vice President J.D. Vance's marriage appears to be falling apart behind the scenes, Amanda Marcotte wrote for Salon — and the two barely seem to be capable of hiding how much they "loathe each other" at this point.

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Vice President J.D. Vance's marriage appears to be falling apart behind the scenes, Amanda Marcotte wrote for Salon — and the two barely seem to be capable of hiding how much they "loathe each other" at this point.....

"Last month, Megan McCain hosted Usha Vance for what should have been the softest of softball interviews, focused on what life as second lady is like," wrote Marcotte. "Vance clearly understood her assignment was to make it all seem like a great time — that leaving her career as a high-powered attorney to spend her days doing sub-Melania Trump public appearances about dull topics like the importance of reading for kids. But her acting chops weren’t up to it. Instead, audiences were treated to a one-hour hostage video, as the increasingly desperate McCain tried to get Vance to feign interest in her own life."

In particular, she showed no interest in her role as second lady, and talked on and on about how much she missed her old life, saying her husband doesn't cook for her anymore, and reflecting, “In a dream world, eventually, I’ll be able to live in my home and continue my career” — all while offering McCain no details about her romantic life no matter how much she was pressed.

The vice president himself doesn't appear to get any more joy out of the marriage, wrote Marcotte.

" J.D. Vance has spent years now dropping similarly miserable hints that he is not enjoying married life ... In March, he 'joked' that when 'the cameras are all on; anything I say, no matter how crazy, my wife Usha has to smile, laugh, and celebrate it,'" And during his speech at the GOP convention last year, he boasted about how “when we allow newcomers into our American family, we allow them on our terms,” and that his marriage proposal included being buried in the family's seven-generation Eastern Kentucky cemetery plot. "The implication wasn’t subtle: Usha Vance is expected to subsume her South Asian identity to his family’s whiteness, as well as her husband’s blood-and-soil idea of what makes someone an American."

[Orrex]

1. He'll probably have to sleep on the couch.

[SheltieLover]

2. ...

[Hey Joe]

8. That poor soiled, brutalized couch !

😖
Ick !!

[Maine-i-ac]

12. I think you spelled "with" wrong there

[SheltieLover]

3. They are both loathsome creatures

[BOSSHOG]

4. Just like the American people and JD Vance

We loathe each other. Except for the stupid Americans who spend time on couches.

[Blue Owl]

5. Just like Bore-us and Natasha! Well isn't that something.

[Raven123]

6. Wait, has anyone told MAGA that JD cooked for Usha?

Totally destroys the MAGA myth of masculinity.

[louis-t]

7. I hope they are ALL miserable.

Miller, Melanoma, J.D., Usha, RFK Jr, Johnson, Graham, McConnell, every fucking Senator that bows down to him, every repug operative traitor, my rotten (broke) cousin John (who posts that he's 'at Mar a Lago' to try to impress the rubes and thinks his orange buddy is going to appoint him Ambassador to Lebanon),

[Ocelot II]

9. Direct link to the Salon piece:

https://www.salon.com/2025/08/11/divorce-him-already-usha/

[viva la]

10. His ancestor-worship is sickening-

And for those forebears! His addict mother, his abusive grandparents.

And he seems to think they are more important and "American" than his highly accomplished India-born in-laws. I can't imagine how they can stand to be in the same room as him.