A resurfaced interview featuring Donald Trump's pick for vice president has sparked outrage, with several high-profile actresses, including Jennifer Aniston and Mayim Bialik, voicing their disapproval.
In the 2021 interview, J.D. Vance characterized the Democratic leadership, including Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, as "childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they've made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable too."
JD Vance says women who haven't given birth like Kamala Harris are "childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives," and have "no direct stake" in America. pic.twitter.com/3DJY3pQTGe
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) July 22, 2024
Vance singled out Harris, Pete Buttigieg (Secretary of Transportation in the Biden administration), and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (House Representative from New York). "The entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children. And how does it make any sense that we've turned our country over to people who don't really have a direct stake in it?"
As the interview footage gained traction on X, it triggered a wave of angry responses. Actress Jennifer Aniston weighed in, posting on her Instagram story, "I truly can't believe this is coming from a potential VP of the United States. All I can say is… Mr. Vance, I pray that your daughter is fortunate enough to bear children of her own one day. I hope she will not need to turn to IVF as a second option. Because you are trying to take that away from her, too."
JD Vance's comments about childless cat ladies are 🙄 - here's my take.
Some of my favorite people are childless, cat ladies, or both. So there.
TikTok audio remix with @ purrcival pic.twitter.com/zBa7oKEyCE
— Mayim Bialik (@missmayim) July 25, 2024
Anniston was referring to the June Senate legislation spearheaded by Democrats that aims to safeguard access to fertility treatments nationwide, which Vance opposed. Vance is widely recognized as a conservative stalwart within the Republican Party and a vocal opponent of abortion.
Mayim Bialik, star of "The Big Bang Theory," also joined the fray with a response on X. "Some of my favorite people are childless, cat ladies, or both," she wrote in a post that included a montage of images of Bialik with cats set against the backdrop of the Vance interview recording and a Godfather-based parody with the words "You disrespect the cat, you disrespect the family."
