J.D. Vance's Most Shocking Scandals Since Becoming VP Nominee Revealed — From Backing Trump in Race Row to Spouting Conspiracy Theories

As soon as Donald Trump announced J.D. Vance as his running mate in the 2024 election, the Ohio senator began facing criticism for his past controversial comments and moments.

In July, a photo of the VP pick wearing a shirt depicting the U.S.S.R. flag made the rounds on social media sites.

Critics called out Vance for donning the communist symbol, though some defended him – as it was only part of a Halloween party.

Vance's 2021 "childless cat ladies" comments during his interview with Tucker Carlson on Fox News also resurfaced.

At the time, he used the label to describe women without biological children – including Kamala Harris – and explained the government was being spearheaded by people who were "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".

Celebrities, including Whoopi Goldberg and Jennifer Aniston, lambasted Vance over his comments.

However, he defended himself when he spoke with Megyn Kelly on the The Megyn Kelly Show podcast.

He said: "Obviously, it was a sarcastic comment. I've got nothing against cats."

Vance also said social media should be blamed "for focusing so much on the sarcasm and not on the substance of what I actually said".

His other resurfaced controversial comments include his suggestion to give people with children more voting rights and his stance on the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

On the Full Send podcast, Vance recalled the time he told his seven-year-old son Ewan to "shut the h--- up" while they were in a hotel room.

The young child reportedly started talking enthusiastically about Pikachu, the star of the famous Pokémon games and anime series, while speaking to Trump.

Vance said: "He is really into Pokémon cards right now, he's going through a Pokémon phase... I mean, he's really into it, so he is trying to talk to me about Pikachu, and I am on the phone with Donald Trump, I'm like, 'Son, shut the h--- up for 30 seconds about Pikachu."

Vance reportedly told his son: "This is the most important phone call of my life, please just let me take this phone call."

Social media users and critics slammed Vance for his parenting style, calling him out for not being a loving and caring father to his child.

Vance made a plea while attacking his rival, Vice President Kamala Harris.

He said: “She voted – even after it was obvious it was a mistake – she voted to preserve NAFTA, the very trade deal that sent American jobs to Mexico and turned the American dream into nightmares.

"And now she wants a promotion."

He then suggested Harris should be fired and replaced with The Apprentice star.

Trump told journalists during an event with the National Association of Black Journalists his presidential opponent "turned Black" for political gain and now "wants to be known as Black".

He asked the crowd: "Is she Indian or is she Black?"

After his controversial comment, CNN's Steve Contorno got Vance's reaction to Trump's comments as a father to three biracial children.

Contorno asked: "Did those comments give you pause at all?"

But Vance dismissed such an idea before calling Kamala a "chameleon".

He responded: "She goes to Georgia two days ago. She was raised in Canada. She puts on a fake Southern accent. She is everything to everybody and she pretends to be somebody different, depending on which audience she's in front of.

"I think it's totally reasonable for the president to call that out, and that's all he did."

On X, Vance put the blame on Harris for her support for LGBTQ+ after watching a clip of Imane Khelif and Angela Carini's boxing match at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Vance, 40, said: "This is where Kamala Harris' ideas about gender lead: to a grown man pummeling a woman in a boxing match. This is disgusting, and all of our leaders should condemn it."

Khelif is a cisgender woman and has never identified as transgender.

On Tuesday, August 6, Vance admonished reporters on his plane before his Philadelphia rally as he told them to "do a better job" in forcing Harris to answer questions.

He accused the vice president of not taking a single real question from a reporter since becoming the Democrat nominee.

Vance said: "The American people deserve to get to know the people who want to lead them, and I think it’s shameful for Kamala Harris, but increasingly for the media, that she is taking a basement strategy of running from reporters instead of getting in front of them and answering tough questions about her record and letting the American people know who she is."

In his message to introduce Trump during a campaign at Georgia State University, Vance reiterated his claim about the Democrats being responsible for the recent assassination attempt on the ex-president's life.

He said: "They couldn't beat him politically, so they tried to bankrupt him. They failed at that, so they tried to impeach him. They failed at that, so they tried to put him in prison.

"They even tried to kill him."

The FBI launched a probe into the incident but found no evidence that could support Vance's claim.

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