Sen. JD Vance Called People Without Kids ‘Psychotic’ & ‘Deranged’ In 2020 Interview

Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) has repeatedly made negative comments about individuals without children over the years.

During Vance’s first election campaign three years ago, he appeared on Fox News and declared what he perceived as a crisis plaguing America. 

He stated on Fox News that the country was being run “by a bunch of 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. And it’s just a basic fact.”

After facing backlash, Vance tried to claim that his comments were “sarcastic.” 

But records show that the senator has repeatedly made similar remarks in a series of emails which called liberal leaders “childless sociopaths” who “don’t have a direct stake in this country.”

During a 2020 appearance on The Chris Buskirk Show podcast, the senator stated that people without children in the country’s leadership had less stake in society than those with children.

“There are just these basic cadences of life that I think are really powerful and really – really valuable when you have kids in your life,” Vance stated. “And the fact that so many people, especially in America’s leadership class, just don’t have that in their lives.”

“You know, I worry that it makes people more sociopathic and ultimately our whole country a little bit less – less mentally stable,” he claimed. “And of course, you talk about going on Twitter – a final point I’ll make is you go on Twitter, and almost always the people who are most deranged and most psychotic are people who don’t have kids at home.”

On July 24, actress Jennifer Aniston slammed Vance for his comments in 2021 about childless political figures, sharing her disbelief in an Instagram story that a vice presidential candidate would insult childless women. 

In late July, singer Kesha also criticized Vance for his remarks.