When Donald Trump‘s VP pick JD Vance made the ‘childless cat lady‘ jibe, he named Kamala Harris, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Pete Buttigieg. As the old comment resurfaced with both JD Vance and Kamala Harris emerging at the forefront of this year’s election, transport secretary Pete Buttigieg, who could be Kamala Harris’ VP pick, responded to the childless jibe and said one should not be talking about other people’s children.
“The really sad thing is, he said that after Chasten [Buttigieg] and I had been through a fairly heartbreaking setback in our adoption journey,” he said on the CNN.
“He couldn’t have known that, but maybe that’s why you shouldn’t be talking about other people’s children. And it’s not about his kids, or my kids, or the vice president’s family. It’s about your family, people’s families whose well-being will depend on whether we go into a future led by somebody like Kamala Harris who is focused on expanding the prosperity, the freedom, the well-being of our families,” Pete said.
“Or, do you want your children to grow up in a country defined by a return to the chaos and recrimination and cruelty that was the hallmark of the Trump era?” Pete said.
What JD Vance said in old interview
JD Vance said the country is being run by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they have made and so they want to make the rest of the country too miserable. “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?” asked Vance.
Kamala Harris became the stepmother to two teenagers when she married entertainment lawyer Douglas Emhoff in 2014. Buttigieg is the first openly gay Cabinet member married to Chasten Buttigieg, a teacher, author and an activist. They have two adopted children.
“The really sad thing is, he said that after Chasten [Buttigieg] and I had been through a fairly heartbreaking setback in our adoption journey,” he said on the CNN.
“He couldn’t have known that, but maybe that’s why you shouldn’t be talking about other people’s children. And it’s not about his kids, or my kids, or the vice president’s family. It’s about your family, people’s families whose well-being will depend on whether we go into a future led by somebody like Kamala Harris who is focused on expanding the prosperity, the freedom, the well-being of our families,” Pete said.
“Or, do you want your children to grow up in a country defined by a return to the chaos and recrimination and cruelty that was the hallmark of the Trump era?” Pete said.
What JD Vance said in old interview
JD Vance said the country is being run by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they have made and so they want to make the rest of the country too miserable. “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?” asked Vance.
Kamala Harris became the stepmother to two teenagers when she married entertainment lawyer Douglas Emhoff in 2014. Buttigieg is the first openly gay Cabinet member married to Chasten Buttigieg, a teacher, author and an activist. They have two adopted children.