Vice President JD Vance aimed at former Vice President Kamala Harris during an interview published this week, insinuating that alcohol habits were behind her “word salads.”
Vance contrasted his performance with Harris’s, and he even speculated about the nature of the relationship between Harris and former President Joe Biden.
“Well, I don’t have four shots of vodka before every meeting,” Vance told radio host and Daily Caller editor Vince Coglianese in an interview that aired Thursday. “That’s one way I think that Kamala tried to bring herself into the role, is these word salads. I think I would need the help of a lot of alcohol to answer a question the way that Kamala Harris answered questions.”
Vance then expressed his suspicion that Harris and Biden don’t share the same level of trust that he and President Donald Trump enjoy, clarifying that his view is based on “guesswork” since he rarely speaks with either Biden or Harris.
“My sense is that there wasn’t a level of trust between Biden and Harris,” Vance said. “She was just less empowered to do her job. Luckily, I’m in a situation where the president trusts me, where if he asks me to do something, he believes it’s going to happen. … I feel empowered in a way that I think a lot of vice presidents haven’t been, but that’s all in the service of accomplishing the president’s vision.”
During her tenure as VP, Harris often faced criticism and mocking for confounding remarks in which she jumbled words, including when she said, “I grew up understanding the children of the community are the children of the community” in September 2024.
Ironically, Harris, a former Democratic senator from California, now works with CAA Speakers, a firm representing high-profile celebrities, to conduct speaking engagements, Fox News revealed.
A spokesperson for Vance confirmed that the vice president made the remarks on the podcast, but declined to offer further comment to Fox News.
All said, however, the current VP also poked some fun at himself during the interview, Fox added.
Vance, who became the subject of thousands of memes circulating online after the heated Oval Office meeting between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in February, said he finds them entertaining.
🚨NEW: @JDVance says that these two memes of him are his personal favorites from the trend, in an exclusive interview with @VinceCoglianese. pic.twitter.com/xCadav42EX
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) March 20, 2025
Specifically, he likes the one based on a character played by Leonardo DiCaprio, who is pointing at the television from the 2019 film “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” as well as another swapping his face with members of the rock band Van Halen.
“I’m a personal fan of Vance Halen, but that’s because I really like the band Van Halen,” Vance said. “So that’s just my personal preferences. I don’t know how it happened or where it came from, but it’s been very, very funny to watch your own face become this meme. It’s made the job a lot more fun, so I encourage people to keep doing it.”
Harris delivered another of what some have described as a nonsensical “word salad” while attempting to give an inspirational message to the cast of Broadway’s “A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical,” last month.
Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, attended two Broadway shows, with the other being Gypsy, according to the New York Post.
After a standing ovation for A Wonderful World, Harris addressed the cast and crew with her speech.
“When we think about these moments where we see things that are being taken, but also, let’s see it, you know, nature abhors a vacuum,” Harris tells the musical’s cast in a clip shared on X.
“Where there’s a vacancy, let’s fill it. Let us know that the reality is that the progress of our nation has been about the expansion of rights, not the restriction of rights,” she added. “We’re seeing a U-turn right now. For those rights to be maintained, which means we have to be vigilant. It’s just the nature of it.”
NEW: Kamala Harris gives inspiring speech to the cast of ‘A Wonderful World’ on Broadway, inspires by noting how “nature abhors a vacuum.”
“When we think about these moments where we see things that are being taken but also let’s see it as you know, nature abhors a vacuum.”
“So… pic.twitter.com/IinA9ElmLV
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) February 16, 2025
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