JD Vance: Trump Can’t Be Racist Because He Called Wife Usha ‘Beautiful’

JD Vance said Donald Trump could not be racist—despite his past association with white supremacist Nick Fuentes—because of the “quality time” he’s spent with his wife.

Vance dismissed Fuentes’ openly xenophobic comments about his wife in an interview with ABC’s Jonathan Karl on Sunday after Karl noted the “racist garbage” Fuentes had lobbed his way. Fuentes questioned Vance’s marriage to Usha Vance in a podcast last month, wondering “what kind of a man marries somebody named Usha? Clearly, he doesn’t value his racial identity, his heritage.”

Still, Karl noted, Trump has not completely disavowed the white supremacist after he hosted Fuentes—alongside conspiratorial rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, for dinner in November 2022. “That was back a year and a half ago, and Trump still hasn’t given a full-throated denouncement of this guy,” Karl said. “I mean, he’s a white supremacist.”

Read more at The Daily Beast.