Overview
- Jamelle Bouie wrote that he “can’t imagine a parent who wouldn’t sell little JD for percocet if they knew he would turn out like this,” in a series of Bluesky posts.
- He also called the vice president “a wicked man” and said Vance is “addicted to power and clearly willing to sell anything to get it.”
- Bouie’s posts followed Vance’s comments asserting Alex Pretti showed up with “ill intent” and his refusal in a Daily Mail interview to apologize to Pretti’s family after ICE agents fatally shot him.
- Coverage from right- and left-leaning outlets highlighted the personal nature of Bouie’s jab and its tie to the dispute over the Minneapolis shooting, and Bouie later reacted to a Fox News write-up by posting, “this is very funny.”
- Vance has publicly detailed his mother Beverly Aikins’ past addiction in Hillbilly Elegy, celebrated her ten years of sobriety at a White House event in 2025, and she is listed as a nurse at Seacrest Recovery Center.