Jen Psaki, the former press secretary for President Joe Biden, recently drew significant backlash following her critical remarks about Vice President JD Vance, particularly targeting his political aspirations and his marriage. Psaki, who has transitioned to hosting her own program on MSNBC, voiced her opinions during an appearance on the “I’ve Had It” podcast last Tuesday.

During the podcast discussion with hosts Jennifer Welch and Angie ‘Pumps’ Sullivan, Psaki addressed Vance’s ambitions to potentially follow in Donald Trump’s footsteps as the GOP nominee for the 2028 presidential race. She referred to him as a “little Manchurian candidate,” suggesting an intense desire to ascend to the presidency.

Psaki didn’t hold back, asserting her belief that Vance is prepared to do whatever it takes to attain his goals. “He’s scarier in certain ways,” she commented, describing him as both youthful and driven, capable of adapting his persona to fit the expectations of his audience.

Despite acknowledging his tenacity, Psaki expressed skepticism about Vance’s ability to capture the entire MAGA movement, claiming that he lacks what she termed “rizz,” a slang term for charisma.

‘He’s scarier in certain ways,’ she continued. ‘And he’s young and ambitious and agile in the sense that he’s a chameleon who makes himself into whatever he thinks the audience wants to hear from him.’

Psaki, however, does not believe Vance ‘can take the whole [MAGA] movement with him,’ declaring that the vice president has ‘no rizz’ – slang for ‘charisma.’

‘He just is a little odd,’ she said. ‘Trump’s odd in a different way.’

That’s when the MSNBC host cruelly went after Vance’s marriage to Usha, with whom he has three children. 

‘I always wonder what’s going on in the mind of his wife,’ she said. ‘Like “Are you OK? Blink four times. Come over here, we’ll save you.”‘

Psaki, who now hosts her own show on MSNBC , appeared on the I’ve Had It podcast Tuesday when she spoke mentioned the vice president’s ambitions to succeed Trump as the Republican nominee in the 2028 presidential election

She suggested in the interview that Vance may be abusing his wife, Usha, as she called him ‘scarier’ than President Donald Trump

Psaki was quickly rebuked for her remarks on social media, with White House Communications Director Steven Cheung suggesting she is ‘transferring her own personal issues onto others’ and dubbing the former press secretary ‘Jen Psucki.’

He went on to call her a ‘dumba** who has no comprehension of the truth and has to overcompensate for her lack of talent by saying untrue things.’

Cheung added: ‘Circle back on that, moron.’

The popular Libs of TikTok account also wrote that MSNBC ‘should be ashamed to pay her salary.’ 

Political commentator Link Lauren said she and Biden’s other former press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre ‘are in competition this week to seek who can be the worst press secretary.

‘Both are on press tours,’ he noted. ‘Both are utter calamities.’

Jean-Pierre has been facing her own backlash as she continues to insist she saw no signs of Biden’s declining mental acuity while serving as his press secretary.

Appearing on CBS Mornings on Monday, Jean-Pierre said she ‘never saw someone who “wasn’t there.”

‘I saw someone who understood policy, pushed us on policy and also understood history,’ she told the morning show co-hosts, who were left stunned by her claims.

When Jean-Pierre then repeated her assertion that Biden showed any obvious mental decline during his presidency on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the late night host abruptly ended the segment. 

Psaki was quickly rebuked for her remarks on social media, with White House Communications Director Steven Cheung dubbing her ‘Jen Psucki’

Biden’s other former press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is also facing backlash as she continues to insist she never saw the former president’s mental decline 

He noted that the then-president was a ‘dramatically different person’ during his notoriously poor performance in a debate with Donald Trump ahead of the 2024 presidential election.

‘And at 81 years old, that’s not entirely unexpected. You can imagine why people got so worried,’ Colbert added. 

‘No one is saying that he didn’t age,’ Jean-Pierre shot back.   

‘I’m talking about did he have… the mental acuity, was he able to govern? And the man that I saw nearly every day was someone who was engaging, understood policy, and was always putting the American people first.’

Colbert then fired back, saying: ‘I don’t think anybody questioned his heart or his policies. But it takes more than that to be the President of the United States.

‘And in a moment of great pressure on stage, we saw someone shock us and worry us, and nothing could assuage that worry. So I don’t think it was necessarily a betrayal of Joe Biden as other people saying, “We don’t think we were shown the Joe Biden that you saw.”‘

Jean-Pierre replied that every day she saw ‘a really ugly assault on someone who had 50-plus years of experience and who, again, objectively had done a good job as President of the United States.’

‘And it was heartbreaking to see that type of behavior,’ she added.

Still, she admitted that Biden’s debate performance was shocking and a disappointment, which Colbert said did not go far enough.

‘Disappointment is such a light term,’ an exasperated Colbert fired back. ‘It was harrowing.’

The Daily Mail has reached out to MSNBC for comment on Psaki’s remarks.