A New York Times columnist wrote on social media this week that J.D. Vance’s mother should have sold him for drugs during his childhood.
The comments were made by Jamelle Bouie, a columnist for The New York Times, in a series of posts on the left-wing social media platform Bluesky on Wednesday.
Bouie’s remarks followed a recent interview Vance gave to the Daily Mail, in which the vice president declined to apologize to the family of Minnesota shooting victim Alex Pretti.
“This is a wicked man who knows he is being wicked and does it anyway,” he wrote.
“Like, do you see that smirk? That brief ‘ain’t i a stinker’ grin? beneath contempt.”
this is a wicked man who knows he is being wicked and does it anyway
— jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) 4 February 2026 at 16:41
Responding to another user who described Vance as “pompous,” Bouie wrote, “No wonder his mom tried to sell him for Percocets.”
“I can’t imagine a parent who wouldn’t sell little JD for Percocet if they knew he would turn out like this.”
“To be a bit serious one irony of vance’s life is that he is also an addict: addicted to power and clearly willing to sell anything to get it.”
i can’t imagine a parent who wouldn’t sell little JD for percocet if they knew he would turn out like this bsky.app/profile/parm…
— jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) 4 February 2026 at 16:46
Bouie later said that a Fox News story about his remarks was “really funny.”
this is very funny www.foxnews.com/media/jd-van…
— jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) 6 February 2026 at 10:01
Vance has publicly discussed his mother’s struggle with addiction throughout his career, most notably in his 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy.
In the book, Vance described his mother, Beverly Aikins, developing an addiction after receiving prescription medication and spoke of the damaging ways it affected his childhood.
“I knew that a mother could love her son despite the grip of addiction,” he wrote about his mother’s recovery.
“I knew that my family loved me, even when they struggled to take care of themselves.”
In April last year, Vance marked his mother’s tenth year of sobriety during an event at the White House.
Aikins currently works at a substance abuse treatment center in Cincinnati, Ohio.
@VP JD Vance marked a powerful moment at the White House on Friday — celebrating his mom Bev’s 10 years of sobriety with their family. Congratulations! pic.twitter.com/KgXHlEcjE2
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) April 7, 2025
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