Usha, U Good??

At a Turning Point USA event on Wednesday, Vice President JD Vance said he’s working on converting her damned soul.

By Danielle Han | October 31, 2025 | 5:30pm

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I’m no fan of Usha Vance… but it can’t be easy living with a walking ick who steals your eyeliner, prefers couches over your company, and whose ballooned face haunts you everywhere you travel. And while Usha has been completely complicit in everything… she’s got to stand up at some point, right? Right?!

At a Turning Point USA event at the University of Mississippi on Wednesday, a South Asian student challenged Vice President JD Vance’s views on immigration and asked, “You are raising three kids in an intercultural, racial, religious household. How are you teaching them that your kind…is different, or is better than your mom’s kind, who got here just a generation before?” She added, “Why are we making Christianity one of the major things that you have in common to be one of you guys, to show that I love America just as much as you do?” Vance, husband of the year, lamented about his wife’s not-yet-saved soul.

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You learn a lot about a man’s character by watching how he reacts when his own family is unfairly targeted.

Usha grew up in a devout Hindu household, her own words, spoken multiple times, including with JD Vance sitting right beside her (second video). She has always identified… pic.twitter.com/dJYmxlmqUS

— THE SKIN DOCTOR (@theskindoctor13) October 30, 2025

“Yes, my wife did not grow up Christian,” Vance replied. Adding that when they met, neither of them was “particularly religious.” “Most Sundays, Usha will come with me to church. As I’ve told her and I’ve said publicly, and I’ll say now in front of 10,000 of my closest friends, do I hope eventually that she is somehow moved by the same thing that I was moved by in church? Yeah, I honestly do wish that, because I believe in the Christian gospel and I hope eventually my wife comes to see it the same way.”

There are a lot of things wrong with that, and it goes beyond Vance thinking he has 10,000 buddies. And the racist undertones of his fantasizing about converting his wife from Hinduism—a religion that goes back over 4,000 years and is followed by over 3 million Americans—did not go unnoticed.

Just imagine being Usha Vance’s parents, who immigrated from India in the 1970s and spoke Telugu, and having your greasy racist son-in-law smearing your family for political points. https://t.co/XXxsQKuNlF

— Tim Spalding 🇺🇦 (@librarythingtim) October 30, 2025

“He calls her agnostic. Afraid to admit her Hindu origin,” former Indian Foreign Secretary tweeted on Thursday. “Where has all this talk of religious freedom gone?” “Folks, believe the far-right when they say Christian is the only legitimate religious identity,” Dr. Ashley Truschke, a South Asian history scholar, tweeted. “They mean it.” And in a now-deleted post, right-wing media personality Ezra Levant tweeted, “It’s weird to throw your wife’s religion under the bus, in public, for a moment’s acceptance by groypers,” referring to a group of far-right Christian nationalists associated with Nick Fuentes.

On Friday, Vance fired back at Levant. “What a disgusting comment, and it’s hardly been the only one along these lines,” he tweeted. He then accused Levant of pushing “anti-Christian bigotry,” adding, “Yes, Christians have beliefs. And yes, those beliefs have many consequences, one of which is that we want to share them with other people.”

What a disgusting comment, and it’s hardly been the only one along these lines.

First off, the question was from a person seemingly to my left, about my interfaith marriage. I’m a public figure, and people are curious, and I wasn’t going to avoid the question.

Second, my… https://t.co/JOzN7WAg3A

— JD Vance (@JDVance) October 31, 2025

According to a poll by the Public Religion Research Institute, a third of Americans believe Trump’s rise to power is a part of the Lord’s Big Plan. And at the Charlie Kirk memorial in September, Vance gave a speech that, very weirdly, encouraged everyone to “put on the full armor of God,” while Marco Rubio referenced the resurrection of Jesus, and Erika Kirk shared a lesson on forgiveness and grace. Also this week, Vance said you should speak English unto thine neighbors, as they too, would have you do.

In June, in an interview with Meghan McCain, Usha said she has no intention of converting, that Vance wasn’t Catholic when he first met her, and that he converted later. She has not issued a comment or statement on Vance’s Thursday night speech.

In addition to throwing his wife under the bus, the internet noticed that Vance seemed very…friendly with Kirk. At Wednesday’s event, the widowed Kirk gave the vice president an, er, intimate hug and said she saw some similarities between him and her late husband. Usha. Stand up, girl.

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