JD Vance should have been sold by his mother for drugs, NYT columnist says

Fox News ^ | 02/05/2026 | Lindsay Kornick

[DFG]

New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie suggested Vice President JD Vance's mother was right to have attempted to sell him for drugs in a Bluesky post on Wednesday.

In a series of comments on the left-wing platform, Bouie criticized Vance for a recent interview with the Daily Mail where he declined to apologize to Minnesota shooting victim Alex Pretti's family after accusing him of showing up with "ill intent" at an immigration enforcement protest.

"[T]his is a wicked man who knows he is being wicked and does it anyway," Bouie wrote.

He added, "like, do you see that smirk? that brief 'ain’t i a stinker' grin? beneath contempt."

Bouie also responded to a comment calling Vance "pompous" while musing "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," Bouie remarked.

He added, "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."

Fox News Digital reached out to The New York Times and Vance's office for comment.

Vance has frequently discussed his mother, Beverly Aikins, and her history of addiction during his childhood.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: beverlyaikins; bluesky; fian; goodforjamelle; goodtozotatroll; jamellebouie; jdvance; nyt; racistpos; whatshisfrnick

[one guy in new jersey]

Vance must be right over the target.

[misterdarcey]

Note that, given this excerpt, Jamelle is illiterate on punctuation and spelling.

[T.B. Yoits]

It’s great that Jamelle Bouie and the New York Times management have taken this opportunity to show the world just how mentally depraved they are.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Does anyone think that Trump Derangement Syndrome is going to die with Trump once he leaves office when and if Vance takes his place (or Rubio or DeSantis or anyone else remotely conservative for that matter). If Vance takes office, get ready for the ugliest of classist comments coming from elite NYT columnists.

[blackdog]

Well, that septic tank posing as a news organization certainly just put an end to the posing part.

[Organic Panic]

They hate any republicans with the same amount of vitriol. But Trump is the first one who sticks it right back in their faces. And they are kept in a constant state of insane rage by it.

[healy61]

Someone needs to explain to Jamelle that like it or not he was born with a silver spoon stuck up his a**. Jamelle! Indeed. A writer from Slate.

[Nifty]

From Wiki

Jamelle Antoine Bouie (/dʒəˈmɛl ˈbuː.iː/; born April 12, 1987) is an American columnist for The New York Times. He was formerly chief political correspondent for Slate. In 2019, writing in the Columbia Journalism Review, David Uberti called Bouie “one of the defining commentators on politics and race in the Trump era.”[1]

Bouie was awarded a writing fellowship for The American Prospect in 2010. He was awarded a Knobler Fellowship at the Nation Institute by The Nation in 2012.[7] Bouie became a staff writer for The Daily Beast in 2013,[8] writing about national politics.[9] In 2014, he moved to Slate as a chief political correspondent, covering politics, policy, and race.[10][11] He joined The New York Times as a columnist in 2019.[12][13]

Bouie was a contributor to Barack Obama and the New America: The 2012 Election and the Changing Face of Politics,[14] a 2013 book edited by political scientist Larry Sabato.[15] Bouie has been a political analyst on CBS News since 2015.[16][12] He frequently appears on Face the Nation,[17][18][19] the network’s Sunday morning show,[20] and contributed to the network’s 2016 election night coverage.[21] Bouie writes articles focusing on history, public policy, and national politics. He also writes about entertainment, such as science fiction, comics, and film.[22] He has reviewed breakfast cereal for Serious Eats.[23]

[Fai Mao]

“Does anyone think that Trump Derangement Syndrome is going to die with Trump once he leaves office “

I remember the vilification of every Republican President since Nixon. It isn’t TDS syndrome as much as an escalating RDS.

[No name given]

That’s all the lefties ever do is show how deranged they are.

[No name given]

True.

[ActresponsiblyinVA]

I hope TDS will not infect the good judgment the US needs for future decisions.

[AppyPappy]

A tantrum from a liberal. How ordinary.

[Pete Dovgan]

New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie

If the NYT was a real periodical, the headline would read:
The FORMER New York Times Columnist....

[lado]

Their brains have been permanently altered by Trump; they can never go back. It’s been over 10 years since Trump gave his escalator speech, and the deranged left has had to deal with it, and they still have three more years to deal with it! They’re going to be messed-up people from now until the end of their days, and that includes all the progressive, mouthy white women. I think they’ll apply their rage to everyone who comes after him, no matter how milquetoast they are.

[econjack]

I guess we're supposed to ignore when he kicked an ICE car and broke the tail light.

Isn't it odd how the protestors agitate in a fraud-riddled state but the other 49 ICE do their jobs with minor interference? Or are the paid protestors there to redirect the attention away from the fraud? Do malevolent people do evil by spraying vinegar, or was that just a Jesse Smollett charade to deflect attention from her complicit involvement in fraud? How does one go from literally zero wealth to over $10 million in four years, citing a vineyard that hasn't sold a single bottle of wine? There's a lot of BS skidding around in MN.

[milagro]

No kidding :(!

[Irenic]

A mind that thinks like that...sad.

[Sirius Lee]

Isn't it odd how the protestors agitate in a fraud-riddled state but the other 49 ICE do their jobs with minor interference?

Also weird that it's all paid Antifa and/or AWFULS. No Somalians to be seen. Must not be a single one who is here legally.