JD Vance Defends Trump's Doll Talk — And It's Even Wilder Than You Think

Vice President JD Vance on Thursday defended President Donald Trump’s connection that children volition just person to deal with having less dolls arsenic a effect of his tariffs by offering parents a chaotic counterpoint: Those kids could spell to war.

“What I’d inquire radical is not whether they privation 2 dolls oregon 5 dolls oregon 20 dolls for their kids...,” Vance told Fox News’ Martha MacCallum.

“I’d inquire American moms and dads ... Would you similar to — God forbid, if your state goes to warfare and your lad oregon girl is sent disconnected to combat — would you similar to cognize that the weapons that they person are bully American-made stuff, not made by a overseas adversary.”

Vance, who besides diverted from the dolls speech by arguing that kids’ medicine drugs could go much disposable successful American pharmacies, noted that Trump’s constituent was astir “bringing self-reliance back” to the U.S. economy.

“And that’s not going to hap overnight, and that’s not ever going to beryllium easy, Martha,” helium said earlier successful the program.

Vance’s comments travel conscionable 1 time aft Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham that helium would reassure a small miss with less dolls that they would person a “better life” than their parents and acquisition “economic freedom” acknowledgment to Trump.

Earlier this week, Mattel — the shaper of Barbies and different fashionable artifact lines — announced that it would hike prices connected prime products successful the U.S. owed to higher costs linked to Trump’s tariffs.

Social media users connected X, formerly Twitter, swiftly clowned Vance implicit his warfare talk.

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