NYT columnist says he can’t think of any parent who 'wouldn’t sell' JD Vance for drugs

New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie suggested that Vice President JD Vance should have been sold by his mother in exchange for drugs in a series of tongue-in-cheek posts on social media this week.

Bouie was calling out Vance and criticizing him for not apologizing to 37-year-old nurse Alex Pretti's family after ICE agents fatally shot him in Minneapolis last month, Fox News reported. Vance had accused Pretti of "ill intent" when he arrived at the scene of a protest before agents attacked and killed him.

Bouie made it clear that he disagreed with Vance's comments and laid into the vice president in a series of Bluesky posts.

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

"[I] can’t imagine a parent who wouldn’t sell little JD for percocet if they knew he would turn out like this," Bouie wrote.

[T]o 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," Bouie added.

Vance's mother has been sober for 10 years, which Fox News pointed out, adding that Vance held a celebration to honor her accomplishment.