White Nationalist Escalates Attack on Usha Vance After Vice President’s ‘Eat Shit’ Rebuke

A day after Vice President JD Vance told white nationalist Nick Fuentes to “eat shit” for using a racial slur against Second Lady Usha Vance, Fuentes escalated his attacks with explicitly racist comments about Indian culture and people—exposing the depths of bigotry that continues to plague segments of the American right.

The exchange, which unfolded between December 22-23, 2025, has become a flashpoint in an ongoing civil war within conservatism over racism, antisemitism, and who belongs in the Republican coalition.

Vance’s Initial Rebuke: “That’s My Official Policy”

In an exclusive interview with British publication UnHerd published Monday, December 22, 2025, Vice President Vance directly addressed months of racist attacks against his wife by Fuentes and his followers, known as Groypers.

“Let me be clear,” Vance stated according to UnHerd. “Anyone who attacks my wife, whether their name is Jen Psaki or Nick Fuentes, can eat shit. That’s my official policy as vice president of the United States.”

According to CNN, HuffPost, and multiple other sources, Vance added: “Antisemitism, and all forms of ethnic hatred, have no place in the conservative movement. Whether you’re attacking somebody because they’re white or because they’re black or because they’re Jewish, I think it’s disgusting.”

The statement represented Vance’s most direct condemnation of Fuentes after months of pressure from Jewish groups and others to denounce the Holocaust-denying podcaster who has used the ethnic slur “jeet” to describe Usha Vance and called the vice president a “race traitor” for his interracial marriage.

Fuentes’s Background of Hate

Fuentes previously slammed Vance’s appointment as vice president during a livestream, calling him “a fat, race mixer who’s married to a jeet, who named his son Vivek.”

According to UnHerd, Fuentes has also been documented using liberal use of the N-word and promoting “overt white racial politics.” He is a Holocaust denier who has stated that Hitler was “really f-ing cool,” according to multiple sources.

Despite this history, Fuentes has maintained significant influence within far-right circles, with millions of followers on social media platforms.

The “Traditional Indian Dinner” Response

Rather than backing down after Vance’s rebuke, Fuentes escalated dramatically. On Tuesday night, December 23, 2025, during his “America First” podcast, Fuentes delivered a response dripping with sarcasm and laden with explicitly racist comments about Indian culture.

According to Sportskeeda and multiple sources reporting on Fuentes’s podcast, he stated:

“I really appreciate the invitation. It’s very gracious. I’ve said a lot of negative things about JD Vance, so for him to extend an invitation like that to me to have dinner, a traditional Indian dinner with him and his family, it actually moved me, it actually touched me a little bit.”

Fuentes continued with mock gratitude, according to Sportskeeda: “I said I’ve been nothing but antagonistic to this guy, really unprovoked – I started the beef. And so for him, in the spirit of the holiday and the spirit of Christmas, for him to extend an invitation in public like that to enjoy a traditional Indian dinner prepared by his wife with his family at the Naval Observatory – he’s a better man than me and I gotta give him a lot of credit for that. Credit where it is due.”

Then came the explicitly racist pivot:

“But respectfully, I must decline. That’s sort of the whole point. I don’t want to eat shit.”

Escalating to Explicit Racism Against Indians

Fuentes then launched into overtly racist comments about Indian people and culture, according to Sportskeeda’s reporting on his podcast:

“We don’t want them here because we don’t want to eat shit. I know they do that in India. I know they literally eat cow shit, I know that they will scratch their ass and then prepare food and eat shit that way also.”

“We don’t want them here because we don’t want to eat shit. I know they do that in India. I know they literally eat cow shit, I know that they will scratch their ass and then prepare food and eat shit that way also.”

He continued, according to the same source: “We don’t want them here because we don’t eat shit in America. We try to avoid eating shit as much as possible. It’s why we wash our hands. So, respectfully, I will have to decline. Thank you, but no thank you. I will not be eating shit. I wish you the best on your Christmas Eve dinner. I hope that goes well for you guys.”

Additional Attacks on Vivek Ramaswamy

Fuentes’s December 23 podcast also targeted Vivek Ramaswamy, who had condemned Fuentes at the Turning Point USA AmericaFest conference days earlier.

According to Sportskeeda, Fuentes told Ramaswamy: “This is not your home. And you know it’s not your home. That’s why you married an Indian, and you had Indian kids. You gave them Indian names. You didn’t assimilate… You should go back to India, where there are a lot more people like you… You don’t want to be called a ‘jeet’? Go the f*ck home then.”

In a separate clip reported by Sportskeeda, Fuentes also stated: “You compare yourself to European inventors. The difference is Europeans are geniuses who invented things. You invented nothing. You are a scammer.”

The Context: Ramaswamy’s AmericaFest Speech

Ramaswamy had addressed Fuentes directly during his speech at Turning Point USA’s annual AmericaFest conference in Phoenix on Friday, December 20, 2025.

According to Sportskeeda, Ramaswamy stated that people who referred to Usha Vance as a “jeet” did not belong in the future of the conservative movement. He also called out Fuentes for allegedly praising Hitler, saying that people who supported normalizing hatred toward any ethnic group had no place in the conservative movement.

Ramaswamy had also published a New York Times op-ed on December 18, 2025, in which he wrote, according to multiple sources: “If, like Mr. Fuentes, you believe that Hitler was ‘really f-ing cool,’ or if you publicly call Usha Vance a ‘jeet,’ then you have no place in the conservative movement, period.”

Vance’s Complicated Calculus

While Vance condemned Fuentes in the UnHerd interview, he also took pains to minimize the podcaster’s significance and defend other controversial figures.

According to UnHerd, when asked about Fuentes’s promotion of overt white racial politics, Vance responded: “Let’s say you believe, as I do, that racism is bad, that we should judge people according to their deeds and not their ethnicity. Is Nick Fuentes really the problem in this country? He’s a podcaster. He has a dedicated group of young fans, and some of them have been shitty to my friends and family. Does that annoy me? Of course. But let’s keep some perspective.”

According to CNN, Vance said he gets “a million times” more angry at Democrats like Representatives Ro Khanna and Chris Murphy for supporting affirmative action that disadvantages white and Asian kids than he does at Fuentes for calling his family racial slurs.

CNN’s analysis noted that Vance “seems to be gambling that this whole internal feud will go away eventually, and that he can get through it without totally alienating anyone.”

The Broader MAGA Civil War

The Fuentes-Vance exchange is part of a larger internecine battle within the conservative movement over racism and antisemitism.

According to CNN, the conflict reached a boiling point at the December 2025 Turning Point USA conference, where Ben Shapiro denounced Tucker Carlson—who had given Fuentes a friendly interview—for “moral imbecility.” Steve Bannon and Megyn Kelly then denounced Shapiro in turn, representing what CNN characterized as the “insurgent Israel-critical camp.”

According to UnHerd, in October 2025, “flagrantly racist, antisemitic and homophobic texts exchanged by young Republicans came to light.” Weeks later, when Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts released a video refusing to criticize Carlson for platforming Fuentes, senior officials and board members resigned in protest.

Vance’s Turning Point Address: Rejecting “Purity Tests”

In his Sunday, December 22, 2025 speech at AmericaFest—delivered after his “eat shit” comment to UnHerd but before Fuentes’s “traditional Indian dinner” response—Vance attempted to walk a careful line.

According to CNN and Attack of the Fanboy, Vance told the crowd: “President Trump did not build the greatest coalition in politics by running his supporters through endless self-defeating purity tests. He says, ‘Make America great again because every American is invited.'”

Vance added, according to CNN: “We have far more important work to do than canceling each other.”

However, CNN noted that Vance then “seemed to land firmly on [Tucker] Carlson’s side,” stating that he didn’t “bring a list of conservatives to denounce or to deplatform.”

According to CNN, Vance also called Minneapolis “Mogadishu”—a reference to Somali immigrants—in the same speech where he claimed ethnic hatred has no place in conservatism.

CNN’s analysis concluded: “So to recap Vance’s message: antisemitism doesn’t have a place in the GOP, but the party also shouldn’t have purity tests or cancel people. And there’s no place in the party for any ‘forms of ethnic hatred,’ but also have you seen how overrun Minneapolis is with Somalis?”

About Usha Vance

According to The Tribune India and Business Standard, Usha Vance, 39, is a litigator who clerked for Chief Justice John G. Roberts of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge Brett Kavanaugh, then of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

She and JD Vance met while attending Yale Law School and have three children: Ewan, Vivek, and Mirabel. According to RT, Usha has been forced to address speculation about her marriage after being seen on several occasions without her wedding ring. She told USA Today in December 2025: “I wear it [wedding ring] when I wear it.”

Usha Vance made history on January 20, 2025, as the first Indian American, first Telugu, and first Hindu Second Lady of the United States. Her parents immigrated from Andhra Pradesh, India, in the 1970s.

The Stakes for Indian Americans

The escalating attacks on Usha Vance occur against a backdrop of rising anti-Indian hate online and in political discourse.

According to The New York Times reporting cited in multiple sources, posts on X (formerly Twitter) that featured anti-Indian slurs, stereotypes, or narratives like “deport Indians” garnered 280 million views over about two months in 2025. Over the last month alone, another 29,000 mentions of such language appeared on the platform.

Raqib Hameed Naik, executive director of the Center for the Study of Organized Hate, told The Times: “The hateful rhetoric we are seeing right now is nothing like we have seen before.”

This story was aggregated by AI from several news reports and edited by American Kahani’s News Desk.