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JD Vance admits ‘childless cat ladies’ comment was ‘one of the dumbest things’ he ever said
Vice President JD Vance has finally come clean on his controversial “childless cat ladies” comment — as he prepares for a potential White House run in 2028.
In his new memoir, Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith, Vance admits that the insult he lobbed on Tucker Carlson's since-canceled Fox News show was an “error,” NBC News reported Monday.
“One of the dumbest things I ever said came when I argued that ‘childless cat ladies’ across the Democrat Party were running our country into the ground,” Vance writes in the book, due out Tuesday. “It was a boneheaded comment, intentionally (and successfully) provocative rather than illuminating.”
Vance was riding high on the success of his bestselling memoir Hillbilly Elegy and running to represent Ohio in the U.S. Senate when he made the rude remark in 2021.
Vance disparaged Democrats as “a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made and so they want to make the rest of the country..
Trump unveils ‘potential marble armrests’ for seats at the Kennedy Center: ‘Unlike anything ever done or seen before’
President Donald Trump has shared photos of “potential marble armrests” for the seats at the Kennedy Center, shortly after his name was added to the building.
The armrests are “unlike anything ever done or seen before,” Trump wrote Friday on Truth Social. His post comes just days after the White House announced plans to rename the Washington, D.C., landmark the “Trump-Kennedy Center.”
The Independent has contacted the Kennedy Center for comment.
Trump’s post about the potential installation of marble armrests drew criticism on social media, including from Democratic Senator Andy Kim.
“Americans are struggling to keep food on the table while Trump is spending your money on wasteful vanity projects. He doesn’t care about you,” Kim wrote on X.
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Flooding across Asia leaves 600 dead and hundreds missing
Flooding across Asia leaves 600 dead and hundreds missing8 hours agoShareSaveJessica RawnsleyShareSaveGetty ImagesSearch and rescue operations are ongoing across Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and Sri Lanka, with hundreds still missingTorrential rains have triggered floods and landslides across parts of southern Asia, killing around 600 people.
Monsoon rain exacerbated by tropical storms caused some of the region's worst flooding in years, with millions affected in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Sri Lanka.
Intense rainfall began on the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Wednesday. “During the flood, everything was gone,” a resident of Bireuen in Sumatra's Aceh province told Reuters news agency. “I wanted to save my clothes, but my house came down.”
With hundreds still missing, the death toll is likely to rise. Thousands remain stranded, some awaiting rescue on rooftops.
As of Saturday more than 300 people had died in Indonesia and 160 in Thailand. There were also several deat..