JD Vance made another gold-medal blunder.
Not long after the U.S. women’s gymnastics team topped the Olympics podium on Tuesday, one more round of poorly aged comments from the Ohio senator and Republican vice presidential candidate came to light, this time focusing on star gymnast Simone Biles.
Back in 2021, before he was a U.S. senator, Vance had a strange take on Biles’ decision to step back from the Tokyo Games after she was overcome by a case of “the twisties,” an often-dangerous condition in which athletes temporarily lose their sense of spatial awareness while midair.
While he was somewhat sympathetic to Biles’ situation, Vance told a panel on Fox News’ “Outnumbered” that celebrating her decision to withdraw from the Games showed how soft the world has gotten.
Another one of JD Vance’s comments is coming back to haunt him, this time about Olympian Simone Biles.
“Well, I think, obviously, it’s understandable that she was going through an incredible amount of pressure,” the “Hillbilly Elegy” author began. “What I find so weird about this, and it reflects on the media more than it does on Simone Biles, is that we’ve tried to turn a very tragic moment — Simone Biles quitting the Olympic team — into this act of heroism.”