Oprah Winfrey mocked J.D. Vance for his remarks about “childless cat ladies” during her speech at the Democratic National Convention.
Oprah Winfrey mocked J.D. Vance’s remarks about “childless cat ladies” during her speech at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday, August 21. The crowd in Chicago erupted into loud applause when Winfrey suddenly appeared on stage.
In her convention speech, Winfrey welcomed “childless cat ladies.” She said:
We are not so different from our neighbors. When a house is on fire, we don’t ask about the homeowner’s race or religion. We don’t wonder who their partner is or how they voted. And if the place happens to belong to a childless cat lady — well, we try and get that cat out too.
“Bunch of childless cat ladies”
In 2021, Vance told Fox News host Tucker Carlson that the country is run by “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 miserable too.” He was widely criticised after the clip surfaced following Donald Trump’s announcement that he had chosen Vance as his running mate.
Vance later defended his statement, telling journalist Megyn Kelly:
Obviously it was a sarcastic comment. People are focusing so much on the sarcasm and not on the substance of what I actually said.
He added that he meant to say that “having children, becoming a father, becoming a mother, I do think it changes your perspective in a pretty profound way.”
Meanwhile at the DNC, Winfrey praised many of her predecessors for their powerful speeches on abortion. She said:
Now, over the last couple of nights, we have all seen great people walk onto the stage and share their most private pain. They told us their stories of … near-death experiences from having the state deny them the abortion that their doctor explained was medically necessary.
