JD Vance is being called out for his response to Donald Trump‘s “smile” comment at CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins.

If you don’t know what happened, CNN chief White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins was asking questions about Epstein survivors during a Q&A with the 79-year-old POTUS.

“What would you say to survivors–” she started to ask, before Trump interrupted and said, “You are so bad. You know, you are the worst reporter. No wonder—CNN has no ratings because of people like you. She’s a young woman. I don’t think I’ve ever seen you smile. I’ve known you for 10 years. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a smile on your face. You know why you’re not smiling? Because you know you’re not telling the truth, and you’re a very dishonest organization, and they should be ashamed of you.”

JD Vance went on Megyn Kelly‘s show and defended the POTUS’ response, saying, “She’s asking a question, the president says, ‘Why don’t you ever smile?’ Yeah, it’s actually, like, so perceptive. Even if you’re asking a tough question, even if you take your job very seriously, like, does it always have to be so antagonistic?”

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He added, “Have some fun, right? You can’t always take yourself too seriously. You’re gonna have a heart attack. And that’s too much of the Washington press corps. And of course, they don’t act like that when the other guys are in power, so there is a political bias angle to it.”

“I’m not saying you have to agree with everything that me or President Trump do, but nobody is angry all the time, and when you come across as angry all the time, it’s just fake,” he added later.

Some responses to this online include a repost on X saying, “Dismiss survivors. Mock the journalist. Applaud the cruelty.” and another writing, “JD Vance went silent for 4 days amid the new Epstein Files and then re-emerged to: – Glaze a guy whose lyrics are ‘I like ‘em underage, see some say that’s statutory, but I say it’s mandatory’ – Say Kaitlan Collins should’ve smiled more when she asked Trump about Epstein victims.”

He also defended Trump with regard to Epstein headlines.