{"id":24848,"date":"2025-11-01T05:08:40","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T05:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/24848\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T05:08:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T05:08:40","slug":"podcaster-jennifer-welch-calls-jd-vance-a-failed-drag-queen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/24848\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcaster Jennifer Welch calls JD Vance a &#8216;failed drag queen&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <img width=\"792\" height=\"416\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/JD-Vance-1.webp\" class=\"attachment-featured-image size-featured-image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">JD Vance seemingly wore women\u2019s clothes in college (Drew Hallowell\/Getty)<\/p>\n<p>Former Bravo star and podcaster Jennifer Welch has labelled US vice president JD Vance a \u201cfailed drag queen\u201d, in reference to alleged pictures of him in college in a wig and skirt.<\/p>\n<p>During the presidential election campaign in August 2024 a photograph that people believed depicted JD Vance, then Donald Trump\u2019s running mate on the Republican ticket, appeared on social media and quickly went viral because it appeared to show the staunchly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepinknews.com\/2024\/07\/16\/trumps-running-mate-jd-vance-is-sadly-but-predictably-anti-lgbtq\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">anti-LGBTQ+<\/a>, anti-drag GOP politician dragged up.<\/p>\n<p>The image, reportedly taken at a party at Ivy League university Yale in 2012, shows someone who resembled JD Vance in a skirt, blonde wig and sporting thick black eye-liner.<\/p>\n<p>JD Vance <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepinknews.com\/2024\/08\/12\/jd-vance-drag-denial-us-election\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">refused to confirm<\/a> if the photograph was actually of him.<\/p>\n<p>During a recent episode of Welch\u2019s popular left-wing podcast I\u2019ve Had It she, alongside Pod Save America host Tommy Vietor, hit out at Vance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is a failed drag queen,\u201d she said. \u201cHe wanted to be a drag queen. He couldn\u2019t do it. He wasn\u2019t fabulous enough. He goes off to Peter Thiel\u2019s gay boot camp in Silicon Valley and he comes out like a sociopathic queer-eyed freakshow. You know, he\u2019d be so much cooler if he\u2019d just come out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a group of DL demon queens\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Welch went on to allege that many key figures in MAGA circles are not straight and are using Christian nationalist policies to hide their true sexualities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have this whole theory, Tommy, that in the MAGA movement, there\u2019s a group of DL demon queens,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd I think that a lot of them are mad that they can\u2019t come out and feel pride. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd so they browbeat everybody all day long, and then they get on Grindr at night, and then they go do gay stuff and they wake up. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI grew up in a red state around all these evangelicals, and they think s**t like this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vietor agreed with her, saying she is \u201cso right about the repressed\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s so many people who are repressing something and then acting out in a way that is evil and cruel towards the part of themselves that they hate,\u201d he said. \u201cYou just see that over and over and over again.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JD Vance seemingly wore women\u2019s clothes in college (Drew Hallowell\/Getty) Former Bravo star and podcaster Jennifer Welch has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[15968,11749,9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-24848","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-gay","9":"tag-jd-vance","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-queens","14":"tag-queens-headlines","15":"tag-queens-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}