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JD Vance Goes on Turkey Tirade While Serving Thanksgiving Meal to Troops: ‘You’re All Full of S**t’
Apparently Vice President JD Vance wasn’t too excited to gobble up the main course this Thanksgiving, but he did squawk about turkey while visiting troops at Fort Campbell in Kentucky November 26.
“Who really likes—be honest with yourself—who really likes turkey?” the Hillbilly Elegy author, 41, asked a crowd of soldiers after serving them an early Thanksgiving meal alongside his wife, Usha Vance, sons 8-year-old Ewan and 5-year-old Vivek, and daughter, 3-year-old Mirabel.
When members of the audience raised their hands, the Ohio native replied, “You’re all full of s**t, everybody who raised your hand.”
Vance went on to rant about why he doesn’t enjoy eating turkey. “Here’s how I know every single one of you who raised your hand is lying to me,” he said. “How many times do you roast an 18 pound turkey, just randomly? Just, you know, a nice summer afternoon, we’re gonna go get an 18 pound turkey. Nobody does it, ‘cause turkey doesn’t actually taste that good.”
He then acknowledged that—like it or not—the bird is part of an American tradition. “We’re gonna cook a turkey, by God, because that’s what Americans do,” he said. “We cook this gigantic American bird, and we do all kinds of crazy things to make it taste good.”
Vance revealed his plans to deep fry his own turkey this Thanksgiving holiday. “Here’s the thing: If you’ve got to deep fry something to make it taste good, it probably isn’t that good. That’s a pretty good rule of thumb when it comes to food.”
Chicken, it seems, is still in the vice president’s good graces. “Chicken is good all the time,” he said.
