Vice President JD Vance just bodied a Fox News commentator so hard that the man probably needs to ice down his ego for a week. The whole thing started innocently enough, with a college kid complaining that burritos now cost twenty bucks, and it spiraled into one of the funniest political exchanges of the year, as The American Tribune covered in glorious detail.
Here is what happened. Turning Point USA spokesman Andrew Kolvet posted on X about a college student who was fed up with grocery inflation since COVID. The kid's point was simple: a burrito should not require a small loan. Enter neoconservative Fox contributor Marc Thiessen, who basically told the student to sit down and eat whatever slop the college cafeteria provides because it is already part of the meal plan. "Cry me a river," Thiessen wrote, apparently channeling every out of touch uncle at Thanksgiving.
That is when Vance swooped in with a precision strike that would make a surgeon jealous. He wrote that he was surprised by Thiessen's take because, and I quote loosely here, anyone who has met the guy in person can tell he has never skipped a burrito in his life. The VP even misspelled Thiessen's first name, which is either a typo or the most disrespectful cherry on top imaginable.
The pile on continued from there. Daily Wire host Matt Walsh weighed in, arguing that grocery costs should be the top priority for every politician in America. He also connected skyrocketing food prices to foreign policy, saying that pointless wars abroad are basically handing socialists a recruitment brochure. Meanwhile, Jeremy Boering Show producer Joel Berry took a more domestic approach, noting that his wife whipped up homemade burritos for their family of eight for under twenty dollars total. Berry joked that maybe the real crisis is that people forgot how to operate a stove.
But here is the thing. This is not just about tortillas and beans. A study found that roughly two thirds of working age adults are swiping credit cards at the grocery store, and many cannot pay off those balances. Urban Institute researcher Kassandra Martinchek noted that a significant chunk of Americans are genuinely struggling to afford basic necessities.
The beef between Vance and Thiessen goes way deeper than Chipotle discourse, too. Thiessen recently went after the VP in a Washington Post column, blaming him for the collapse of diplomatic negotiations with Iran. He claimed that Vance's approach made renewed military conflict unavoidable and urged President Trump to stop listening to those pushing for restraint. This from the same guy who wrote back in January that bombing Iran carried zero downside, pointing to previous strikes and claiming Tehran could not or would not retaliate.
So to recap: a Fox News pundit dismissed struggling young people, got absolutely torched by the Vice President of the United States over his burrito consumption habits, and also happens to think wars have no consequences. Sounds about right for 2026.
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