Overview

• On X Thursday, the vice president said Joy Reid would be "a much happier person" if she showed "a little gratitude" for the United States.
• Vance was reacting to a video of Reid describing her immigrant mother’s realization that the U.S. was not a land of opportunity for Black people.
• The clip came from a March discussion with Ta-Nehisi Coates at Xavier University in New Orleans and was reposted this week by the X user End Wokeness.
• The exchange follows Reid’s September remark on Don Lemon’s podcast suggesting Vance benefited from being an “Appalachian white” in Yale admissions, which he mocked with a meme.
• Coverage noted the comment fits a pattern for Vance, who earlier pressed Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office on whether he had ever said “thank you” for U.S. aid.