JD Vance Zaps ‘Terrible Person’ Hasan Piker for Using Shock Collar on Dog: ‘Every Serial Killer’ Has Been ‘Bad to Animals’

Vice President JD Vance burned Twitch star Hasan Piker for using a shock collar on his dog, saying it was a telltale sign the popular streamer is a “terrible person.”

The vice president stumbled onto talking about Piker while discussing his own pup during an appearance on New York Post columnist Miranda Devine’s Pod Force One podcast on Wednesday.

Devine, while Vance talked about how his dog responds to him snapping his fingers, quipped, “You don’t have to zap him like Hasan Piker?”

She was referring to the recent viral clip of Piker seemingly using a shock collar to keep his dog, Kaya, from getting up and moving while he was streaming. Piker denied it was a shock collar, saying it was a collar that merely vibrates. Many on X did not buy the claim, and some users shared other clips of Piker apparently abusing his dog in the past.

“Wasn’t that disgusting?” Devine asked.

“No electrocution of dogs here,” Vance said, “very disgusting.”

Vance continued, “If you can actually cause suffering to an innocent animal, you’re probably the kind of person who doesn’t worry about suffering in people as well… if you mistreat dogs, that’s almost a 100% sign you are going to be a terrible person.”

The vice president said watching how people treat dogs is a good way to tell if they are a bad person or not.

“If somebody is really mean to animals — it’s like the Jeffrey Dahmer thing,” Vance said. “Like, every serial killer ever has been really bad to animals, that’s sort of how they started.”

Piker, for those who are unfamiliar, is a popular leftist streamer, with 4.8 million combined subscribers on Twitch and YouTube. He was championed by The New York Times earlier this year as “A Progressive Mind in a Body Made for the ‘Manosphere.'” 

Watch Vance rip Piker via the X clip above. And you can watch his full interview with Devine on YouTube by clicking here.