JD Vance Channels Will Smith to Scold Abdul El-Sayed: ‘Keep My Wife’s Name The Hell Outta Your Mouth!’

Vice President JD Vance went Full Will Smith Mode — well, minus the part where he slapped another man in the face — and told Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D) to shut his yap when it came to his wife, Second Lady Usha Vance.

The vice president slammed the aspiring liberal lawmaker during a Monday rally in Sterling Heights, MI.

“Whatever you want to talk about Abdul, keep my wife’s name the hell outta your mouth, because she’s way outta your league!” Vance fumed.

The remark drew a pretty big roar from the pro-MAGA crowd.

It also harkened back to the infamous 2022 moment when Smith jumped on stage at the Oscars and smacked Chris Rock for having the audacity to make a G.I. Jane joke about his wife, actress Jada Pinkett Smith. 

“Keep my wife’s name out ya f*cking mouth!” Smith yelled — once he sat back down.

Vance issued the warning to El-Sayed about his “weird habit” after the Dem has made a few remarks about his wife during his campaign, including suggesting Usha Vance is sexually repulsed by her husband.

“What do you think is going through Usha’s head when he talks? She’s like, ‘Damn, I have to sleep with him,’” El-Sayed said on a podcast in April.

“I guess she’s pregnant so something is happening,” El-Sayed went on. “Can you imagine, he’s got Brown kids, at some point he’s going to have a really awkward conversation with his kids, like, you made your career hating people who are different.”

And last week, El-Sayed suggested Vance would not have introduced his wife to his grandfather because Vance and his “Papaw” had bigoted views on Sharia Law; the dig didn’t make a ton of sense, though, since Usha Vance was raised Hindu, not Muslim,

Vance added voters will soon get to judge El-Sayed for some of his comments and choices, like having socialist streamer and self-proclaimed America hater Hasan Piker flanking him during his primary campaign.

“My message to Abdul El-Sayed is you can pal around with terrorist sympathizers and you can say that America deserved 9/11 or you could empathize not with the children who were targeted at Temple Israel but with the attacker,” Vance said. “These are all despicable things, but they’re all things the people of Michigan will judge you on.”

Watch above via C-SPAN.

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