Kamala Slammed For ‘Mean-Spirited’ Move Against JD Vance’s Kids

The sound of young children is echoing in the halls of the White House for the first time in decades, thanks to Vice President J.D. Vance and Second Lady Usha Vance.

Their youngest never received a proper welcome, Vance recently revealed, slamming his predecessor for a “mean-spirited” snub of his kids before the presidential transition.

Kamala Harris impolitely declined to give the Vance family a tour of the vice presidential residence at the U.S. Naval Observatory, a tradition that occurs before Inauguration Day.

“They had never seen this house and Usha really wanted to show them,” Vance said about his kids.

While he knew the politics of the situation would be uncomfortable, Vance asked staff to reach out to the Harris team anyway and propose that Usha and their young children be given a tour of the property.

“They were rebuffed,” he revealed.

The vice president’s official home is a 9,000 square foot Queen Anne style home spanning 33 rooms, a wraparound porch, grand staircases, and artistic turrets. The property sits about two miles from the White House.

Former Vice President Dick Cheney welcomed Joe Biden and his wife Jill into the residence in 2009, and the Bidens offered the same tour to the Pences in 2016. Mike Pence did not host a visit for Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff due to the chaos around the 2020 election and the COVID-19 pandemic.

A source close to Harris previously told CBS News that the then-veep was preoccupied with other matters, including the wildfires in Los Angeles and a canceled overseas trip.

Social media users weren’t as forgiving after learning about the story from Vance.

“Wow, Kamala’s already dodging basic courtesy?” one person wrote online. “Refusing to let the kids see their future home is just petty.”

Another wrote: “Very telling. Thank goodness we literally dodged that bullet.”

“It’s probably just as well that his sweet young children weren’t exposed to that woman & her dysfunctional family members,” another anti-Harris commenter noted.

Vance also recalled Harris leaving him a “nice note” on his new desk, one that was “boilerplate” and “not particularly profound” but still “polite.”

The Vances’ three young ones — Ewan, Vivek, and Mirabel — are the first to live in the vice presidential residence since Al Gore’s family entered in 1993. The home has been furnished with miniature desks for the children to finish their homework, and Vance has brought in a golf simulator to practice his drive.

“It actually feels like a real home now,” he said, the Daily Mail reported.

“It’s kind of a crazy new world we live in, but there are definitely perks to it.”

He reminds the kids not to let the fancy living get to their heads, telling them not to forget that it will all end one day.

“I try to have as many of these rituals as possible that just remind the kids, I’m still your dad, we still have a mostly normal family life, even though there are cameras constantly around,” he said.