{"id":60382,"date":"2025-05-22T08:26:29","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T08:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=60382"},"modified":"2025-05-22T08:26:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T08:26:30","slug":"vice-president-jd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=60382","title":{"rendered":"Vice President JD\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-488.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-60383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-488.png 512w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-488-240x300.png 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Vice President JD Vance is facing backlash after his reaction to former President Joe Biden\u2019s prostate cancer diagnosis, announced May 18. While leaders across the political spectrum\u2014including President Trump\u2014offered support, Vance\u2019s comments were widely criticized as inappropriate and opportunistic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Biden, 82, has been diagnosed with aggressive, hormone-sensitive prostate cancer that has spread to the bone. Despite the severity, his team says it\u2019s manageable with treatment. Trump issued a rare gesture of goodwill, expressing sympathy and wishing Biden a speedy recovery. In contrast, Vance used the moment to question Biden\u2019s past fitness for office and criticized the transparency of his administration regarding health issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe can pray for good health,\u201d Vance said, \u201cbut also recognize that, if you\u2019re not in good enough health to do the job, you shouldn\u2019t be doing the job.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His remarks drew swift condemnation online and from political figures, with many accusing him of politicizing a personal crisis. Critics called the comments \u201ctone-deaf\u201d and \u201cdisrespectful,\u201d especially in contrast to Trump\u2019s more measured response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Biden\u2019s team has not responded to Vance\u2019s statements, choosing to focus on his treatment and recovery. Meanwhile, calls for greater compassion and civility in politics have intensified in the wake of the controversy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=60376\">also read&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President JD Vance is facing backlash after his reaction to former President Joe Biden\u2019s prostate cancer diagnosis, announced May 18. While leaders across the political spectrum\u2014including&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60382"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60386,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60382\/revisions\/60386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}