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JD Vance<\/strong><\/a> is being called out for his response to Donald Trump<\/strong><\/a>\u2018s \u201csmile\u201d comment at CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n If you don\u2019t know what happened, CNN chief White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins<\/strong> was asking questions about Epstein survivors during a Q&A with the 79-year-old POTUS.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat would you say to survivors\u2013\u201d she started to ask, before Trump <\/strong>interrupted and said, \u201cYou are so bad. You know, you are the worst reporter. No wonder\u2014CNN has no ratings because of people like you. She\u2019s a young woman. I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever seen you smile. I\u2019ve known you for 10 years. I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever seen a smile on your face. You know why you\u2019re not smiling? Because you know you\u2019re not telling the truth, and you\u2019re a very dishonest organization, and they should be ashamed of you.\u201d<\/p>\n JD Vance<\/strong> went on Megyn Kelly<\/strong><\/a>\u2018s show and defended the POTUS\u2019 response, saying<\/a>, \u201cShe\u2019s asking a question, the president says, \u2018Why don\u2019t you ever smile?\u2019 Yeah, it\u2019s actually, like, so perceptive. Even if you\u2019re asking a tough question, even if you take your job very seriously, like, does it always have to be so antagonistic?\u201d<\/p>\n Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n He added, \u201cHave some fun, right? You can\u2019t always take yourself too seriously. You\u2019re gonna have a heart attack. And that\u2019s too much of the Washington press corps. And of course, they don\u2019t act like that when the other guys are in power, so there is a political bias angle to it.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m not saying you have to agree with everything that me or President Trump do, but nobody is angry all the time, and when you come across as angry all the time, it\u2019s just fake,\u201d he added later.<\/p>\n Some responses to this online include a repost on X<\/a> saying, \u201cDismiss survivors. Mock the journalist. Applaud the cruelty.\u201d and another writing<\/a>, \u201cJD Vance<\/strong> went silent for 4 days amid the new Epstein Files and then re-emerged to: \u2013 Glaze a guy<\/strong><\/a> whose lyrics are \u2018I like \u2018em underage, see some say that\u2019s statutory, but I say it\u2019s mandatory\u2019 \u2013 Say Kaitlan Collins<\/strong> should\u2019ve smiled more when she asked Trump <\/strong>about Epstein <\/strong>victims.\u201d<\/p>\n He also defended Trump <\/strong>with regard to Epstein <\/strong>headlines.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n