That didn’t age well.
A Fox News clip from 2021 resurfaced this week showing J.D. Vance criticizing both Simone Biles for dropping out of the Tokyo Games and U.S. media for supporting the gymnast amid struggles with her mental health.
“What I find so weird about this... is that we’ve tried to turn a very tragic moment, Simone Biles quitting the Olympic team, into this act of heroism,” Vance said at the time. “I think it reflects pretty poorly on our sort of therapeutic society that we try to praise people, not for moments of strength, not for moments of heroism, but for their weakest moments.”
