JD Vance Tells Son, a Pokemon TCG Fan, to “Shut the Hell Up” About Pikachu

In 2011 Herman Cain cited a Pokemon 2000 song during a Republican debate.

In 2016 Hillary Clinton asked people to “Pokemon GO to the polls” during a campaign rally.

Now JD Vance has revealed he told his 7-year old son, a Pokemon TCG fan, to “shut the hell up” about Pikachu when former President Trump called him last month to be his running mate.

“My son, who is seven, is in the hotel room with me,” Vance told a conservative podcast last week. “And he is really into Pokemon cards right now, he’s going through a Pokemon phase.”

“So he’s trying to talk to me about Pikachu, and I’m on the phone with Donald Trump, and I’m like, ‘Son, shut the hell up for 30 seconds about Pikachu,'” he continued. “‘This is the most important phone call of my life. Please just let me take this phone call.'”

Vance added that because his son “doesn’t get what the President of the United States means,” he didn’t care that Trump was on the phone.

Vance and his wife Usha have been married since 2014 and have three children together.