A woke ESPN star claimed she felt ‘ill’ sitting near Vice President JD Vance at the Winter Olympics in Italy.
Sarah Spain, 45, spoke about her experience covering the women’s hockey game between the United States and Czechia on her podcast ‘Good Game with Sarah Spain.’
‘Twelve minutes into the first period, that area suddenly is awash with large men in suits with earpieces. And here comes JD Vance carrying a child and a bunch of security, and eventually Marco Rubio,’ Spain said.
‘When I see JD Vance’s eyeliner face, I literally feel ill, like a basilisk had looked you in the eye and death was awaiting you on the other side.
‘And I don’t even believe in that, but my body felt like when you’ve been spooked and you have a little tingle that feels like, “ooh, something’s not right.”‘
She also claimed that the Secret Service detail were ‘blocking half the ice. We’re trying to watch a hockey game.’
At a later hockey game involving the US and Canada, Spain saw Vance again, but this time he was with boxer and MAGA-adjacent influencer Jake Paul.
‘[Vance] brought a little demon friend, Jake Paul. Talk about only the finest people representing America,’ she said.
Sarah Spain, 45, spoke about her experience covering the women’s hockey game between the United States and Czechia on her podcast
JD Vance was seen going to his seat at the women’s hockey match between the United States and Czechia on February 5
She continued: ‘I was so freaking annoyed. And if I thought I was annoyed just from them being there, my simmer turned into a boil when the Italian press in front of us insisted on standing up after every single goal so that they could gawk at JD Vance and Jake Paul.’
Spain’s main gripe with Vance was how he has responded to various controversies that have arisen as a result of the Trump administration’s mass deportation policy.
Specificially, she condemned Vance’s statements about Alex Pretti, the protestor in Minneapolis who was fatally shot by US Border Patrol agents on January 24.
‘This human being, allegedly, with demon energy, is slandering a dead man who was shot in the back while helping a woman and was not fighting and was not dangerous,’ Spain said.
Shortly after the shooting, Vance reposted a social media post from White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller that described Pretti as ‘an assassin’ who ‘tried to murder federal agents’.
In an exclusive interview with the Daily Mail, Vance refused to apologize for endorsing Miller’s statement.
‘For what?’ he said when asked if he’d apologize to Pretti’s family.
‘If something is determined that the guy who shot Alex Pretti did something bad, then a lot of consequences are going to flow from that. We’ll let that happen,’ Vance said. ‘I don’t think it’s smart to prejudge the investigation.’
Spain also complained about seeing Vance and Jake Paul at a subsequent women’s hockey game
Spain has never been afraid to speak her mind. Last year, she blasted Shane Gillis for jokes he made in his ESPYs monologue about female athletes.
Megan Rapinoe could not make it tonight… nice,’ Gillis said about the former USWNT soccer captain before adding . ‘No? We’re gonna pretend she’s a good time? Alright.’
The actor and comic also mocked 4ft 8in Olympic gymnast Biles over her height and the WNBA over its lesser-known players while saying about Clark: ‘When Caitlin Clark retires from the WNBA, she’s going to work at a Waffle House so she can continue doing what she loves most: fist fighting black women.’
Yet those gags did not go down well with Spain, who has ripped into Gillis for his ‘hacky’ punchlines about female sports stars.
The sports reporter wrote on X: ‘In a year of crazy growth for women’s sports choosing an ESPYs host who doesn’t even try to make clever jokes about women athletes (he at least *attempted* for the men) he goes with hacky “no one knows the WNBA” bits, “Pinoe is a bad time” & repeatedly insults Black women. COOL.’
