A rumor that circulated online in May 2025 claimed that a video authentically showed U.S. second lady Usha Vance saying of her husband, the U.S. vice president: "I regret marrying JD Vance."
For example, users on Facebook (archived), Instagram (archived), TikTok (where the footage has since been removed) and X (archived) shared the claim. The clip depicted Usha Vance as saying the following:
I regret marrying JD Vance. You call me the wife of the vice president, but those words only bring me shame, not an ounce of glory. What I wear, what I say and how I laugh all depend on his mood, even if I feel repulsed inside.
He stood on the stage and made jokes in public, saying that I have to laugh and celebrate no matter how crazy his words are. You may find it funny but I only feel that I've been trampled on and have lost all my dignity. He privately cursed the new pope and was mocked on social media with people calling him stupid. He doesn't care. But I have to force a smile and can't show the slightest disagreement.
This marriage isn't about love. It's a performance. I'm like a marionette and every word I say has to follow his script. The scariest part is that I don't even have the right to question. When will this kind of life end? You know, being the wife of the vice president is far from an easy job. After all, I hold a juris doctor degree from Yale Law School.
Many users wrote comments under the video posts indicating that they believed the footage was authentic. Those comments amassed hundreds or thousands of likes, suggesting that users who liked the comments potentially also believed the clip's authenticity.
However, the video of the second lady saying she regretted marrying her husband was not genuine. Someone created the footage using generative artificial intelligence. The original video used to create the fake clip showed Usha Vance delivering a speech at the 2024 Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she made no such negative remarks about her husband.
A Google News search for the terms "Usha Vance 'I regret marrying JD Vance'" produced no evidence of any news media outlets reporting on such remarks, which would have been eminently newsworthy if they were authentic.
The White House has not yet responded to a request seeking comment about the fake video.
Searches of Bing, DuckDuckGo and Google revealed that the video possibly originated from TikTok user popculture (@rlx13205ijw). According to Google search results, that user's upload of the clip amassed at least 1.1 million views. A Facebook share of the TikTok video's link also showed that it received at least around 2,000 comments. As of May 12, the TikTok video no longer appeared on the user's profile (archived). The clip's page originally noted "original sound - popculture," indicating that the user was the first to post the video on TikTok with the fake audio.
Examples of other recently posted videos on the TikTok user's page included fake clips of President Donald Trump and his oldest granddaughter, Kai Trump. Both videos displayed the user-chosen label "Creator labeled as AI-generated."
A representative from TikTok has not yet said whether the company or the user removed the video. Snopes' attempts to reach the TikTok user failed because their private message settings disabled new conversations with people they are not following.
For further reading, a previous Snopes fact check examined another TikTok video that purportedly showed the U.S. president complaining earlier in May about the organizers of the Met Gala banning him from the annual fashion event.