MSNBC host Jen Psaki is being mocked on social media for praising Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff as somebody who “reshaped the notion of masculinity” — regardless of the latest revelation that he impregnated his baby’s nanny throughout his first marriage.
Psaki, the previous White Home press secretary underneath the present Biden administration, interviewed Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, throughout the newest installment of “Inside with Jen Psaki” which aired on Sunday afternoon on the Comcast-owned left-leaning cable community.
About midway via the 15-minute-long sit-down with the potential first-ever first gentleman, Psaki introduced up how “your position has reshaped the notion of masculinity.”
“And I’m undecided you deliberate on that however you might be an extremely supportive partner,” Psaki informed Emhoff.
“Has that been an evolution for you and do you assume that’s a part of the position you may play as first gentleman?” Psaki requested the 59-year-old Emhoff, a former Los Angeles-based leisure lawyer.
The second gentleman replied that he “has began to assume so much about this” and that he has “at all times been like this.”
“To me, it’s the suitable factor to do,” Emhoff mentioned of his position as a supportive partner.
“With Kamala and I, it’s mutual. We assist one another. We now have one another’s again,” he mentioned, including: “After we carry up ladies [and] assist ladies [with] pay fairness, baby care, household go away…ladies shouldn’t be lower than.”
“Girls shouldn’t have much less rights and be handled otherwise,” Emhoff mentioned. “It’s not the American means.”
Reactions on social media have been scathing.
Collin Rugg, a right-leaning commentator on X, blasted MSNBC, sarcastically writing: “We’re a critical information community and never propaganda” whereas asking “Hey Doug, here’s a very tough query. You fully reshaped masculinity. How does that really feel?”
One other commenter on X wrote: “So, Jen Psaki thinks Doug Emhoff has reshaped the notion of masculinity. I can’t cease laughing, faux information media actually thinks we’re silly…”
“Is having a child out of wedlock with the Nanny reshaping masculinity to the Liberals?” one other X person wrote.
Earlier than Emhoff married Harris in 2014, he divorced his first spouse of 16 years, movie producer Kerstin Emhoff, in 2008.
Final month, DailyMail.com reported that Doug Emhoff cheated on then-wife Kerstin Emhoff with Najen Naylor, who was the nanny to the couple’s daughter Ella Emhoff, who was 10 years outdated on the time.
Kerstin Emhoff’s discovery of the affair in 2009 ultimately led the couple to divorce.
Naylor was pregnant on account of the affair. A detailed buddy informed DailyMail.com that she didn’t preserve the newborn.
Doug Emhoff owned as much as the affair in a press release to CNN that didn’t title Naylor or handle her alleged being pregnant.
“Throughout my first marriage, Kerstin and I went via some powerful instances on account of my actions. I took accountability, and within the years since, we labored via issues as a household and have come out stronger on the opposite aspect,” he mentioned.
Kerstin Emhoff expressed assist for her former husband after information of the extramarital affair broke early final month.
“Doug and I made a decision to finish our marriage for a wide range of causes, a few years in the past,” Kerstin Emhoff informed the Washington Submit in a press release.
“He is a good father to our youngsters, continues to be a fantastic buddy to me and I’m actually pleased with the nice and cozy and supportive blended household Doug, Kamala, and I’ve constructed collectively.”
The Submit has sought remark from Harris, Doug Emhoff, Kerstin Emhoff, Naylor and MSNBC.