While traveling on Monday, Usha Vance, the wife of Vice President JD Vance, nearly took a spill while exiting a helicopter while holding her baby son.
According to the New York Post, it happened at Joint Base Andrews, as the Second Lady had the couple’s baby son “strapped to her chest in a baby carrier and a diaper bag flung over her shoulder, had one hand on the railing and another on the baby’s head when she appeared to miss a step near the bottom of the stairs.”
Usha was able to steady herself, and per the Post, “four service members on the tarmac of Joint Base Andrews looked on as Usha quickly reached for the second railing and somehow managed to regain her balance.”
The family was headed on a long flight to Alaska, where the vice president is set to stump for Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK).
Usha Vance nearly had a very dangerous fall while holding her 2-month-old and a large leather diaper bag. Why did nobody, including her husband, help her? https://t.co/bzJodvxA7J
— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) October 5, 2026
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The vice president, before the trip, had stated that “Usha and a couple of the kids are joining. This is Usha’s 50th state, which is why we are bringing a nine week old baby on a seven and a half hour flight to Alaska… So if I give a speech tonight and I looked haggard and stressed out, that’s exactly why.”
Many social media users noticed that the service members didn’t seem to make any moves to help the Second Lady, when it appeared she might fall down the stairs while holding a baby.
what is the purpose of several officers standing there if not to guard in some way, to provide assistance if needed? if they are–literally–doing nothing except standing there like mannequins, better to have someone else meet passengers disembarking.
if Usha Vance had fallen & injured herself & her baby, would no one have helped her even then? someone must have been close at hand since there’s a video of this incident.
— Joyce Carol Oates (@JoyceCarolOates) October 5, 2026
HI GUYS YOU CAN MOVE IN THIS CIRCUMSTANCE
— Bethany S. Mandel (@bethanyshondark) October 6, 2026
@MeidasTouch @atrupar Usha needs her very own Natalie Harp to carry her diaper bag.
But in all seriousness, WTF IS WRONG WITH THOSE FOUR MEN! That baby and Usha could have been seriously injured if she fell instead of catching herself! Your stupid protocol be damned here.
— juju (@julest10003) October 5, 2026
@MeidasTouch It’s outright insane actually that these military types don’t involuntarily move to grab her and prevent her fall.
I get the instinct to do it from merely watching the video.
— sedef (@nsedef) October 5, 2026
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