Jen Psaki blasted for saying Doug Emhoff ‘reshaped notion of masculinity’

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 current revelation that he impregnated his youngster’s nanny throughout his first marriage.

Psaki, the previous White Home press secretary beneath the present Biden administration, interviewed Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, throughout the latest 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’re an extremely supportive partner,” Psaki instructed Emhoff.

“Has that been an evolution for you and do you suppose 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 suppose so much about this” and that he has “at all times been like this.”

“To me, it’s the correct factor to do,” Emhoff stated 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 stated, including: “Once we raise up ladies [and] assist ladies [with] pay fairness, youngster care, household go away…ladies shouldn’t be lower than.”

“Girls shouldn’t have much less rights and be handled otherwise,” Emhoff stated. “It’s not the American method.”

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 troublesome query. You utterly 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?” another X user 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 previous on the time.

Kerstin Emhoff’s discovery of the affair in 2009 ultimately led the couple to divorce.

Naylor was pregnant because of the affair. An in depth pal instructed DailyMail.com that she didn’t hold the newborn.

Doug Emhoff owned as much as the affair in a statement to CNN that didn’t title Naylor or tackle her alleged being pregnant.

“Throughout my first marriage, Kerstin and I went via some powerful instances on account of my actions. I took duty, and within the years since, we labored via issues as a household and have come out stronger on the opposite aspect,” he stated.

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 told the Washington Post in an announcement.

“He is a superb father to our youngsters, continues to be an incredible pal to me and I’m actually happy 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.