Republican Vice Presidential candidate JD Vance recently sounded off on MSNBC Anchor Stephanie Ruhle for trying to fact-check a comment of the Ohio senator’s that was intended to be the “most obvious” joke.  The remarks in question pertained to an obviously hyperbolic and lighthearted quip about how many eggs his young son eats each morning.

Last month Vance visited a grocery store in Reading, Pennsylvania, to highlight the rampant inflation throughout the Biden-Harris administration that has dramatically driven up the price of food and other everyday essentials for millions of Americans.  During his appearance, he was joined by his two sons, Ewan and Vivek.

During Vance’s speech, his sons interrupted him as they reached for a carton of eggs.  The senator joked, “Yes, buddy. Want some eggs? Let’s talk about eggs. Because these guys actually eat about 14 eggs every single morning. Is that right?”  Apparently, misunderstanding that this comment was not intended to be taken literally, liberals on social media called out Vance, blasting him for allegedly lying.

One user on social media wrote, “J.D. Vance said his two young sons “eat about 14 eggs every single morning.” Does this guy even know his own children, or is he just making up more stories to keep it in the media as he admits he does?” Ruhle replied to the comment, breaking out her calculator, “14 eggs per day. 98 eggs per week. 2 children consuming 8+ dozen eggs per week.”

Vance fired back at Ruhle, replying to her comment with a hilarious comeback.  “One time I said I was so tired I could sleep for days. Stephanie Ruhle: Vance, in fact, only slept for 8 hours,” Vance wrote.  CNN senior political commentator Scott Jennings wrote also joked, “Vance: ‘I’m so hungry I could eat a horse!’ Ruhle: ‘TONIGHT, we talk to PETA to get to the bottom of this Republican-led equine eating catastrophe.’”

One person commented under Ruhle’s post, “Congratulations! You’ve now done more fact-checking of a dad making a joke about his kids than you did in an entire interview with a candidate who historically replaced the elected nominee in the final months of a presidential election.”

“First of all, he didn’t say immigrants were poisoning the blood of this country. He said illegal immigrants were poisoning the blood of this country, which is objectively and obviously true to anybody who looks at the statistics about fentanyl overdoses,” Vance told the reporter.   “‘Why do you think that Donald Trump’s language is targeted at the blood of the immigrants and not at the blood of the American citizens who are being poisoned by the fentanyl problem?’ This is ridiculous. If you watch the speech in context and look at what’s going on, it’s obvious that he was talking about the very clear fact that the blood of Americans is being poisoned by a drug epidemic.”