OPINION:
Someone on the internet posted a picture of Vice President Kamala Harris canoodling and cackling in a joyful embrace with her husband, Doug Emhoff. Next to that picture, they posted a picture of former President Donald Trump seated beside his wife, Melania — both looking serious and stoic — at some formal public event.
Asked this internet Democrat: “What do Kamala and Doug have that Melania and Donald never will?”
Put aside for a moment the sad and broken people on the internet who fantasize about the inner workings of marriages between two people they do not know. It is hard to figure out which is worse: hoping that misery reigns between Donald and Melania Trump or fantasizing about the personal aspects of Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff’s marriage.
Ewww. Like I said, sad people are trapped in meaningless lives.
The internet being the internet, however, there is always a glimmer of genius, no matter how dark the depravity.
“What do Kamala and Doug have that Melania and Donald never will?” the Harris supporter asked.
“A pregnant nanny?” the Trump supporter responded.
Now, this is a little unfair. Doug Emhoff did not cheat on Kamala Harris to impregnate the family’s nanny. He cheated on his first wife to impregnate the family’s nanny.
After taking a blowtorch and incinerating his first family, Mr. Emhoff married Kamala Harris.
It’s like a Hallmark card. Ms. Harris found a man who would not belly crawl over broken glass to get away from her shrieking hyena laugh. Or as the internet’s artificial intelligence drone recently offered: a “glorious cackle that sounds like a hyena got into the nitrous oxide at the dentist’s office.”
Not a bad line from Google. I just hope it pronounced her name correctly.
Anyhoo, this all came to mind Sunday when the Biden-Harris administration’s former minister of information conducted a television interview with Mr. Emhoff on MSNBC.
Jen Psaki, the last remotely successful White House spokesperson, anchors a show called “Inside With Jen Psaki.” It is not clear exactly why it is called that since part of the interview was conducted inside — with lots of joyful laughing — but some of it was conducted outside, walking beside a fence — also with lots of joyful laughing.
Ms. Psaki, being a serious Biden-Harris spokesperson turned serious journalist, got right to the hard issues affecting Americans. Specifically, she wanted to know from Mr. Emhoff about how “your role has reshaped the perception of masculinity.”
For the casual observer, it was a reminder of why Ms. Psaki was the last effective minister of information for the Biden-Harris administration. I mean, that is quite the spin for asking Mr. Emhoff about destroying his first marriage by boffing his children’s nanny.
But wait! That was not what she was asking about. She really was asking him about how he has somehow “reshaped the perception of masculinity” by being America’s first second gentleman! And potentially our first first gentleman.
And who says White men don’t get celebrated in America anymore?
“I’m not sure you planned on that, but you are an incredibly supportive spouse,” Ms. Psaki enthused, barely able to conceal her glee. “Has that been an evolution for you, and do you think that’s part of the role you might play as first gentleman?”
It is worth noting that whatever “evolution” there was or was not for Mr. Emhoff supporting his current wife, there were no children and thus no nannies to distract him.
Mr. Emhoff modestly explained that he has “always been like this.”
Well, except for that episode with the first wife when he impregnated the nanny of his children.
“To me, it’s the right thing to do,” he demurred. “With Kamala and I, it’s mutual. We support each other. We have each other’s back.”
But even more important than fierce loyalty to his wife, Mr. Emhoff is interested in women.
“We lift up women, support women [with] pay equity, child care, family leave,” he said. “Women should not be less than.”
Especially the nannies, though Mr. Emhoff did not say that specifically to Jen Psaki. But we all knew what he was thinking.
• Charles Hurt is the opinion editor at The Washington Times.
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