Sen. J.D. Vance, whom Donald Trump named as his running mate ahead of last week’s Republican National Convention, took a swipe at Vice President Kamala Harris after the veep claimed he had “no loyalty” to the United States.

Vance, a former Marine who authored the No. 1 bestseller “Hillbilly Elegy” and built a successful business, not only rejected Harris’ accusation but then asked what she had done for the country over her own political ambitions.

“Now, I’ve had such an incredible, a blessed week. What a cool thing it was to be asked by President Trump to serve as his running mate and to get out there on the campaign trail. But there’s some bad news, actually. The Vice President, Kamala Harris, she doesn’t like me,” Vance said during a Friday rally in Grand Rapids, Mich., where he appeared with Trump.

“Kamala Harris said something to the effect that I have no loyalty to this country. Well, I don’t know, Kamala. I served in the United States Marine Corps and built a business. What the hell have you done other than collect a check?” he added.

JD Vance responds to comments made by Kamala Harris that he has no loyalty to America:

“I did serve in the United States Marine Corps and build a business. What the hell have you done other than collect a check?” pic.twitter.com/Su586zM4gD

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) July 20, 2024

Meanwhile, the hosts at MSNBC have a storied history of being kind of insane, but sometimes they get so far off the reservation that it is stunning.

That was the case with one of the network’s most popular hosts, Rachel Maddow, as she hatched a bizarre conspiracy theory about Vance last week.

The conspiracy theory somehow involves Sen. Vance being a white supremacist because of “The Lord Of The Rings” movie.

“Like Mr. Thiel who has named his companies after things in the Lord of the Rings series of J.R.R. Tolkien books, Lord of the Rings is sort of a favorite cosmos for naming things and cultural references for a lot of far-right and alt-right figures within Europe and the United States,” she said

“Peter Thiel names things after Tolkien figures and places, like his company Palantir for example. Like his mentor, like Peter Thiel, who had given him all his jobs in the world, Mr. Vance also when he founded his own venture capital firm with help from Peter Thiel named it after a Lord of the Rings thing. He called it Narya — N-A-R-Y-A — which you can remember because it is Aryan but with the N moved forward. Apparently, that word has something to do with elves and rings from the Lord of the Rings series. I don’t know,” she said.