Jed Duggar is under fire for making a joke in the latest announcement of the fertile clan’s pregnancy.
“It tested positive, but not for COVID,” Duggar, 22, wrote in the headline of the otherwise rather innocuous pregnancy announcement on Instagram. “And then there were 3. Baby Duggar. Spring ’22, ”read the text in the image announcing that he and his wife Katey are expecting their first child.
Although the comments were largely crowded with supporters and appreciated, “Without a Glass Ball” host Katie Joy went to look for Duggar to make the sentence, in the context of the serious state of the coronavirus pandemic. in Arkansas, where the Duggars come from.
According to the New York Times coronavirus database, Arkansas has about 465,000 reported cases of COVID-19.
Joy also noted that Duggar’s comment appeared in a photo of his ad that only appeared on the YouTube version. “Katey and Jed shared this photo in their YouTube video, but not on Instagram. What I trust was intentional, ”he said.
“Cringey caption bro,” one commenter wrote, while another added, “a pregnancy announcement that made a covid joke. How funny.”
“Congratulations on your bundle of joy, on the other hand, you may want to change the legend that is not very sensitive to the time you know, as millions are dying,” one commenter noted.
Jed and Katey got hooked in Arkansas in April and revealed in their ad video that they discovered she was pregnant after testing at the Walmart bathroom.
But the Duggars have bigger concerns than Jed’s craters prospect of turning him into a stand-up: the key point of the family empire, TLC’s “Counting On,” was canceled due to the arrest of child pornography by Josh, Duggar’s eldest son, this spring.
The trial of Duggar, 33, originally began in July, but a federal judge ruled in June that the trial could be postponed until Nov. 30 after his defense team brought in a new expert to review the evidence.