Vice President JD Vance thinks President Donald Trump’s racist deepfake social media put up displaying Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries with a mustache and sporting a sombrero is “humorous.” However he is probably not as ready for the lengths California Gov. Gavin Newsom is keen to go to check his humorousness.
A laughing Vance brushed apart criticism of Trump’s stunning AI-generated put up Wednesday throughout the White Home day by day press briefing calling the stunning phony video from the President of america a joke.
“Oh, I believe it’s humorous,” Vance mentioned. “The President’s joking and we’re having a good time. You’ll be able to negotiate in good religion whereas additionally poking just a little little bit of enjoyable at among the absurdities of the Democrats’ positions and even, , poking some enjoyable on the absurdity of the Democrats themselves.”
“He’s joking proper. He thinks it’s not offensive as a result of Jeffries just isn’t a Mexican American? Critically?” a Threads person questioned. And one other mentioned, “Pretending to not perceive an egregious act doesn’t imply it wasn’t egregious. It simply means you’re complicit in it.”
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The president posted the disgusting meme after a White Home assembly with Jeffries and Senate Minority Chief Chuck Schumer on Monday. Democrats are refusing to help the GOP’s authorities funding invoice except Republicans agree to revive Medicaid funding, which is dealing with large cuts below Trump’s “One Large Stunning Invoice,” and prolong expiring Inexpensive Care Act subsidies.
Jeffries, meantime, referred to as the video “racist” and taunted the President.
“Mr. President, the following time you’ve one thing to say about me, don’t cop out via a racist and pretend AI video. Once I’m again within the Oval Workplace, say it to my face,” he mentioned.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom jumped in on the outrage over Vance’s weak protection of Trump’s bigotry, posting one other hilarious social media meme in Trumpian type.
“POOR JD! HIS SWEET BELOVED COUCH NOW COSTS MORE WITH THE TARIFFS!” Newsom wrote above an AI video displaying a curly-haired, chubby Vance sitting on a big Chesterfield chair introducing a made-up present referred to as “A HISTORY OF COUCHES WITH JD VANCE.”
The put up didn’t go over nicely among the many MAGA base.
“The humorous factor is that you just assume portraying him like it is a win for you when all it does is present how insensitive you might be to individuals who really are chubby,” this X person responded, apparently lacking the general level of the sofa.
However everybody else bought a kick out of it.
“Nicely, Vance did say it’s good to have enjoyable throughout occasions like this. Snort it up sofa boy,” a Threads person concurred and this one, “Omg, I’m dying proper now.”
“Simply dance Vance simply mentioned what the president did with the Mexican sombreros was simply joking and having enjoyable…nicely right here we’re I gues🤣,” mentioned one other.
Then Newsom turned Vance right into a minion and the jokes simply stored coming, all at Vance’s expense.
One other responded to Newsom, “I believed I couldn’t love you extra!”
The Chesterfield sofa has additionally proved to be fairly in style, “Now I would like one,” this X poster mentioned.
“I type of actually need this sofa now,” one other chimed in.
The importance of the AI-generated Vance caricature speaking about couches and why so many individuals discover it so humorous dates again a 12 months to when Vance was nonetheless operating for workplace as Trump’s vice presidential decide.
A joke in an X put up in July of 2024 mentioned Vance’s 2016 memoir “Hillbilly Elegy” included a piece about him pleasuring himself utilizing a latex glove shoved between two sofa cushions. It was after all not true. There’s nothing within the e-book about that, but it surely went viral on social media anyway.
