If Vice President-elect JD Vance desires individuals to cease calling him bizarre, he may need to cease doing stuff like this.
On Thanksgiving, the Republican posted an edited picture of Norman Rockwell’s 1943 Thanksgiving painting “Freedom From Need” on social media.
The portray depicts a person and a lady on the head of a desk the place a household is seated for his or her vacation meal. The girl, sporting a frilly apron, is serving a turkey because the patriarch watches over her.
In Vance’s version, the person on the head of the desk is Donald Trump, the lady is Vance, and the turkey is a Republican-dominated electoral map of the nation.
Earlier, within the day, Vance had posted a extra typical vacation missive, writing, “Pleased Thanksgiving everybody! Regardless of our challenges, we stay the best nation on this planet, and I’m very grateful for it — and for all of you!”
It was definitely extra festive than the president-elect’s personal submit, which, in accordance along with his custom, principally focussed on attacking “Radical Left Lunatics.”
Social media customers had been actually baffled by Vance’s selection.
“I’ve seen a variety of embarrassing habits on this app, however I’ve by no means seen something fairly like this,” wrote movie government Franklin Leonard.
Former Kamala Harris adviser Mike Nellis offered his personal interpretation, speculating Vance was being obsequious to win again affect over Trump, who has been palling around with billionaire Elon Musk for the reason that election.
“My head cannon for that is Vance is fearful about Elon having extra affect than him, so he thought posting this bizarre ass meme would win him favor once more. Which… actually may work as a result of Trump is useless as hell and loves these items,” Nellis wrote on Bluesky.
Vance’s submit evidently caught Musk’s eye; the SpaceX CEO reacted with a laughing emoji.
Try the reactions on X (previously Twitter) and Bluesky beneath.
