Vice President JD Vance has been making the media rounds this week, appearing on Fox News, CNN, NBC and other networks to promote his new memoir “Communion” ahead of a widely anticipated 2028 presidential campaign push.
But of all his appearances, it was his visit to ABC’s “The View” on Tuesday that the internet could not stop talking about and not entirely for political reasons.
The ‘Meme’
A moment from the broadcast, showing Vance apparently smiling and glancing at co-host Ana Navarro has quickly spread across social media. Donald Trump Jr. posted about it on X, writing “Brand new JD Vance meme just dropped.”
The reactions online were swift and varied.
“Look at the eyes of both of them, how lovingly they are looking at each other,” wrote one user.
Another took a more critical tone: “Funny part is, it’s not even really a meme, that shot looks like it was actually taken from the live broadcast. So she actually made that stupid smirk while he was laughing at her.”
While another wrote, “We should probably aspire to something more for a VP than him being a meme.”
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What actually happened at ‘The View’
Vance’s visit to “The View” was always going to be tense, given the show is dominated by critics of the Trump administration.
Several controversies came up. Vance called himself “frankly kind of a conspiracy theorist on the Epstein stuff,” saying he wanted “full transparency.” When Joy Behar pushed back on his defense of Trump’s inflation remark, she asked, “Are you his interpreter or are you his vice president? Come on.”
Whoopi Goldberg introduced Vance saying the show had been “asking our next guest to join us for a while now,” to which Vance joked, “This is a show of MAGA Republicans, right? … That’s what my media team told me,” as per CNN.
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Not the first time Vance has gone viral
This is not the first time Vance has gone viral for the wrong reasons. Earlier this year, he traveled to Budapest on April 7 to campaign for Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban ahead of a parliamentary election. At a rally, Vance urged voters to “go to the polls in the weekend, stand with Viktor Orban, because he stands for you.”
The endorsement backfired. Orban’s Fidesz party lost after 16 years in power, with challenger Peter Magyar’s Tisza party winning a projected two-thirds supermajority. Orban conceded, saying, “The election result is painful for us, but clear.”
The outcome drew sharp ridicule directed at Vance online, with Ron Filipkowski, editor-in-chief of the MeidasTouch Network, capturing the viral reaction in a widely shared post on X.
