While President-elect Donald Trump was sharing a Thanksgiving parody video of himself leaping out of a turkey and gyrating in front of prominent Democrats, his soon-to-be vice president decided to up the ante by posting an image of himself as “Trump’s wife.”
In a mock-up of Norman Rockwell’s famous painting “Freedom From Want,” JD Vance superimposed his face onto the matriarch serving up a Thanksgiving turkey to her family. A grinning Trump takes the place of the husband, who is standing behind a dress-clad Vance. The turkey, meanwhile, has been replaced with an electoral map of the United States showing all of the counties that voted Republican.
— JD Vance (@JDVance) November 29, 2024
It didn’t take long for Vance’s Thanksgiving night tweet to spark a reaction, especially with liberals and progressives. Besides mocking the vice president-elect over how “weird” he was for posting the meme, reviving Democrats’ longstanding narrative about Vance’s behavior, observers also noted how Vance was depicting himself as Trump’s spouse.
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“JD Vance posting an image of himself as Trump’s wife, and also with a map that doesn’t show people he and Trump won by one of the lowest margins in American history,” Zeteo founder and former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan tweeted.
JD Vance posting an image of himself as Trump’s wife, and also with a map that doesn’t show people he and Trump won by one of the lowest margins in American history. https://t.co/Spl63RInyA
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) November 29, 2024
“Some men are born with an almost fetishistic need to be ruled and this weirdo is high key one of them,” New Republic deputy editor Jason Linkins declared.
