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JD Vance Embarrassed On World Stage As Only Few People Clap For His Munich Speech

The audience was less than enthusiastic.

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Perhaps JD Vance could use a primer on currying favor with an audience because he turned the Trump administration into an even bigger embarrassment than it already is. This is no mean feat because his boss, President Donald Trump, is in the middle of a dumb standoff with the Associated Press. As you may have read, Trump’s nose is out of joint because the AP still refers to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of Mexico, not the Gulf of America, as is Trump’s wish.

You’d think there are more important issues on Trump’s plate, but here we are.

Perhaps Vice President JD Vance understands this. On Friday, during a speech at a security conference in Munich, he tried to downplay Russia’s interference in foreign elections. His audience wasn’t exactly overwhelmed.

As noted by @ReallyAmerican1, this was truly embarrassing. It’s anyone’s guess as to whether Vance knows this is embarrassing.

“BREAKING: JD Vance suffers a humiliating moment on the world stage, as only three people clapped at his failed attempt to minimize the damaging impact Russian meddling can have on a country’s democratic elections.”

“The Trump Admin is a huge embarrassment.”

Vance’s attempt to wave away allegations of Russian interference in Romania’s election with this nonsense below:

“We’re at the point, of course, that the situation has gotten so bad that this December, Romania straight-up canceled the results of a presidential election based on the flimsy suspicions of an intelligence agency and enormous pressure from its continental neighbors. As I understand it, the argument was that Russian disinformation had infected the Romanian elections. But I’d ask my European friends to have some perspective. You can believe it’s wrong for Russia to buy social media advertisements to influence your elections. We certainly do. You can condemn it on the world stage. But if your democracy can be destroyed with a few hundred thousand dollars of digital advertising from a foreign country, then it wasn’t powerful to begin with.”

Well, maybe democracy in Romania is on flimsy footing. I’m no expert on this, so I don’t know. However, the audience was clearly unimpressed by Vance’s commentary. The fact is that Russia interferes in foreign elections. So do China, North Korea, and the United States.

It’s just the way of the world now. Right or wrong, this is what it is.

Social media users were quick to note Vance’s ignorance and hypocrisy.

I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t know how deep Russia’s involvement in the 2016 election went, nor do I know how deeply involved it was in the 2020 and 2024 presidential elections. I don’t know the extent of the damage this may have caused our democracy.

All I know is I wish everyone, including the U.S., would play nice.

Featured image via YouTube screengrab

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Megan Hamilton

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Megan Colleen Hamilton was born and raised on progressive politics and she has long fought for liberal causes. She has lived in the Pacific Northwest, Nevada, Arizona, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, parts of Mexico, and now Central America. Her travels have further informed her progressive beliefs in these troubled times. She is currently owned by 10 cats, two dogs, and one naughty rabbit. She actually is one of those “childless cat ladies.”

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