Vice President JD Vance is visiting Scotland this week for a family vacation, and he’s being greeted with a truck, trailing around pictures of the “Bald Face” Vance meme.
Per People magazine, a British group called Everyone Hates Elon, which has in the past “trolled’ the likes of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Donald Trump, has “taken a now-infamous meme of the vice president with a digitally enlarged bald head and posted it on billboards and signs around the area where Vance and his family are staying.”
This includes an advertising van, featuring the enhanced image of the vice president:
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“Such an absolute SHAME that coverage of JD’s holiday features this meme of his face as a big bald baby, rather than peacefully enjoying scones and cream in the Cotswolds,” the group wrote in one social media post. “We couldn’t allow him to dine at expensive restaurants, while people in Palestine starve to death. We couldn’t stand by as he freely hangs out with his far right friends, while taking freedoms away of his people. Apparently you really love free speech hun @jdvance, so here you go xxx.”
The post also claims that a Norwegian tourist was barred from entering the U.S. because that Vance meme was found on his phone, although Homeland Security officials have denied that was the case, instead claiming that he was turned away because he admitted to drug use. There are much worse assaults on free speech that have been committed by the Trump Administration, including what the International Bar Association has dubbed “Trump’s Assault on the First Amendment.”
It’s not clear if Vance is personally bothered by the bald memes. But unlike Trump, whose skin is so thin that he never can let a slight go unanswered, Vance has often been a better sport. When South Park mocked him last week, rather than react angrily, the vice president stated that the Fantasy Island period indicated that it showed he had “finally made it.”
Well, I’ve finally made it https://t.co/Mu7VrSVTSb
— JD Vance (@JDVance) August 7, 2025
Earlier today, Vance played golf at Trump’s golf resort at Turnberry in Scotland. The vice president and author of “Hillbilly Elegy” has described himself in the past as a “Scots-Irish hillbilly at heart.”
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