JD Vance blasted for his shocking reaction to Trump’s AI photo as Pope; ‘Fine with people…’
Vice President JD Vance responded to the shocking AI picture of President Donald Trump disguised as the Pope.
Vice President JD Vance responded to the shocking AI picture of President Donald Trump disguised as the Pope. Bill Kristol, the former chief of staff of former vice president Dan Quayle during the George W. Bush administration, urged Vance to weigh in on the “disrespect and mockery” of the Pope.
JD Vance breaks silence on Trump’s “disrespect and mockery” of the Pope.(ANI)
JD Vance breaks silence on Trump’s “disrespect and mockery” of the Pope.(ANI)
“As a general rule, I’m fine with people telling jokes and not fine with people starting stupid wars that kill thousands of my countrymen,” Vance stated in a stunning response.
The remark was a jab at Kristol for his involvement in the 2003 invasion of Iraq during the Bush-led government.
Vance’s response prompted a barrage of criticism due to his attempt to convey a point and for his apparent disregard for the picture.
Bill Kristol hits back at JD Vance
Meanwhile, Kristol slammed Vance and Trump administration for what is happening in Ukraine.
“And I’m fine with people who do really care what happens to Ukraine one way or another, and with people who don’t support the AfD,” the US VP wrote.
Reacting to Kristol’s statement, several X users blasted him, with one saying: “This post is such a self-troll, I do not even know where to start.”
“Vance dropped the mic on you. Just give it up, loser,” another commented.
China lashes out at JD Vance for comments about ‘Chinese peasants’
China on Tuesday slammed US Vice President JD Vance for his comments about “Chinese peasants” in an interview that has drawn widespread ire and ridicule on China’s internet – and comparisons with Vance’s own self-proclaimed “hillbilly” background.
Speaking to Fox News last Thursday, Vance defended President Donald Trump’s market-hammering tariffs and railed against the “globalist economy.”
“What has the globalist economy gotten the United States of America? And the answer is, fundamentally, it’s based on two principles – incurring a huge amount of debt to buy things that other countries make for us,” Vance told news show “Fox & Friends.”
“To make it a little more crystal clear, we borrow money from Chinese peasants to buy the things those Chinese peasants manufacture.”
Asked about Vance’s comments at a regular news briefing Tuesday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said: “It’s both astonishing and lamentable to hear this vice president make such ignorant and disrespectful remarks.”
CNN has reached out to Vance’s office for comment.
Clips of Vance’s interview made their way to the Chinese internet this week, drawing an intense backlash in a country where factory floors are lined with industrial robots, cities are embracing homegrown electric vehicles and remote counties are connected by a nationwide web of high-speed railways.
“This true ‘peasant’ who came out of rural America seems to have a lack of perspective,” said Hu Xijin, the influential former editor-in-chief of state-run tabloid Global Times, in a post on microblogging site Weibo. “Many people are urging him to come and see China for himself.”
A hashtag on Vance’s remarks became the top trending topic on Weibo on Monday night. By Tuesday afternoon, it had racked up 140 million views.
“Look, this is their true face — arrogant and rude as always,” said a comment with 2,900 likes.
“We may be peasants, but we have the world’s best high-speed rail system, the most powerful logistics capabilities, and leading AI, autonomous driving, and drone technologies. Aren’t such peasants quite impressive?” another said.
Others noted the irony of Vance’s comments given his own working-class upbringing as depicted in his 2016 memoir “Hillbilly Elegy.”
In the book, Vance chronicles a childhood plagued by poverty, abuse and his mother’s drug addiction and spent partly in Appalachia, a corner of the United States he felt had been forgotten by wealthy elites. The book by Vance – a venture capitalist before his foray into politics – caused a sensation after Trump’s first election win and was widely seen as an explanation for the billionaire’s rise among the White working class.
Vance says war in Ukraine ‘not going to end any time soon,’ hours after US signs minerals deal with Kyiv
US Vice President JD Vance said the war in Ukraine is “not going to end any time soon,” just hours after Washington and Kyiv signed a key minerals agreement that has peace in Ukraine among its goals.
Speaking to Fox News on Thursday, Vance poured some cold water on earlier statements from the White House, while also claiming that US President Donald Trump managed to secure “a really big breakthrough” in the peace process.
“It’s going to be up to them (Ukraine and Russia) to come to an agreement and stop this brutal, brutal conflict. It’s not going anywhere. It’s not going to end anytime soon,” Vance told Fox News.
“Of course they (the Ukrainians) are angry that they were invaded, but are we going to continue to lose thousands and thousands of soldiers over a few miles of territory this or that way? I hope both of them come to their senses.”
Trump suggested just last week that Russia and Ukraine were “very close to a deal” after his foreign envoy, Steve Witkoff, spent three hours meeting with Putin at the Kremlin.
Talks to end the war — which Trump previously promised to do within 24 hours of taking office — have largely stalled, despite several top level meetings and at least two direct phone calls between Trump and the Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Moscow continues to refuse the 30-day ceasefire agreement proposed by the US and agreed by Ukraine. The Kremlin also demands the recognition of the Ukrainian territories it took by force as part of Russia. Such a move would upend decades-long international laws.
At the same time, Russia continues its brutal aggression against Ukraine, bombing cities hundreds of miles away from the frontlines on an almost daily basis.
Vance said that the fact that the talks were happening was itself a victory.
“I really don’t believe that any person, the 8 billion people in the world, I don’t think anybody could have gotten this deal done other than Donald J. Trump. When I say this deal, I mean getting these guys to actually propose a peace settlement,” the vice president told Fox News.
Earlier this week, Putin declared a unilateral three-day ceasefire in Ukraine from May 8 to May 11. In response, the Trump administration and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reiterated calls for a permanent truce.
Meanwhile, the Trump administration continues to flip-flop between blaming Moscow and blaming Kyiv for the lack of progress.
Last week, Trump slammed Zelensky for his comments that Ukraine wouldn’t recognize Russian control of Crimea, the southern Ukrainian peninsula that was illegally annexed by Moscow in 2014, calling the remarks “very harmful to the peace negotiations with Russia.”.
“It’s inflammatory statements like Zelenskyy’s that makes it so difficult to settle this War. He has nothing to boast about! The situation for Ukraine is dire — He can have Peace or, he can fight for another three years before losing the whole Country,” Trump posted on Truth Social.
Yet on Saturday, after speaking to Zelensky privately on the sidelines of Pope Francis’ funeral, Trump questioned whether Putin “maybe… doesn’t want to stop the war.”
The Trump administration has repeatedly threatened to walk away from the talks, most recently on Thursday, when US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that Trump may need to reassess efforts to broker the peace deal if the US doesn’t see a breakthrough “very soon.”
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Reporting by Andrea Shalal and Jasper Ward; Editing by Kim Coghill and Himani Sarkar
