Vice President JD Vance isn't having a great week.
His boss, President Donald Trump, is beefing with Pope Leo XIV. The feud couldn't come at a worse time for Vance, who has a memoir about his Catholic conversion coming out soon.
And Vance's campaign stop in Hungary to support far-right leader and Trump bestie, Viktor Orbán, seemed to have the opposite effect. Orbán lost at the polls, and people are calling it another example of "the JD Vance curse."
Vance was also part of a failed attempt at negotiations to end the war in Iran.
Well, Vance appeared on Fox News yesterday, and one of his comments on Iran is going viral because it sounds an awful lot like something embarrassing that former president George W. Bush would've said.
Before we get into exactly what he said, here's what you need to know: Iran has been blockading the Strait of Hormuz. Last week, Trump threatened Iran on Truth Social, writing, "Open the Fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell." This week, the US has started its own blockade of the Strait in retaliation for Iran's continued blockade.
On Fox News, Vance spoke about the situation in the Strait, saying, "What they have done is engage in this act of economic terrorism against the entire world. They basically threatened any ship that's moving through the Strait of Hormuz."
"Well, as the president of the United States showed, two can play at that game. And if the Iranians are gonna try to engage in economic terrorism, we're gonna abide by a simple principle that no Iranian ships are getting out either."
Vance's comments, which have been viewed more than 4 million times on X, have people questioning, "Did he just confess that the United States is engaging in the act of economic terrorism against the entire world?"
And some people think he just said the quiet part out loud.
Others wonder if Vance even understands what the words he said sound like.
Another person tweeted, "He's so remarkably bad at this. It's delicious."
And Vance's...interesting...phrasing is drawing comparison to George W. Bush, whose habit of misspeaking became known as "Bushisms."
In response, one person tweeted, "Old enough to remember when we didn't think it could get worst than this..."
And another person summed it up, tweeting, "We've seen this movie before and hated the ending."
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