Vice President JD Vance may be the second most powerful man in the world, but he apparently thinks the viral memes about him are first-class funny.

After President Donald Trump and the Vice President clashed with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office, a months-old meme about Vance suddenly took the internet by storm. The original meme depicted the Ohioan as a chubby four-year-old, sometimes crowned with a propeller hat.

One of the first memes to bring the joke into the Zelenskyy clash came from X user @TheMisterFrog. “YOU SHOULDA SAID PWEASE,” the February 28 meme parodizes, echoing similar remarks Vance made to Zelenskyy.

Reacting to the meme storm, Vance posted an edit of himself as Leonardo Decaprio in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, indicating that he recognized his likeness being spread around the internet.

Some of the memes were elaborate. One, posted by Ryan James Girdusky, showed a Norman Rockwell painting edited to show Vance creating a self-portrait. “This one is actually legit,” Girdusky remarked.

Referencing Vance’s bestselling memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, an edit by X user, @William_E_Wolfe parodied both Vance and President John F Kennedy. “Ask not what your Hillbilly can do for you, ask what you can do for your Hillbilly,” it read.

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Another meme from @yalligatorgar showed Vance as MSNBC host Rachel Maddow.

Nodding toward the classic comedic film Airplane, @yalligatorgar later posted, “Shirley you can’t be JD Vance.”

Some people worked the meme into recent historic episodes, such as the contentious removal and melting of Charlottesville‘s Robert E Lee statue.

Other users, such as Raw Egg Nationalist, saw more serious meanings behind the meme’s virality.

 

Yet more people attempted to make the meme as silly as possible, editing every person in the Dirty Dancing movie poster to be JD Vance and redubbed it “Dirty Vancing.”

User Not Jerome Powell compiled the various iterations into a Mount Vancemore.

Congressman Mike Collins (R-GA) apologized for the role some media outlets believe he had in creating this social media sensation. In early October 2024, just after Vance took the stage to debate his Democrat vice-presidential counterpart, Collins posted an image of an exceptionally chiseled Vance with a pronounced jawline and high cheekbones. Not realizing that this, too, was a reference to another burgeoning Chad JD Vance meme, media outlets ran with the story about Collins posting a “digitally altered photo” of the then-senator.

Posting a digest of headlines and news trimmings that attributed the starting of the snowball effect that resulted in this current cultural moment to Collins apologized to Vance, saying, “Dude, my bad.”

For now, these meme-orable moments for Vice President JD Vance do not appear to be letting up anytime soon.