A person who has bombed onerous whereas trying to inform jokes onstage is sharing who he thinks is humorous.
Vice President JD Vance was requested by Secretary of Health and Human Companies Robert F. Kennedy Jr. who he thought was the most important clown — or extra particularly, the funniest member — of President Donald Trump’s cupboard throughout a reside “Make America Healthy Again” on Wednesday.
Vance responded by saying he felt Secretary of State Marco Rubio was the “funniest outside of the president,” earlier than transferring on to provide an instance of Trump’s “amazing comedic timing.”
Vance recalled a surprisingly bigoted query Trump requested Al-Qaeda jihadist-turned-Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa after spritzing him Trump-branded cologne throughout a gathering within the Oval Workplace Monday.
In a clip that’s gone viral on social media, Trump could be seen asking al-Sharaa “how many wives” he has. When al-Sharaa responded by saying, “One,” Trump quipped: “With you guys, I never know.”
“I don’t know if you saw this video circulating on social media, but the president met some– uh, met the president of Syria, al-Sharaa, in the Oval Office a couple of days ago,” Vance informed Kennedy.
He continued: “And, you know, he asked him, he was like, ‘Well how many wives do you have?’”
In response, Vance, and far of the viewers, started to giggle.
“And it’s just like, ‘Oh, what an amazing question,’” Vance mentioned of Trump’s offensive query. “Amazing comedic timing! There are layers to it, there’s like a meta-humor to it.”
Some Trump critics on X shared the “layers” they discovered within the president’s joke when the clip of Trump’s trade with al-Sharaa was initially posted on the social media platform.
“Trump thinks if you’re a Muslim man you have multiple wives,” one X consumer wrote.
“His ‘How many wives do you have’ question is just another example of how trump views women as property,” one other X consumer famous.
“Jesus, what an asshole,” mentioned one other X consumer.
Vance discovering a racist joke hilarious shouldn’t come as an excessive amount of of a shock. In April, he casually dehumanized a complete nation by calling individuals in China “peasants.”
