The vp laughed off a query about AI-generated movies posted by President Trump depicting Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) sporting a sombrero.
“Oh, I think it’s funny. The president’s joking, and we’re having a good time,” Vance stated. “You’ll be able to negotiate in good religion whereas additionally poking slightly little bit of enjoyable at among the absurdities of the Democrats’ positions.
Vance stated he would make a pledge to Jeffries that if he helped to re-open the federal government, “the sombrero memes will stop.”
The vp added that he didn’t know what Jeffries meant when he referred to as the video racist.
Trump has in current days posted a number of movies mocking Jeffries after the Democratic chief was within the Oval Workplace for talks on authorities funding. The primary video depicted Jeffries, who’s Black, with a sombrero and handlebar mustache.
The second, posted late Tuesday, featured an identical AI-generated picture of Jeffries, together with Trump showing within the background as a part of a mariachi band.