JD Vance
US Vice President
JD Vance
US Vice President
As of February 2025, J.D. Vance serves as Vice President under Donald Trump. He gained fame with his 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy and later shifted from critic to ally of Trump, securing the vice presidency in 2024. At the Munich Security Conference, Vance drew attention for criticizing European leaders over censorship, calling it a bigger threat than Russia or China, and meeting with far-right figures, sparking backlash from European officials.
China Mocks Trump with Depressing AI Video Showcasing Tariff-Hit America
- Tuesday, 08 April 2025
A Chinese TikToker created a 32-second AI-generated video depicting a depressing America under Donald Trump’s tariffs, showing morbidly obese Americans performing low-skilled labor work. The video mocks Trump's campaign slogan "Make America Great Again" and emphasizes manufacturing jobs that have moved overseas. This online insult is part of a war of words amid the tit-for-tat tariff fight between Washington and Beijing, which has included retaliatory tariffs and derogatory comments from US Vice President JD Vance about China's economy being fueled by "peasants".