JD Vance Giggles Over Trump’s Shocking Question To Syrian Leader: ‘Amazing Comedic Timing’

A person who has bombed onerous whereas making an attempt to inform jokes onstage is sharing who he thinks is humorous.

Vice President JD Vance was requested by Secretary of Well being and Human Providers 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 stay “Make America Wholesome Once more” on Wednesday.

Vance responded by saying he felt Secretary of State Marco Rubio was the “funniest outdoors of the president,” earlier than transferring on to present an instance of Trump’s “superb comedic timing.”

Vance recalled an incredibly 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 “what number of wives” he has. When al-Sharaa responded by saying, “One,” Trump quipped: “With you guys, I by no means know.”

“I don’t know in the event you noticed this video circulating on social media, however the president met some– uh, met the president of Syria, al-Sharaa, within the Oval Workplace a few days in the past,” Vance advised Kennedy.

He continued: “And, you recognize, he requested him, he was like, ‘Properly what number of wives do you will have?’”

In response, Vance, and far of the viewers, started to giggle.

“And it’s identical to, ‘Oh, what an incredible query,’” Vance mentioned of Trump’s offensive query. “Wonderful 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 change with al-Sharaa was initially posted on the social media platform.

“Trump thinks in the event you’re a Muslim man you will have a number of wives,” one X person wrote.

“His ‘What number of wives do you will have’ query is simply one other instance of how trump views ladies as property,” one other X person famous.

“Jesus, what an asshole,” mentioned one other X person.

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.”