Vice President JD Vance was forced to respond after President Donald Trump posted an AI-generated photo of him as the next pope went viral and was roundly criticized by many of the usual Never-Trump suspects.
“Hey, @JDVance, you fine with this disrespect and mocking of the Holy Father?” Bill Kristol, a so-called conservative and publisher of the now-defunct Weekly Standard magazine, wrote on X.
“As a general rule, I’m fine with people telling jokes and not fine with people starting stupid wars that kill thousands of my countrymen,” Vance, who converted to Catholicism in 2019, noted in response to Kristol, who was a staunch advocate for the 2003 Iraq invasion as then-chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney.