Vice President JD Vance took a few hours off social media on Wednesday after getting thoroughly rinsed by Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) and other Democratic lawmakers after comparing Duckworth—a Purple Heart veteran—to the fictional character, Forrest Gump. Clearly, he’s still upset that the film featured a bench instead of a couch.

“Watching Tammy Duckworth obsessively interrupt Marco Rubio during this hearing is like watching Forest Gump argue with Isaac Newton,” Vance tweeted during Wednesday’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, in which Duckworth and other members of the upper chamber grilled Secretary of State Marco Rubio about whether the U.S. is at war with Venezuela. (Vance’s typo is his, not ours.)

And, while a sitting vice president (or… anyone) should never compare a rival politician to a fictional character with physical and intellectual disabilities, it’s particularly stupid to do so about a Purple Heart veteran who lost both her legs after her Black Hawk helicopter was shot down in Iraq in 2004. (Duckworth still went on to serve another decade in the army, and retired as a Lieutenant Colonel before running for Senate.) Vance, meanwhile, claims he’s a vet—but really he just served four years in a public affairs office in the Marine Corps, never saw combat, and used his GI Bill benefits to go to law school. 

“Forrest Gump ran toward danger in Vietnam,” Duckworth shot back. “Your boss ran to his podiatrist crying bone spurs.” (Trump allegedly faked bone spurs to avoid being drafted in the Vietnam War, after a New York-based physician “diagnosed” them as a favor to his father, Fred.) “Petty insults at the expense of people with disabilities won’t change the fact that you’re risking troops’ lives to boost Chevron’s stock price,” she wrote.

The tactless insult brought on the ire of other lawmakers: Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-Mich.) tweeted, “Imagine watching Forrest Gump and your takeaway is to mock people with disabilities”; Rep. John Garamendi (D-Cali.) called the move “classless and disgraceful”; and Gov. JB Pritzker (D-Ill.) replied to Vance’s post: “That’s a U.S. Senator doing her job. This is a random troll tweeting at her.” The rebuffs were enough to send Vance into a tiny screen break, and it was hours before he tweeted again—altogether ignoring what he wrote earlier, pivoting instead to fluffing Rubio’s feathers.

“Thank God we have a Secretary of State who knows his facts AND has the patience of Job,” he wrote, congratulating Rubio on a “great job.” (Although, knowing Job is a biblical character who suffers Faustian-level catastrophes in his life, is this Vance… manifesting?)

Rubio, for his part, did anything but a great job in the hearing—and got real weird when Duckworth asked whether he plans on telling the president to “rescind his invocation” of the wartime Alien Enemies Act, a federal law allowing the president to detain or deport citizens of an “enemy” country. Trump invoked it in March, citing the dangers of a Venezuelan organized crime syndicate, Tren De Aragua. “Well, that was a mechanism to remove people from our country that prevent grave danger,” Rubio replied, explaining that Tren De Aragua is a “dangerous gang.” Duckworth replied, point blank, “This is a wartime act…Are we at war with Venezuela?”

“There’s no doubt these groups have waged war on the U.S.,” Rubio replied.

Pressing Rubio about whether that, indeed, means we’re at war, he responded: “When it comes to narco-trafficking gangs and criminal gangs, there’s no doubt about the fact that we’re confronting them in a war-like setting,”

“The president has already said that he was ready to put American troops in Venezuela,” Duckworth said later.

“No, I think the president said that he retains the right as commander in chief to protect the United States against any imminent threats,” Rubio replied. “Maybe that involves troops, maybe that involves air power. We hope that, we don’t anticipate, that being the case in Venezuela.”

“I worry that you are playing fast and loose with our nation,” Duckworth responded. “We don’t need to be in another forever war, and that is the path that we are going towards.”

Vance, of course, had nothing to say about that, either.