{"id":237146,"date":"2026-08-05T16:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T16:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/237146\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T16:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T16:29:08","slug":"jd-vance-jabs-fox-contributor-and-iran-critic-with-a-mean-tweet-about-his-looks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/237146\/","title":{"rendered":"JD Vance Jabs Fox Contributor And Iran Critic With a Mean-Tweet About His Looks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Vice President JD Vance dropped a &#8220;mean tweet&#8221; Wednesday on Fox News contributor and Washington Post columnist Marc Thiessen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Vance, who somewhat toned down his social media trolling since becoming vice president, replied to a post from Thiessen commenting on the price of burritos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Turning Point USA spokesman Andrew Kolvet wrote on X to start the exchange, &#8220;One of our TPUSA college students gave me his take on affordability: &#8216;A burrito shouldn&#8217;t cost $20.&#8217; Yeah, a lot of this is a hangover from Covid and Biden-era inflation, but the lived experience is the same: It just feels like basic things cost too much.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Thiessen replied, &#8220;Cry me a river. The burritos in the college cafeteria are included in your meal plan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Vance then jumped in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I&#8217;m surprised to hear Mark say this. If you&#8217;ve ever met him in person, it&#8217;s quite obvious the man has never missed a burrito,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Vance, who has noticeably slimmed down in recent months, was likely holding onto some anger over Thiessen&#8217;s most <a data-ylk=\"slk:recent column;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/politics\/trump-whisperer-torches-jd-vances-failed-iran-strategy-claims-he-keeps-contradicting-the-prez\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">recent column<\/a> in the Washington Post titled, &#8220;Trump&#8217;s Iran strategy is working. His vice president&#8217;s isn&#8217;t.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In the piece, Thiessen <a data-ylk=\"slk:argued;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2026\/07\/30\/donald-trump-should-take-iran-war-advice-those-who-have-delivered\/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzg1Mzg0MDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzg2NzY2Mzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3ODUzODQwMDAsImp0aSI6IjkxNzhiYWZkLWZkNDgtNGNjOS1hODE5LTAwM2Q2ZjM4Y2IwYiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9vcGluaW9ucy8yMDI2LzA3LzMwL2RvbmFsZC10cnVtcC1zaG91bGQtdGFrZS1pcmFuLXdhci1hZHZpY2UtdGhvc2Utd2hvLWhhdmUtZGVsaXZlcmVkLyJ9.x1xk8_9I4GrQPPpDvXybOT6FnlErL_nRXxdElICtJCQ\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">argued<\/a>\u00a0Vance had given Iran a &#8220;veto&#8221; over the U.S. declaring victory in the war with his failed negotiations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Like Lucy and the football, Trump keeps getting told that this time the Iranians are finally ready to make a deal \u2014 only to be set up for failure yet again. Indeed, by elevating a deal as the definition of victory, Vance has given Iran a veto over America&#8217;s ability to declare victory. All it has to do is refuse to agree \u2014 which it is doing,&#8221; Thiessen wrote of Vance&#8217;s role in ending the war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Thiessen pulled no punches in claiming that Vance is not only giving Trump bad advice but &#8220;undermining&#8221; the president in public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Trump has never taken a resumption of major combat off the table. Why was Vance publicly warning of the dire consequences of the policy option (which Trump in fact nearly ordered just a few days ago)? The vice president doesn&#8217;t get his own foreign policy,&#8221; wrote the prominent Fox News pundit, adding, &#8220;As Vance publicly undermines the president, he is trying to dissuade Trump from resuming major combat with straw man arguments.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The post <a data-ylk=\"slk:JD Vance Jabs Fox Contributor And Iran Critic With a Mean-Tweet About His Looks;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/politics\/jd-vance-jabs-fox-contributor-and-iran-critic-with-a-mean-tweet-about-his-looks\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">JD Vance Jabs Fox Contributor And Iran Critic With a Mean-Tweet About His Looks<\/a> first appeared on <a data-ylk=\"slk:Mediaite;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Mediaite<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vice President JD Vance dropped a &#8220;mean tweet&#8221; Wednesday on Fox News contributor and Washington Post columnist Marc&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[105,34,1096,29058,23379,4450],"class_list":["post-237146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-fox-news","tag-iran","tag-jd-vance","tag-marc-thiessen","tag-vice-president","tag-washington-post"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117043852892815372","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}