JD Vance Roasted For Cringeworthy 'Les Mis' Tweet
Many found it ironic, given that the musical is about an uprising against abusive authority figures. But just before the show, Vance wanted to make it very clear he had no idea what it was about. The vice president posted:
About to see Les Miserables with POTUS at the Kennedy Center.
Me to Usha: so what's this about? A barber who kills people?
Usha; [hysterical laughter]
— JD Vance (@JDVance) June 11, 2025
@JDVance / Via x.com
In a follow-up tweet, the vice president added: 'That's apparently a different thing called Sweeney Todd.'
That's apparently a different thing called 'Sweeney Todd'
— JD Vance (@JDVance) June 11, 2025
@JDVance / Via Twitter: @JDVance
Given that Les Misérables is one of the most enduring and widely performed modern musicals ― and that it's based on what's considered one of the most important novels of the 19th century ― not many people are buying Vance's ignorance. And they let him know on X:
It should be illegal to be this incredibly cringe. https://t.co/szqfixG42O pic.twitter.com/oW1DGsAkED
— DSA Orange County 🌹 (@DSAOrangeCounty) June 12, 2025
@DSAOrangeCounty / Via x.com
I'm sorry, the only people who would pretend to confuse Sweeney Todd for Les Mis are people who are super into musicals and uncomfortable admitting it. pic.twitter.com/k5sow99bmf
— Sonny Bunch (@SonnyBunch) June 12, 2025
@SonnyBunch / Via x.com
the idea that knowing Sweeney Todd is more normal (and presumably straighter?) is very funny https://t.co/A78xccJ7Tf
— Alex Shephard (@alex_shephard) June 11, 2025
@alex_shephard / Via x.com
Jesus Christ this is so cringe.
— Кобзар 🇨🇦🇺🇦 (@CanadianKobzar) June 12, 2025
@CanadianKobzar / Via x.com
Oh for gods sake you went to YALE, give it a rest https://t.co/hZ2zkIeIQS
— Sam Biederman (@Biedersam) June 12, 2025
@Biedersam / Via x.com
You can drop the 'I'm still an Appalachian hillbilly' thing. It's not a bad thing that you've moved beyond your rustic upbringing
— Steven Walk 🇺🇦🇮🇱 (@realStevenWalk) June 12, 2025
@realStevenWalk / Via x.com
That s not cute. Les Misérables is a searing indictment of authoritarianism, showing how state repression and inequality crush lives - and how resistance and mercy become acts of salvation. https://t.co/S70kDqRjlX
— Dr. Aurelia Attal-Juncqua (@AttalAurelia) June 12, 2025
@AttalAurelia / Via x.com
Omg JD is relatable lololololol
(Love that they're going to a musical while our rights are actively being restricted and they try to ruin lives! It's almost like they're trying to make us 'les miserables') https://t.co/JxKxOuaTY8
— Laura Bedrossian (@LauraBedrossian) June 11, 2025
LauraBedrossian / Via x.com
This did not happen. No one who knows the plot of Sweeney Todd also has no idea what Les Mis is about. https://t.co/3H3SIkRqwr
— 🖤 Sophia 🖤 (@Richard_Vixen) June 12, 2025
@Richard_Vixen / Via x.com
I love how this clumsy attempt to play to your base has you not knowing the plot of Les Mis but absolutely knowing the plot to Sweeney Todd.
JD Vance is definitely NOT an elite. lol what a dork.
— Jared Lipof (@jaredlipof) June 12, 2025
@jaredlipof / Via x.com
me when I pretend not to know the plot of a broadway musical that's based on one of the best-known novels of all time while somehow knowing the plot to a different, lesser known broadway musical https://t.co/ODWjp2Emiw pic.twitter.com/GhCrxxwHKr
— taylor turner (@taylorttt) June 11, 2025
@taylorttt / Via x.com
a straight guy anxious about knowing Les Mis is ridiculous. Les Mis is one of the most straight guy musicals out there. it's being anxious because you know who ryan reynolds is. the writers of Glee would call this too far-fetched https://t.co/SQRsOkhCbx
— Dan Walden (@dwaldenwrites) June 12, 2025
@dwaldenwrites / Via x.com
Strange story, considering Les Misérables is widely recognised as a seminal work in the Western literary canon.
Hard to imagine Yale-educated Vance is unaware of it. https://t.co/QwtzDwZoRw
— Hunter📈🌈📊 (@StatisticUrban) June 12, 2025
@StatisticUrban / Via x.com
It's about the dehumanizing effects of overzealous law enforcement and how prioritizing punishment over justice destroys families and lives, including (spoiler alert) that of the enforcer. Probably not relevant to this guy. https://t.co/seUv8qhnHP
— Adam McCue (@mccue) June 12, 2025
@mccue / Via x.com
I love sportsball ass tweet
— Drake (@Letterb0xed) June 12, 2025
@Letterb0xed / Via x.com
Hashtags
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
Yahoo
4 hours ago
- Yahoo
JD Vance latest GOP politician to enter Syndey Sweeney jeans ad debate
Sydney Sweeney's jeans – excuse us, *genes – are continuing to stir controversy. Vice President JD Vance became the latest Republican politician to weigh in on a controversial American Eagle ad featuring Sweeney that critics argued promoted eugenics. "My political advice to the Democrats is continue to (call) everybody who thinks Sydney Sweeney is attractive is a Nazi," Vance joked during an episode of the conservative "Ruthless" podcast on Friday, Aug. 1. "That appears to be their actual strategy." The Nazi party used the pseudoscience of eugenics, which promotes some genetic features as better than others, to justify the killing of Jews and countless other minority groups during the Holocaust. Sydney Sweeney dishes on the best jeans, her favorite rom-com and what's on her playlist American Eagle's campaign, which has spawned a fierce cultural debate, used wordplay to describe Sweeney, 27, as having "good genes," a wordplay to promote the brand's denim jeans. Critics have said the ad blitz amounts to a glorification of whiteness and a dog whistle for racist ideologies. But her supporters have said the ad is meant to be a light-hearted wordplay, defending the "Euphoria" actress and the brand. Sweeney previously told USA TODAY that denim was a staple of her wardrobe, but left out AE in her list of favored brands at the time. "I'm very much a white, plain T-shirt kind of girl. I jump around from a bunch of different brands and that kind of depends on what vibe I want to go for," she said. "I have my Levi's white T-shirts and my Cotton On white T-shirts that are just paired with casual jeans. Jean wise: I mean, I love Levi's, Frame, Agolde." Sydney Sweeney controversy, explained In one of several videos for AE, Sweeney, clad in a denim-on-denim outfit, says: "Genes are passed down from parents to offspring, often determining traits like hair color, personality and even eye color." "My jeans are blue," she says as the camera pans across her blue denim and her blue eyes. Soon after the campaign dropped, people began to sound the alarm on what they saw as a dangerous message about the beauty ideal, race and "good" versus "bad" genes. Vance, though, chalked the whole ordeal up to an overreaction from the "left" and a doubling down on a strategy that he thinks lost the Democrats the 2024 presidential election. Dunkin' ad about 'genetics' draws comparisons to Sydney Sweeney drama "I actually thought that one of the lessons (Democrats) might take is 'we're going to be less crazy.' And the lesson they have apparently taken is 'we're going to attack people as Nazis for thinking Sydney Sweeney is beautiful,'" he said on the podcast. "Great strategy, guys. That's how you're going to win the midterm, especially young American men." The ad's critics, however, argued that a campaign selling jeans to women should not have been shot so clearly from the male gaze. Some consumers were quick to point out what they saw as the regressive nature of the material: A buxom blonde woman drawing attention to her body and employing a sensual tone, they argued, calling back to a stereotypical symbol of a bygone era. "Wasn't she the one who said she didn't want to be seen as an object?" one commenter asked on Sweeney's Instagram page, while another chided: "We can leave Nazi Germany back where it got conquered ty next!!!" Sweeney has not yet spoken out about the controversy, though several prominent members of the GOP have chimed in on her behalf. Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, for instance, took to X on July 29 to blast the left for criticizing the ad. "Wow. Now the crazy Left has come out against beautiful women. I'm sure that will poll well…." he wrote. White House's communications director Steven Cheung, a longtime adviser for President Donald Trump, also maligned the criticism, calling it "cancel culture run amok." "This warped, moronic and dense liberal thinking is a big reason why Americans voted the way they did in 2024," he wrote on X July 29, adding that people are "tired" of this way of thinking. But, when a second ad campaign, this time from Dunkin', dropped featuring the same "genetic" themes, many critics felt vindicated, arguing that it signaled a greater cultural shift toward genetic hierarchy and racism. This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Sydney Sweeney drama: JD Vance addresses American Eagle ad controversy
Fox News
7 hours ago
- Fox News
Full episode: "Ruthless" 8/1/2025
Vice President JD Vance sits down with the "Ruthless" hosts for a wide-ranging interview in this special episode.
Yahoo
18 hours ago
- Yahoo
Spotify's lax privacy means anyone can see the Vice President's song choices
A new cybersecurity "breach" has revealed the personal information of various celebrities, and while it won't let you steal their identities, it will allow you to... judge them. The "Panama Playlists" details the Spotify song choices of notable people ranging from Vice President JD Vance to talk show host Seth Meyers to tech bros like Palmer Luckey. And technically, it wasn't a breach at all, but a possible lack of understanding around Spotify's privacy settings. Spotify has always allowed users to make playlists public or private and some even actively seek followers. On top of that, each playlist cover shows "Public Playlist" or "Private Playlist" right up top. However, the default for new playlists is "Public," so many users may not be aware that they're listening habits are available for the world to see — if someone looks hard enough. That's exactly what the unknown creator of the Panama Playlists did: simply search for famous people and find their public playlists. The results aren't really that interesting? Sure, it's kind of funny that JD Vance has I Want It That Way on his "Making Dinner" playlist, ironic that White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt's playlist features Aretha Franklin's Respect, and very on-the-nose that US AG Pam Bondi has Cold As Ice on her playlist. Other standouts are Young Dumb, Broke by Khalid on Sam Bankman-Fried's "loud" playlist, James Blake's Retrograde on Pete Buttigieg's "Election Eve" playlist and Billions and Billions on venture capitalist Mark Andreesen's "Focus Alpha" list. In other words, everything is about as you'd expect given the personalities (most of whom aren't exactly in the A-list tier). As The Verge noted, one list was attributed to Kara Swisher, but she said it was inaccurate so it was removed. While a relative trifle compared to other data leaks, Panama Playlists does show Spotify's loose behavior around user privacy. For one thing, it makes all your playlists public by default. If you switch that to private in the settings, it will only affect playlists created afterwards. You then need to set each one to private individually. Playlists, followers and following also appear on your profile by default. With that in mind, think of Spotify as not just a streaming but a social media platform, and treat your privacy accordingly.
