JD Vance turns web joke into viral Halloween win with wig video

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Vice President JD Vance leaned into an web joke at his personal expense this Halloween, posting a brief video of himself sporting a curly brown wig to imitate a meme that’s adopted him for months.

Within the TikTok clip, filmed on the Naval Observatory residence, Vance opens the door in a darkish go well with and pink tie, smiling as he tells trick-or-treaters, "Glad Halloween, youngsters... keep in mind, say thanks!" The road is a playful callback to the "you didn’t say thanks" meme earlier than he spins below purple lights to the eerie Twilight Zone theme.

The 41-year-old vp’s video racked up greater than 250K likes and 14M views inside hours, a unprecedented quantity for a political submit, and drew hundreds of feedback across Instagram , X and Fb.

Vance first turned the butt of the "fats JD with curly hair" meme after a tense White House exchange with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in February. Critics edited a photograph of Vance with exaggerated options and wild hair, pairing it with captions like "you didn’t say please" or "you didn’t say thanks."

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Vance shared a close-up selfie on X of himself because the viral 'fats JD' meme which rapidly racked up tens of millions of views this Halloween. (@JDVance by way of X)

Fairly than ignore the ridicule, Vance embraced it. Earlier this week, the White Home X account joined the net enjoyable, posting mock "costume package deal" photographs of political figures together with a "JD Vance Costume" that jokingly "doesn't embrace the fats JD curly hair." Vance’s personal Halloween submit primarily accomplished the gag by including that lacking piece himself.

Inside hours, the vp’s submit was trending. Screenshots flooded social media, with one person calling him "the perfect VP ever," and one other saying "JD simply gained 2028," and Elon Musk responded merely with a laughing emoji.

Even some critics gave credit score. One commenter on X mentioned, "he did the meme lol ." Customers rapidly remixed the Halloween look with the unique meme, including leap cuts and results because it unfold throughout platforms.

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Vice President JD Vance speaks throughout a "This Is the Turning Level" campus tour occasion on the College of Mississippi, in Oxford, Miss., Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025. (AP Picture/Gerald Herbert)

For a White Home that thrives on viral content material, Vance’s light-hearted stunt matches seamlessly into the Trump administration’s digital playbook . The comms store for President Trump has lengthy embraced meme tradition and rapid-fire on-line humor, typically even powered by AI.

Vice President JD Vance leaned into memes circulating the web and donned a curly wig for Halloween. (@JDVance by way of Instagram and X)

By Friday night time, Vance’s Halloween submit was nonetheless climbing previous 14M views.

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For now, JD Vance has executed what few politicians handle, turning a meme into a private win and proving that, a minimum of on Halloween, even the vp can snigger together with the web (in a wig).