Trump insiders urged to 'use discretion' when laughing at JD Vance behind his back: report

Vice President JD Vance has a substantial number of detractors in Donald Trump's inner circle who believe he has inflated his own importance in the administration and have been delighted at how he has been portrayed on “South Park.”

According to a report from Salon’s Brian Karem, Trump’s veep was not the first choice by insiders for the president's running mate but wealthy benefactors urged the president to tap him over the more favored Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL).

Since Vance has been on the job, the distaste for him has grown to the point where his detractors are being urged to be more discreet when trashing him behind his back.

Karem is reporting “South Park,” which has been brutally hammering the president weekly to the dismay of conservatives, is getting a thumbs-up from White House Vance critics for casting Vance as the diminutive and subservient Tattoo from “Fantasy Island."

On Friday, Karem wrote Trump had a bad Labor Day weekend, but added, “Interestingly, though, Trump’s weekend apparently included several conversations about Vice President JD Vance. The veep has tried to increase his visibility recently by going on vacation wherever he can still get a room and service, and he’s desperate to seem vital. His constant demand for gratitude has garnered international attention, but it isn’t covered much inside the U.S.”

As for those conversations, “.... some Trump insiders who don’t get along with Vance and his staff laugh at ‘South Park’ portraying the vice president as ‘Tattoo,’ the sidekick from ‘Fantasy Island.’ Some have even apparently imitated Hervé Villechaize shouting ‘Da plane, boss, da plane,’ as they refer to Vance, though I’m told 'discretion is advised' when and where such jokes are made,” Karem is reporting.

He then added that contempt for Vance’s self-regard has reached the point where he is being compared to former Ronald Reagan Secretary of State Alexander Haig who made major news after the former president was shot and he charged the lectern and blurted “I am in control here, in the White House,” when he was not next in line if the president died.

Karem added, “If this were a mob movie, all sorts of nefarious thoughts would come to mind. But in this case the speculation is limited to removal by the 25th Amendment — not likely — a sudden malady that will compromise the president or Vance just wanting to signal to MAGA supporters that he, at least, was not comatose. Some members of Trump’s staff believe the vice president ‘overstated things’ to make himself seem vital.”

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