Vice President JD Vance Saturday was called out for "publicly mocking other Brown people" despite "being married to a Brown woman and having mixed-race kids."
It started with a video of New York's Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani saying, “My aunt stopped taking the subway after 9/11 because she did not feel safe in her hijab.”
Misrepresenting what was said, Vance shared that video and added, "According to Zohran the real victim of 9/11 was his auntie who got some (allegedly) bad looks."
The internet wasn't happy.
Emmy winner Danny Deraney chimed in, "You will never know what ridicule and profiling people went through."
"Thousands of people had to put American flag stickers on their car just to prove they are American," he further added. "And that is after my cousin Bobby was killed. How you guys claim to be Christian is beyond me. Try being kind."
Popular influencer Human said, "JD, cut the crap. Mamdani never said his aunt was 'the real victim of 9/11.' That line was added by Greg Price to stir outrage, and you know better."
"He said his aunt stopped riding the subway because, after the attacks, wearing a hijab made her a target. He was talking about the fear Muslim New Yorkers lived with, the stares, the threats, the danger of existing in your own skin, not disrespecting the victims of 9/11," the account then added. "You’re not defending 9/11 victims. You’re exploiting their memory to smear a New Yorker for telling the truth."
Ex-MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan weighed in, too, writing, "Imagine being married to a Brown woman and having mixed-race kids and then publicly mocking other Brown people as they talk publicly and emotionally about their experience of racism."
"Vance is just a bad person," Hasan added.
MAGA influencer Laura Loomer responded to Hasan, writing that Vance's "wife isn’t a Muslim. If she was, he never would have been Vice President because MAGA isn’t going to ever support a Muslim being in the White House. Do you think Hindus and Muslims are the same?"