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Topics: Donald Trump, US News, Politics, World News
Rhianna Benson
Topics: Donald Trump, US News, Politics, World News
US vice president JD Vance suffered an embarrassing blunder earlier this week after being caught poking fun at Donald Trump ahead of his Congress speech.
And after footage subsequently went viral, many viewers have come to an agreement over one aspect of the 40-year-old's 'oops' moment.
For those out of the loop, 78-year-old Trump made his debut presidential speech before an audience of lawmakers yesterday (4 Mar) following a four-year break from the White House.
Ahead of his official address - which would see Trump laying out his key objectives for his upcoming term - however, his Republican VP, JD Vance, was seen having a catch-up with house speaker Mike Johnson.
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Waiting at the podium for the father-of-five's arrival, the duo jointly began poking fun at Trump's notoriously-lengthy speech-making skills, seemingly not realising that they'd mic'd up.
"By the way, I think the speech is going to be great," the recording hears Vance say of Trump.
"But I don't know how you do this for 90 minutes."
Johnson then replies: "The hardest thing was doing it during Biden."
The speaker then pushes the microphone down - seemingly only just realising it may have been activated - before adding of Trump's Democratic predecessor: "When his speech was a stupid campaign speech."
Even more shocking, is that Vance went on to tell Johnson: "Man, I've got to be honest..."
Sadly, however, the VP then leaned in to the speaker's ear, obscuring the tea he was inevitably about to spill.
Many viewers have been left under the impression that the mistake wasn't as accidental as it seemed.
Mocking Vance and Johnson on X (formerly Twitter), one viewer of the controversial footage wrote: "'Oh noes! We didn't know the huge mic we were standing near would be on...' The world is a stage."
Another agreed: "100% right! I doubt it was an unknown not mic moment. I think it gave them a chance to speak the truth!"
A third added: "They tooootally had no idea that mic was on."
This comes as a controversial video has been doing the rounds on social media, seeing Vance relentlessly slam Trump before he became vice president.
The TikTok clip starts with Vance promising during an RNC interview in July: "I will be a vice president that never forgets where he came from."
After the video subsequently fades to black, with a tagline of words reading: "Weird. Here's where JD Vance came from."
A series of other clips filmed years prior then follow, including one which sees a beardless Vance declaring: "I never liked him."
Another saw the father-of-three admitting ahead of an earlier election: "I don't know who I'm going to vote for - I'm definitely not going to vote for Trump."
A third clip hears him confess: "My current plan is to vote either third-party or, as I joke to my wife, I might write in my dog," while a fourth goes on to hear him claiming: "What Trump is, is just another opioid."
"I can't stomach Trump," a radio clip goes on to hear the now-vice president admit. "I think that he's obnoxious and is leading the white working class to a very dark place."