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Former President Donald Trump had critics cringing hard after he and his running mate J.D. Vance appeared on Fox News for a joint interview during which he shared the real reason he picked Vance in the first place.
When asked by host Jesse Watters to explain why Vance was ultimately his choice to serve as a potential Vice President, Trump responded:
“We’ve always had a good chemistry. And originally, JD was probably not for me but he didn’t know me. And then, when we got to know each other, he liked me, maybe more than anybody liked me. And he would stick up for me and he’d fight for the worker as much as I fight for the worker.”
“We just had an automatic chemistry."
You can hear what Trump said in the video below.
It sure seemed like Trump doesn't think too highly of Vance—and people were quick to share their second-hand embarrassment.
Trump's statements are all the more odd given Vance's previous identity as a "Never Trumper" who once described Trump as "America's Hitler" and "cultural heroin" unable to regard the needs of the working class.
In 2016, Vance frequently criticized Trump in interviews tied to his bestselling memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, which had positioned him as a notable voice on rural America and Trump’s ascent in politics. He argued that the then-Republican presidential nominee offered empty promises that wouldn’t address the problems plaguing communities like his hometown in Ohio.
Additionally, he referred to Trump as an “idiot” in tweets that have since been deleted. During an August 2016 NPR interview, he mentioned that he might consider voting for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton if he believed Trump had a chance of winning.
Prior to his Senate campaign, Vance apologized for previously calling Trump “reprehensible," telling CNN in 2021 that "I regret being wrong about the guy" while declaring that Trump was a good president.
In light of the recent presidential election shakeup, the creators of the HBO comedy series Veep seem to have called it.
Veep premiered in April 2012 and ran for seven seasons, winning many prestigious TV accolades along the way, including six consecutive Emmys for its star Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who played protagonist Selina Meyer, a female Vice President representing an undisclosed political party.
The political satire centered on Selina's social and political life, including a pivotal moment when she unexpectedly runs for US President after the fictitous commander-in-chief steps down from running for a second White House term.
Art imitated life on Sunday when Democratic President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 race on Sunday for a second term after mounting calls to step down from congressional Democrats who expressed concerns about his waning mental acuity to lead the country for another four years.
Following his announcement, Biden endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to take on former Republican President Donald Trump.
The momentous turn of events wasn't lost on fans of Veep, and they thought its creators manifested the storyline into existence.
Many wound up calling Veep a "documentary" following Biden's announcement that he was ending his presidential run and encouraging the nation to unite in backing his endorsement of Harris.
A famous scene from the finale of the show's second season in which Selina tells her closest advisors with bated breath, “I’m not leaving. POTUS is leaving," went viral.
After an outburst of applause from her staff, the character continues:
"He’s not going to run for a second term. I’m gonna run. I’m gonna run for president!”
You can watch the viral clip here.
In response to the viral hype, the show’s creator, Armando Iannucci, weighed in by reminding fans that the show was still a work of fiction.
"Don’t forget we made all that up, though," wrote Iannucci, in response to a fan who tracked Selina's political trajectory and eventual demise.
And when another user noted that Iannucci is "continuing to predict our political reality," the Emmy-winning writer cheekily replied:
"Still working on the ending."
Fans continued having fun with the show's blurred line between fact and fiction.
While some loose parallels from the show are there, Selina is not exactly an affable character—though her exploits are riotously fun to watch.
Still, Harris praised Louis-Dreyfus' speech at the 2020 Democratic National Convention and wrote on X:
".@OfficialJLD, veep to veep, you're crushing it!"
In light of recent events in the West Wing, Veep prompted renewed interest and a surge in viewership from first-time viewers and fans wanting to revisit the show.
All seven seasons of Veep are available for streaming on Max, Hulu, and Amazon Prime.
Former President Donald Trump's running mate J.D. Vance was widely mocked after claiming Democrats would call him "racist" for drinking—get ready for it—Diet Mountain Dew.
At a rally in his hometown of Middletown, Ohio, Vance remarked:
"It is the weirdest thing to me Democrats say that it is racist to believe, well they say it's racist to do anything. I had a Diet Mountain Dew yesterday, and one today, and I'm sure they're gonna call that racist too. It's good. I love you guys."
You can hear what he said in the video below.
His remarks were swiftly mocked—and the responses were hilarious.
Since Trump named him his running mate, Vance has already come under fire for a number of his statements.
Earlier, he was mocked online after his 2022 "Are You a Racist?" Senate campaign ad resurfaced and an X Community Note offered a concrete example of how he's twisted facts about his own upbringing for political gain.
In his ad, Vance omitted the facts behind his mother's drug addiction that he'd previously written about in his memoir Hillbilly Elegy, linking it to the ongoing humanitarian crisis at the southern border that has galvanized so-called "law and order" Republicans who've asserted that migrants and cartels are funneling drugs into the country and contributing to a record number of overdose deaths.
Vance has also tried to scrub his campaign website of a page that calls for "eliminating abortion." He came under fire from critics who say he's trying to trick his voters by hiding the fact he's pledged to support a national abortion ban and has argued against allowing victims of rape and incest to access abortion care.
Vice President Kamala Harris raised more than $81 million in 24 hours after officially launching her election campaign—an amount that surpasses even the opening weekend haul of the blockbuster movie Twisters.
Twisters, directed by Lee Isaac Chung, is a standalone sequel to 1996's Twister that's received generally positive reviews from critics since its release this past weekend. The movie made $80.5 million over its opening weekend—just shy of what Harris raised in the immediate aftermath since President Joe Biden dropped out of the race and endorsed her to be his successor.
Culture writer Ben Flanagan couldn't help but note the contrast, pointing to Variety's reporting of the film's box office in response to an Associated Press article about the Harris campaign's fundraising success.
He joked that Harris "outgrossed Twisters in her opening weekend."
People couldn't help but comment on this strange but true statistic, seeing it as proof of Harris' viability as a candidate.
The significant fundraising haul, which includes contributions to the campaign, the Democratic National Committee, and joint fundraising committees, marks the largest 24-hour sum reported by either side in the 2024 campaign. According to Harris' campaign, it is the largest single-day total in U.S. history.
Just hours before, Future Forward, the largest super PAC in Democratic politics, announced it had secured $150 million in commitments from donors who had previously been hesitant or undecided, according to a senior adviser.
This surge in fundraising in addition to securing the support of a majority of pledged delegates as of Monday night, ensures she will be the Democratic Party’s nominee. The nomination will be made official when the delegates meet at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on August 19.
Harris' initial 24-hour fundraising total easily surpassed the $50 million former President Donald Trump raised immediately after his felony convictions and the $38 million Biden secured over the four days following last month's poor debate performance. The Trump campaign has not disclosed how much it raised immediately after last weekend’s assassination attempt.
As of Wednesday, a Harris campaign memo reports having raised a total of $126 million since Sunday from 1.4 million grassroots donors. In addition, over 100,000 people have signed up to volunteer since Sunday.
There's no question that there are some jobs, like retail and food service, that are annoying to work than others.
But even in the food industry, some customer behaviors really make food service workers question their decision to work in the industry.
Already cringing, Redditor Veeanniy asked:
"Restaurant workers of Reddit, what do customers do or say that you secretly hate?"
"People who insist on sitting outdoors then complain about the temperature, bugs, or noise."
- Hyper_Active
"People actually sit outside and then complain about the weather?"
"The most I’ll do is ask the staff to turn on or slightly reposition a heat lamp. But I’ve probably only done that twice because I hate being cold and don’t want to make it someone else’s problem."
- tacocollector2
"I was a bartender at a diveish bar years ago, and one customer insisted on calling all the bartenders 'Easy Money.'"
"I actually found it kind of funny and unusual, but it enraged one of the other bartenders."
"Anyway, one night, one thing led to another, and they started throwing what I would very loosely call 'blows' at each other. No one was hurt due to their poor striking skills."
"Anyway, I never saw the customer again and went back to my hometown like ten years later to learn that the same bartender had actually bought the bar! I walked in and said, 'HEY!! EASY MONEY!! GET ME A F**KING BEER!'"
"He didn't recognize me at first, and I swear he almost swung at me. We laughed about it and he talked about how he hated being called, 'chief,' 'boss,' etc. He ended up buying the bar so he could decide who he allowed in."
- joeyguse
"When asked if I could get them anything else, they reply, 'A million dollars,' like they are the most clever person in the world, and I have to fake a laugh like I haven’t already heard that 15 times that shift."
- hashtagfan
"I think every job that deals with people regularly has some joke that everyone believes they're the first to come up with. In actuality, you've heard it 75 times in the past week."
"Like if you scan an item at a register and it doesn't scan immediately, someone will go, 'Uh oh, that means it's freeeeeeeee.'"
"Ugg."
- donku83
"I worked as a server for a couple of months. The customers who annoyed me were the ones who wanted to argue with me about the pricing of the item or how a particular dish was made. I have no control over any of that, and so it was pointless for me to stand there, receiving a lecture when I have so many other tables I have to get to."
- EstateNorth
"I had a friend that would literally try to haggle with the waitress at restaurants about the price. 'What if I get the steak without the side of fries, is it cheaper that way? Can I just get an eight-ounce instead of a sixteen?' etc."
"Emphasis on HAD a friend. He was insufferable."
- DoradoPulido2
"People letting their kids throw s**t everywhere and not even attempt to clean up after themselves!"
"I worked as a waitress for eight months, and it was my biggest peeve. Now when I go to eat with my toddler, I always make sure to clean up everything after we eat (including the floor, kids are messy)."
- Healthy-Juggernaut79
"I worked fast food for 10 years. One afternoon, I was cleaning tables and a mom, child, and grandma were sitting nearby where I was cleaning."
"I heard the grandma tell the kid, 'If you don't like your food, you can throw it on the floor. They're paid to clean up after you.'"
"And sure enough, the table and floor were disgusting after they left."
"What does the mom think of that? Clearly nothing if she didn't stop it. But does this kid do that at home? Does grandma say it's okay to throw food on the floor at home since mom has to clean it up? I just don't understand that logic, teaching that to a child."
- naturemom
"Honestly, the amount of men who think women will find it cute when they harass them is astounding."
"Multiple times a day, I would get questions like, 'Are you on the menu?' or 'How much for a drink of you?' or asking for something that I need to bend over to get and then telling me they only wanted it to get a better look at my butt."
"I could honestly write a book about all the inappropriate sh*t I experienced while waitressing."
"Also, there are the 'fancy ladies' who intentionally humiliate waitresses by talking about them in front of them. I had this one woman bring her daughter in when I was working a late shift at one of my two jobs while also going to school because I had just lost my mom and was trying to make enough to not have to sleep on friend's couches and live out of my car."
"She sat down at a table that hadn't been cleared (without waiting to be seated), and when I came over to clear the table, she said to her kid, 'This is why you need to get good grades. If you don't, you'll just end up like her, cleaning up other people's s**t for pennies.'"
"I just put down the menus and walked to the kitchen and broke down crying. The owner happened to be there by chance, and when he heard what she had said to me, he stormed out there and told her that he didn't want business from her kind and told her to get out and never come back."
"She tried to argue that the customer was always right, and he just said that he had customers in the thousands, but good staff was one in a thousand, and he would not tolerate this kind of behavior against his employees."
"I'm still thankful to this day (20 years later) for how he handled this situation and defended me."
- Aggis
"That's really horrible, I'm sorry to hear that. I'm glad your boss stepped up. You can always tell someone's character by how they treat 'wait staff.' It's the only reason I like going out to certain places like dinner for a first date, to see how they treat the employees."
- Kooshdoctor
"This infuriates me (doubly so when I'm absolutely slammed)."
"'Anything else I can get for you guys?'"
"'A side of mustard.'"
"Sure, no problem. I go get a ramekin, fill it with mustard, and bring it to the guests."
"'And an iced tea.'"
"...Yep, sure thing. Go back to make the iced tea, and bring it over."
"'And some extra napkins.'"
"SURE. Go back and get the f**king napkins. Bring it to them."
"'Oh and...'"
"Could y'all please just tell me this the FIRST TIME? Why are you making me run laps like this?"
"I have a million, trillion other things customers do that are absolutely enraging but this is the first that came to mind."
- ratedgforgenitals
"I was a waitress in a small cafe when I was 17/18, but I've always looked younger than my actual age. For all they knew, I was 15."
"The amount of older men (I'm talking 60+) that would stare at me and flirt at me IN FRONT OF THEIR WIVES was gross."
"One time I walked past one of these men on the way to the kitchen, he gripped my upper arm, pulled me down, and went, Your soup is S**T.'"
"The soup probably was bad, but it was the strength in his grip and the way he was willing to do that to a young girl that really freaked me out."
- Cumulus-Crafts
"Once upon a time, two patrons both grabbed me REALLY hard while fighting over the check. That was the only time I've ever gotten to actually shout at guests:"
"'TAKE YOUR HANDS OFF OF ME RIGHT NOW.'"
"They were like deer in headlights. It was epic, lol (laughing out loud)."
- Calgaris_Rex
"The way that parents of young children let their kids watch their tablets LOUDLY when waiting for food. I know that you have to keep your kid entertained, but not everyone in the restaurant wants to hear Ryan's World unboxing videos on your crusty Amazon Fire tablet."
- Cumulus-Crafts
"I went out to eat for the first time in quite a while a couple of weeks back, at a Denny's of all places, just me and my 10-month-old."
"Right next to my booth, a child was watching Tiktoks on his phone, volume up. Two booths down a kid was watching Minecraft playthrough loud enough I could hear every detail. And on the opposite wall from mine, a kid had his tablet turned up, watching something that sounded like TikTok, but he kept rewinding and replaying parts so I have no clue other than it was loud enough I could make out a lot of it."
"Not only is this rude to waiters and other diners but like, can you really not just make a 30-minute part of your day screen-free? You guys are eating food; have a conversation and be a family, for f**k's sake."
- thingsarehardsoami
"'The customer is always right.'"
"F**k right off, sometimes the customer is an entitled spoilt brat who needs to show some respect and stop talking down to everyone like they own the place."
- Background-Factor817
"I'm in Germany, and I know this is appropriate in other countries, but snapping to get my attention p**ses me right off. I usually then take an extra round checking on other people before actually paying attention to the snapping customer as a result."
- theTrueMoon0
"From the US, it's not acceptable. Some people do it because they were raised poorly, but it is unacceptable. Take as many extra rounds to make a point as you'd like."
- SixicusTheSixth
"Sometimes when it’s not busy, people walk in and sit at the only table in the whole f**king place that isn’t cleaned. Like, plates and glasses left from the previous visitors."
"What in the actual f**k are those people thinking? It’s not that we’re a small place with only two tables or something, we seat around 300 people. THERE ARE OTHER TABLES."
- Cashewkaas
"And then they wave you down like, 'Um, excuse me? Can you clean our table? It's dirty.' YEAH, NO S**T."
- ratedgforgenitals
"When they seat themselves and you go to the table, and they just say 'Uh, menu?' like you're an id**t or something."
"Like yeah, the host would’ve given you one if you WAITED TO BE SAT. (Cue crazy smile.)"
"But let me go grab that menu for you after you just spoke to me like I’m the id**t in this situation. (Insert more crazy smiles here.)"
- Hotdogwater88888
"I work at Five Guys, and I won’t deny, the prices are really jacked up, but that has got nothing to do with me."
"I’ve had several customers say to me when I’m taking their order, 'Why do YOU raise the prices this high?' or when I tell them the total of the order, they are convinced I added fraudulent items to their order to make it that high, like they can’t look at the screen in front of them and do the math."
- BigBadRhinoCow
"Oh my god, same. I have had people get mad at me for not providing discounts when I tell them we don't offer any type of discounts. I'm like, why are you blaming me for something I have no control over?"
- amercuryadept2010
"Like, sir, sir. SIR. At what point, and under what evidence, did you think I made decisions for the company? I, sir, am in a t-shirt-based uniform at a nationwide chain with hundreds of locations This is not what the CEO wears."
- Osageandrot
"In a college town pub, a couple of guys sat down at closing time, and the one with slicked-back hair said, 'Do you know who I am?'"
- teetuh
"If you think you're not getting tipped anyway, you can put people like that down a few notches by interpreting it as dementia or amnesia or something."
"Like, 'Is your friend okay? My grandmother sometimes forgets who she is, too.'"
- delta_baryon
"I overheard something similar at a bar once. This really drunk woman yelled, 'Do you know who my father is?'"
"Without missing a beat, the bartender replied, 'That's really a question for your mother.'"
- Mystic_Waffles
"When customers make me their target practice for their kids learning how to order at a restaurant. So I have to stand there for an extra 10 minutes when I have seven other tables waiting, and listen to some variation of this:"
"Parent: Mikey? Mikey? Look at the nice lady, Mikey. Okay, Mikey. Tell the nice lady what you want to eat. (Sheepishly smiles at me.) Mikey? Do you want eggy? Okay, tell the nice lady you want eggy."
"Mikey: (Incoherent mumbling)"
"Parent: He said he’ll have eggs. (Looks back down at Mikey.) Okay, now do you want cheesy eggy? Mikey? Look at Mommy. Do you want cheesy eggy or dippy eggy? Mikey? Okay, tell the nice lady what you want, Mikey."
"Just kill me."
- ScuzeRude
It makes absolute sense why these are some of these Redditors' least favorite things to encounter while working in a restaurant.
From general rudeness to crossing boundaries, some of these really made our skin crawl.