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I think I now know how my kids felt when I started saying “six seven” in order to sound cool in front of them. When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and JD Vance exchanged posts on X (formerly Twitter) sharing a meme of Vance, it was so cringe that I had to click away in disgust. RFK Jr. posted a reply to Vance when Vance tweeted at him about adding ice cream to the 2026 food pyramid.
RFK Jr.’s response was in the form of a long-standing meme that someone made of Vance, where his face is much more plump and his eyeliner-covered eyes look exceptionally creepy. Maybe it was an attempt to look cool to younger voters and the younger members of the American public as a whole. But no one asked RFK Jr. to join in on the JD Vance meme joke.
RFK Jr. and JD Vance’s social media exchange is cringe at best.
Caution! Do not take dietary advice from this guy https://t.co/uRH86kGuIH pic.twitter.com/6za1U65WOC
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) January 8, 2026
On Jan. 7, 2026, RFK Jr. and the Department of Health and Human Services released a new standard for the food pyramid of suggested foods for Americans to eat. Besides the overwhelmingly mid response on social media, with some of RFK Jr.’s critics calling out the pyramid for looking like a slice of pizza and others saying it’s just full of common sense suggestions, Vance apparently had to get in on the comments.
He posted about RFK Jr. forgetting to include the “dietary staple” of ice cream. Heh heh, yeah good one. I mean, that seems to be what he expected the response to be from everyone who rigidly follows MAGA. In response, RFK Jr. responded to him, clearly as a joke, with the meme and wrote, “Caution! Do not take dietary advice from this guy.”
That meme is sacred for those who oppose Vance, Donald Trump, and the values they stand for. Literally no one asked RFK Jr., or whoever manages his personal X account, to take the meme and run with it to be in on the joke. But take it he did, and someone commented on the thread on X with, “LMFAO, I have to admit — the Trump Cabinet will be best known for embracing the memes.”
Although Vance originally tagged RFK Jr.’s Secretary Kennedy account on X, the Department of Health and Human Services head used his personal account to respond. Per Reuters, RFK Jr.’s personal account is confirmed to be his, and he decided to use that account to respond to Vance’s post with the iconic meme.
JD Vance has embraced his own meme before.
— JD Vance (@JDVance) October 31, 2025
On Halloween in 2025, Vance posted a selfie on X where he is clearly recreating the meme, complete with the creepy facial expression and curly wig. It’s clearly an ‘if you can’t beat them, join them’ mentality, but every time Vance posts about the meme that is used to make fun of him, it comes across as more cringe than anything else.
