Social media roasts JD Vance after painfully awkward meeting with Pope Leo goes viral and raises eyebrows worldwide

A weird video of Vice President JD Vance meeting Pope Leo XIV went viral on TikTok and other social media. This happened after Pope Leo's first Mass in Rome on Sunday. People online think Pope Leo kind of ignored or dissed Vance during their meeting.

Vance was once among the final few U.S. officials to meet the previous Pope, Francis. Vance saw Francis at the Vatican just a day before he passed away. That meeting also went viral because people joked that Francis died because of Vance’s visit.

In the viral video, JD Vance and his wife, Usha Vance, are seen walking up to Pope Leo. They shake hands and talk for a bit. But people say the Pope’s body language was super cold and uncomfortable.

Reactions

A TikTok user wrote, “He does not like Vance. Body language is everything”. Another person said, “That shrug by the pope in the end was a ward off evil shrug.”

Someone else added, “You can tell the Pope was relieved when that interaction ended.”

One TikTok user even called out Vance’s behavior, “JD Vance has zero protocol, he tried to touch the Pope like he was his bro. Zero manners. Ughhhh.”

Another said Leo “had to shake it off” after Vance left. On X, someone joked the Pope “shooed JD Vance and his wife away” with a hand gesture. They called it “hilarious.”

These reactions were mentioned in the report by Yahoo.

About Trump’s immigration policies, Pope Leo was against. Back in 2015, Leo shared an article by Cardinal Timothy Dolan named as “Why Donald Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Is So Problematic”, as per reports published in a Washington Post.

Even recently in February, Leo shared another article against JD Vance, titled as “JD Vance Is Wrong, Jesus Doesn’t Ask Us To Rank Our Love For Others.”

On 19th May, again Vance met Pope Leo at the Vatican. This happened before Trump’s big announcement that Russia and Ukraine might start peace talks. At this second meeting, Secretary of State Marco Rubio was also with JD Vance.

FAQs

Q1. Why is JD Vance’s meeting with Pope Leo going viral?
Because people think the Pope looked uncomfortable and distant in the video.

Q2. Did JD Vance meet Pope Francis before he died?
Yes, he met Pope Francis less than 24 hours before the Pope passed away.