
The internet has declared JD Vance cursed after the Vice President visited the Pope, the Pope died; flew to Pakistan to stop a war, the war did not stop; and travelled to Budapest to save Viktor Orban, Orban lost.
All three diplomatic and political missions collapsed within roughly a year of each other, capped off by a fourth incident that has nothing to do with geopolitics but everything to do with optics: Vance dropped a championship trophy live on the White House lawn.