JD Vance was mocked online after C-Span footage from Budapest on 8 April showed the US vice president comparing his wife's skydiving ambitions to Iran's insistence on its 'right to enrichment' in nuclear talks, a remark many viewers branded 'cringey' and 'a verbal pretzel.'
The footage emerged after Vance travelled to Hungary earlier in the week to back Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's re-election bid, an unusually brazen show of support from a senior American politician for a foreign leader facing the polls.
