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Philadelphia Honors JD Vance With His Own Mural in Fishtown
Philadelphia is known as a city of murals. We have thousands of them, some official, some not. The New York Times recently did an in-depth feature on the murals of Philadelphia. In other words, murals are a big deal here. And you can now add a new mural to the list, one depicting United States Vice President JD Vance.
No, this is not a mural using his official White House photo. Far from it. This is a mural of the JD Vance-as-a-bald-fat-baby meme that has been circulating for what seems like forever. The JD Vance Philadelphia mural just went up over the weekend, and this is what it looks like:
TikTok user @haute_potato captured the JD Vance mural in a video posted on Sunday that has since garnered close to 775,000 likes and nearly 4,000 comments. Some other amusing TikTok videos on the new JD Vance mural include this one and this time-lapsed one. And here’s the guy who came up with the whole thing. Notably, a similar mural of JD Vance recently popped up in England…