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Trump's Iran address sparks memes: ‘He
was constantly staring’

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Posted By: Harlowe, 6/22/2025 6:32:01 PM

President Donald Trump addressed the nation on Saturday night, shortly after announcing that the United States had launched strikes on three major Iranian nuclear enrichment facilities—Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan.(Snip) However, what quickly drew attention online was JD Vance’s visibly “confused” expression, which soon became the subject of memes and social media speculation. (Snip) Another wrote, “Vance doesn't look happy at all.”

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Confused? Frown? Scowl? Concentration?

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Venturer 6/22/2025 6:36:40 PM (No. 1968069)
Perhaps it makes the Indian people feel better to feed this scat to their readers, but it is merely BS.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: FJB 2022 23 24 6/22/2025 6:47:28 PM (No. 1968074)
Vance looked serious as was the message Trump was giving. Totally appropriate
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Catherine 6/22/2025 6:53:28 PM (No. 1968078)
Consider the source. He just found some new adjectives he wanted to use and figured this was a good place to experiment with them.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: earlybird 6/22/2025 7:00:36 PM (No. 1968086)
Why some never assimilate. I don't predict a great future for this author if picking what he judges to be negative memes out of social ,media is the best he can do when President Trump was talking off the bombings of Iranian nuclear facilities.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: DVC 6/22/2025 7:09:08 PM (No. 1968088)
Stupid comments by Trump haters. Ignore.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: kono 6/22/2025 7:20:32 PM (No. 1968092)
What the image shows that HT apparently misreads: Vance's glare is at the camera / press - he is resolute and dead serious. If anybody strikes PDJT, they'll get Bruce Banner, instead. (Don't make him angry. You wouldn't like him when he's angry...)
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Reply 7 - Posted by: JimBob 6/22/2025 10:32:39 PM (No. 1968150)
Sounds to me like the 'Orange Man Bad' crowd can't find anything to criticize, so they invent 'the look'. Heaven Forbid that they actually say anything GOOD about President Trump or his team!
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Reply 8 - Posted by: JHHolliday 6/22/2025 10:33:50 PM (No. 1968151)
Good grief. If Vance had to scratch his ear, they would say it's a sign that he hates Trump. TDS has rotted his and others' brains.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: udanja99 6/23/2025 6:43:07 AM (No. 1968186)
Facial expressions evidently mean different things in different cultures. This writer obviously knows little about American culture.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: franco 6/23/2025 8:26:47 AM (No. 1968238)
For those who aren't aware, the on-line Indian press enterprises are some of the most sensationalist in using click-batey thumbnails that have no connection to reality, but may serve to feed the heart-felt partisan wishes of their readers. I see this all the time with YouTube news channels based in India. I have learned that it's best to ignore all Indian media outlets. Their "reporting" generally tends to combine Soviet accuracy in reporting with Hollywood sensationalism.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: snakeoil 6/23/2025 10:19:12 AM (No. 1968286)
I can't determine the meaning of facial expressions. Neither can the author of this article. He should have seen the look on my face when ex dim POTUS candidate and Mass Senator Jon Carry deposited pallets of US cash on the door of the mad mullahs.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: JoElla Bee 6/23/2025 10:56:43 AM (No. 1968306)
I don’t know what VP Vance was looking at, but he didn’t appear to be looking at the President to me. I also noticed that something caught the eye of Secretary Hegseth during the speech. It just made me wonder what was happening behind the cameras. One thing I do know. It is absolutely absurd to think that any one, or all, of those men was anything less than fully supportive and respectful of PDJT and our military regarding this mission.
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