J. D. Vance doesn’t look like himself. In recent days, memes have spread across social media in which the vice president’s face has been Photoshopped to give him cartoonishly chubby cheeks. He looks like a bearded baby or Humpty Dumpty.

If Trump is King, Vance is the Monarch of Memes, the Majesty of Mockery, the Rajah of Ridicule — which means Trump’s top lieutenants (Musk and Vance) are internet laughingstocks. The vice president’s face is no longer his own.

Instead, you will see images of J.D. Vance’s face, artificially stretched, bloated, and reddened, Photoshopped onto a Minion — or the Kevin James meme, or Butter Pants from Shrek, or the Las Vegas Sphere.

Though distorted photos of his face have been popular for months, a recent photo of Vance in the White House discussion with Zelensky and Trump with his face distorted into a youn