JD Vance joins TikTok – and bizarrely uses first video to promote hard seltzer

Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance has joined TikTok – and bizarrely used his first video to promote a hard seltzer.

Joined by Nelk, a group of YouTubers known for their prank videos and vlogs, the video shows Vance accepting a box of Happy Dad Hard Seltzer.

“I appreciate it dude, we’ll use it on the airplane,” Vance says in the video, posted on Thursday.

Donald Trump’s running mate captioned the post: “Launching my TikTok with @NELKBOYS.”

TikTok users gave mixed reactions to his first outing on the social media platform, coming two months after the former president also created an account.

While some celebrated it, others mocked Vance for the awkward video.

dismissed it with what ultimate buzz word for this year’s presidential election campaigns to slate him.

“Welcome weirdo”, commented one user – referring to thebig buzzword of this election season.

Another TikTok user said that Vance has “zero fizz” while some went as far as to call him a “spineless jellyfish” who “folds over his principles in the pursuit of power.”

Over on X, one person commented: “JD Vance’s first TikTok and he has all the charisma of Ron DeSantis at a state fair.”

Vance’s decision to join the platform comes despite him having previously advocated for TikTok to be banned in the US.

“We ought to do something about TikTok, but I think we also ought to do something about Google,” he said in March this year, reported The Huffington Post.

The House passed a bill in April forcing Chinese owner ByteDance to sell the viral social media platform within a year in order to avoid a nationwide ban.

Both Democratic and Republican lawmakers argued that the app poses a national security risk due to its alleged ties to the Chinese government.

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