VANCE ANSWERED WITH NINE SECONDS OF A GUY FAKE-DRIVING A SUBWAY

On November 2, the eve of the midterms, the VP account posted a graphic titled "The Trump Admin Delivers for New York," with bullets on safer communities, tax cuts for working families and historic investments. "We got your back, New York!" Vance wrote. Mayor Zohran Mamdani quote-posted it with a nine-second clip and zero words. In the video, a guy in a high-vis vest walks up to a subway train, puts his hands out to stop it, opens the doors, waves riders aboard, closes up and sends the train on its way. He did none of that. The train was doing all of it anyway. The clip belongs to prankster Olly Bee, who bills himself as the world's hardest worker and posted it back in December 2025. Bee told HuffPost that Mamdani is the goat and that this was the best use of the video, then asked for a collab, which, honestly, he earned. Then the receipts showed up. Vance's post got hit with a Community Note saying several figures weren't federal results or NY-specific, that the $472B investment number lumps in nationwide pledges like Micron's $250B, and that the 48% murder drop comes from New York's state-run GIVE program. Worth noting the Note is user-written, not an outlet's fact-check, and the outlets enjoying this the most all lean left. Per People, the reply cleared 50 million views and 1.7 million likes. Vance's original: 27.4 million views, 9,300 likes.

Why you should give a shit: A sitting vice president lost 1.7 million to 9,300 to a man who posted no words at all, which is the going rate for taking credit for a train that was already moving.