Social Media Can’t Get Over JD Vance’s Tiny Little Pants

JD Vance’s pants are causing a stir online, as people begin to realize that his CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference) fashion faux pas wasn’t his first.

It’s no surprise that Elon Musk stole the show at the conservative conference in Washington, D.C. last week, considering he was gifted a shiny chainsaw by kooky Argentinian President Javier Milei. But the vice president didn’t totally fly under the radar, with people still wondering why his pants were so short days after the conservative get together.

There is no evidence to suggest that Musk swung his new chainsaw so wildly that it severed a section of fabric from his colleague’s lower leg, but it certainly does appear that the pants were several inches too short.

“I needed to know if his pants were always too short, did he put them in the dryer?” social media creator Peggy Shinners asked in an Instagram reel turned deep dive on Vance’s pants. “They are always that short!” she added, showing several pictures of the politician rocking weirdly short suit trousers at public events.

“There’s always just a lil' peek of right shin coming right on out,” she laughed. “It’s sending me, I can’t take it. This is absurd, it looks crazy!”

He flanked CPAC commentator Mercedes Schlapp and looked perfectly normal from the waist up, but when the camera switched to a wide angle, his legs were visible in all their majesty.

“JD Vance is such a Constitutionalist that he wears 1700s britches and stockings,” joked one user on X, sharing a mocked up image of the politician kicking back with some of the country’s founding fathers.

Menswear commentator Derek Guy even weighed in. “The second lady should advise him to get wider pants and over the calf socks so that his bare leg doesn’t show when he sits down,” the influential menswear writer said.

But what Shinners’ video made clear is that this was no one-off. It showed him at a “Gen Z Town Hall” in High Point, North Carolina, hosted by Turning Point Action back in December, with his trousers riding high. It also showed him with weirdly baggy trousers in April 2022 at a townhall in Delaware.

In October last year he rubbed salt in his own wounds when he doubled his short trousers with bizarre dog-themed socks. That was during a town hall in Greensboro, North Carolina, where he took on then-Governor Tim Walz and went on a bizarre rant where he said “they want you to live in a pod, eat bugs and own nothing.”