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Marco Rubio Shares Painfully Awkward Vanity Fair Photo — And JD Vance Really Rubs It In

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19.12.2025

Vice President JD Vance, left, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio were among seven White House officials featured in a bombshell Vanity Fair article about the Trump administration.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s efforts to make light of a bombshell two-part Vanity Fair article that rattled the Trump administration this week drew a wisecrack from Vice President JD Vance.

On Wednesday, Rubio updated his profile image on X to one of the article’s divisive photos by Christopher Anderson, which shows him in side profile.

Moments later, Vance responded to Rubio’s post with a dunk.

“I guess I owe that guy $1,000,” he wrote.

Vance’s comment was an allusion to a joking exchange he’d reportedly had with Anderson at the White House last month during the photoshoot.

“I’ll give you $100 for every person you make look really shitty compared to me,” he told Anderson, per The New York Times. “And $1,000 if it’s Marco.”

I guess I owe that guy $1,000

— JD Vance (@JDVance) December 18, 2025

Anderson photographed a total of seven members of........

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