Vice President JD Vance cranked the cringe dial up to eleven with his latest attempt at a joke at the Ohio Republican Party dinner in Lima, Ohio, on Tuesday. Vance, while delivering the event’s keynote speech, was talking about how it’s essential to take the rough with the smooth in politics when he said:

JD Vance followed Trump’s expletive-filled rant Tuesday with a stunt of his own by throwing the middle finger to a crowd in a tirade against his critics. The vice president used a hometown speech at a Republican dinner in Ohio to attack what he described as “pink-haired people” who he claimed approached him in public.