You know those awkward scenes you’ve seen in restaurants or in movies or in City Hall where some self-important blowhard says “Don’t you know who I am?” It turns out sometimes the straight-up answer is no.

Vice Presidential candidate JD “Weird” Vance found that out the hard way in a Georgia donut shop on Thursday.

Vance, who has already had his share of cringe-worthy interactions and gaffes on the campaign trail, seems determined to let people keep thinking that he’s a robotic, right-wing sociopath. And he continued his Reign of Error this week when he stopped into Holt’s Sweet Shop in Valdosta, Georgia, trying to make himself relatable.

Instead, he made the employees uncomfortable and made it look like he’s never ordered a donut in his life.

“The zoo has come to town. Thank you for letting us come in here,” said Vance triumphantly. “I don’t want to be on camera,” one female employee immediately told him as he popped in for the embarrassing interaction.

“She doesn’t want to be on film, guys, so just cut her out of anything,” he said, turning to the camera crew while still standing directly in front of her so she couldn’t be cut out. The employee was instead blurred in the video that the campaign inexplicably decided to release, despite it being just creepy.

For the record, after Vance awkwardly told her “I’m JD Vance and I’m running for Vice President” and she responded with a curt “Okay,” his crew continued to film the woman. You can clearly see her face in the video that made it to the internet.

Then Vance grilled her and another employee on how long they’d worked there. Obviously neither of them had any idea the interaction was going to go down. Both looked equally nonplussed as they answered “Since July” (the original employee) and “About two years” (the coworker who joined her).

More small talk, and then Vance comes in with the brutal self-own: He has no idea how many donuts to order, or what kind, randomly picking some from the “We got a lot of glazed over here” section, the “Some sprinkles” section, and the “I guess some cinnamon rolls, I don’t know” section.

There are countless versions of the hilariously bad exchange bouncing around X right now, so we picked the one with subtitles for you, so you can see just how awful he looks trying to be a regular guy.

Vance might as well have stuck a gas pump nozzle in his windshield washer fluid tank.

But the would-be second in command is no stranger to this kind of bizarre behavior. His idiotic comments while trying to push the lie that Tim Walz had lied about his time in the military prompted a resounding “shut the f*ck up” from the former mayor of the town he was talking about, Chicago, while he spoke in Wisconsin on Tuesday:

A nice thing about not being mayor anymore is I don’t care who hears me tell this clown to STFU. https://t.co/gj80kWbLYg

— Lori Lightfoot (@LoriLightfoot) August 21, 2024

Like Trump, with his whining about the Queen calling him rude, JD Vance is a petulant, freewheeling jerk who has no filter whatsoever. He absolutely just says whatever words are stored up in his rattling brainpan, begging him to part his lips and let them escape.

But this unscripted campaign stop has got to be one of the worst we’ve ever seen like this. Some campaigns go from zero to sixty in no time flat; Vance seems to go from zero to about five in a minute and a half. The best thing he did while he was inside Holt’s Sweet Shop was grab the door handle to leave.

Watch:

JD Vance had a very awkward visit to a donut shop in Georgia earlier. Trust us, it’s worse than you even think. pic.twitter.com/Fnohh0bKUf

— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) August 22, 2024