JD Vance's Hanukkah invitation says 'Celebrating 50 years of Christmas' in embarrassing blunder

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Independent

Thursday 04 December 2025 16:24 EST


In an apparent oversight, Vice President JD Vance has reportedly sent out invitations for a Hanukkah party that said “Celebrating 50 years of Christmas.”

The holiday mix-up was noted by Gabby Deutch, a reporter for Jewish Insider, who shared a photo of the invitation on X Wednesday.

The invite states: “The vice president & the second lady request the pleasure of your company for a Hanukkah reception at the vice president’s residence.” The event is scheduled for December 15. Above this, in large cursive lettering, it reads: “Golden Noel,” followed by “Celebrating 50 years of Christmas at the vice president’s residence.”

It’s not the first time the White House has included references to Christmas while celebrating Hanukkah, Deutch noted. In November 2008, invites for then-President George W. Bush’s Hanukkah reception included images of Christmas trees.

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/vance-hanukkah-invitation-christmas-blunder-b2878401.html

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This was no "blunder". It was intentional.


An invitation reportedly received by Gabby Deutch, a reporter for Jewish Insider.

Gabby Deutch, X

[Irish_Dem]

1. I think it was intentional too.

[efhmc]

16. I do not disagree but am wondering what they are trying to prove except that they are ruthless murders, who hate

nonwhites.

[Irish_Dem]

17. Christians are the only ones who deserve all the money and power.

They are the only ones who count.

This is the message.

[Buddyzbuddy]

2. Absolutely intentional.

[efhmc]

15. I am not so sure. I think they are just really, really stupid.

[Buddyzbuddy]

20. These are some insidious mother......s

that are primarily evil and happen to be really, really stupid. The intent is primary, the poor execution is secondary. More than one person proof reads and approves.

[Exultant Democracy]

36. In a normal Whitehouse

But this one isn't typical. You always have to balance the evidence at hand with the question of it it their evil, their stupid, their greedy or their incompetence behind most of the things they produce.
In this instance the inherent bigotry of LLM’s and a Whitehouse where we known they are lazy and sloppy with AI seems to be another credible possibility for how this was produced.

[ck4829]

25. It really was

[C_U_L8R]

3. I'm also curious about that typeface

Must be Lazyboy Bold

[BumRushDaShow]

5. Looks like the cursive equivalent

of MS Comic Sans.

[Blue Owl]

27. It's called Sofa Cushion Script

[yardwork]

23. It's really atrocious, isn't it?

Blech.

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. Of course it was intentional - "Noël" is the French for "Christmas", derived from the Latin for "birth"

If they call it "The Golden Noël", they've said "50 years of Christmas" twice.

[QueerDuck]

6. Ugh. What a ridiculous looking typestyle (font) the designer chose. It reminds me of The Partridge Family font or...

the "Sweet Charity" typestyle. Groovy!

[Blue Owl]

28. Might as well just have used Hobo or Bell Bottom

[QueerDuck]

30. Ha! 😂🤣 Yes!! I can see it!

[QueerDuck]

34. And... this one. 💕

[Chasstev365]

7. OK Goebellsvision, aka Fox:

Will you start talking about the "War on Hanukkah?"

[Paladin]

8. Never EVER assume a Yale law degree makes you smart. (nt)

[Ray Bruns]

9. Not intentional. They're just fucking morons.

[FakeNoose]

10. According to JD Vance and wife, Christmas goes all the way back to 50 years ago ... so 1975?

OK, good to know

[Pinback]

29. Yeah, you know, when Jesus rode a dinosaur in the Easter parade!

[70sEraVet]

11. Proof that you can now say 'Merry Christmas',

regardless of whether or nor it's appropriate.

[mpcamb]

35. And say it with all the sincerity of the the Vance family toilet seat.

[delisen]

12. Second Lady is such an unfortunate term.

When we restore democracy let’s drop the female Imitation royalty honorifics.

[quaint]

13. In California, we have a fantastic first partner.

[BumRushDaShow]

14. Well don't forget

that Doug Emhoff was the first "Second Gentleman" with respect to VP Kamala Harris.

[riversedge]

19. I had already forgotten--the time seems sooooooo long ago.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

21. Second Plus-One?

It has a certain bland and meaningless style to it.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

18. The Vances are throwing a Christmas Party to celebrate Hanukkuh?

How very Christian of them!

Hope those celebrating the Jewish holy rite of lights stay home.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

22. Vance will learn about Hanukkah after he converts to Judaism, which he wil do ...

... when it becomes a political expedience.

I'm sure he is currently a fine, devout, newly-minted Catholic, with his shiny membership card to Opus Dei.

[ck4829]

24. Kick

[karynnj]

26. The best guess that it was not intentional, just thoughtless

might be that they are using that Golden Noel, graphic and tag line for all the December celebrations and no one thought it out that this was not good for the Hanukkah event.

[Pinback]

31. That's my guess. They used the same file as for the Xmas party and just changed a couple of things.

It’s also highly possible that the invitation was done in some automated graphics generator based on an AI prompt. These people are dumb, mean, and lazy.

[BumRushDaShow]

32. "no one thought it out"

When you occupy a position at the very top level of the federal government, you are EXPECTED to "think it out". The staff are SUPPOSED TO be keeping track and doing some kind of "quality control".

QC was expected and demanded by those "above", for the general civil servant workforce, and in this case, with all the bogus justifications for financially "punishing" people and institutions for "antisemitism", the very act of what they did with these invites, embodies it.

[LudwigPastorius]

33. What a ferschluggineh schmegegge!

Vance should only go shit in his hat.