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Joe Biden & Anime Girls vs. The Trump Dump

Sure, he’s likable enough. But the only thing worse (better?) than these pics of the veep with anime characters is the Trump Dump.

Vice President Joe Biden seems like the kindly uncle you’d find on any homespun primetime family dramedy. But it’s hard to deny that sometimes all that sweetness comes across as a little, um, creepy? It’s hard to forget that time Uncle Joe made a teenage girl, and subsequently the entire Internet, feel a little shudder of discomfort when he went in for that “fatherly” smooch:

And he does have that strange penchant for cooing in ladies’ ears, but we’re sure he’s just giving good advice or dropping a harmless compliment, right? Right. Then again, he’s also got a rep for handily dispensing dating advice when talking to young lasses:

Now, as Biden weighs the pros and cons of another presidential bid, Twitter user @neontaster has welcomed the VP into the thus-far-comical 2016 White House fray by, what else, photoshopping him into various awkward interactions with Japanimation characters.

And Uncle Biden’s not the only aspirational politico getting a cartoon makeover: A mural of frontrunner Donald Trump mysteriously appeared in his hometown of New York this week, making a rather on-the-nose statement. Behold, the Trump Dump:

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