Republican Party uses pic of Ho Chi Minh City for GOP convention in Milwaukee

Wisconsin and Vietnam may not have a lot in common, but the Republican Party struggled to tell them apart when designing the 2024 convention website, according to a new report.

Boston Globe reporter Sam Brodey was looking up information on the convention website and couldn't help but notice that the skyline photo of Milwaukee didn't look like Milwaukee.

"Which makes sense because it's actually a photo of Ho Chi Minh City," he said on the social media site X.

It took less than 30 minutes after Brodey posted the tweet and the screen capture for the RNC to rush to fix the flub.

"Update: the 2024 GOP convention's 'news and updates' page now has an image of host city Milwaukee, not Ho Chi Minh City. Wayback Machine has a screengrab for posterity," he wrote, linking to the previous cache of the site.

With a population of over 9 million, Ho Chi Minh City has more than two dozen high-rise buildings in the photo, whereas Milwaukee, home to 563,000 people, has under a dozen.

"Getting a little ahead of themselves with the dictatorship thing," quipped environmentalist Bill McKibben in response.

Melissa Jo Peltier commentated: "How metaphorical."

Ryan Bennett asked why this keeps happening to the GOP, and listed off a few recent examples.

"HCMC. Russian soldiers instead of US soldiers. Nazi nonsense in ads. Russian and/or Chinese armaments. It's weird how often this happens," he said.

In a number of memes posted by Donald Trump, stock photos using foreign military ended up being used instead of American ones.

Such was the case when Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL) wished the U.S. Navy a happy birthday with a photo of Russian battlecruiser, the Pyotr Velikiy.

Trump most recently used a stock image of a newspaper that celebrated what the world would look like under a second presidency.

Under each headline, a sentence appeared saying, "Industrial strength significantly increased ... driven by the creation of a unified Reich."

The cache of the site is still available on the Internet Wayback Machine site.