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The protesters jeered Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller as they visited Union Station, blocks from the U.S. Capitol, to thank the troops at a Shake Shack where they bought lunch for the guard members.
The Trump administration has deployed an overwhelming show of force in the nation's capital in response to a supposed “crime emergency.”
Protesters heckled Vice President JD Vance and Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth as they walked through Union Station in Washington, D.C., to meet National Guard troops deployed under President Donald Trump’s emergency order.
As protesters chanted nearby, U.S. Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller visited National Guardsmen in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday.
The VP dismissed the demonstrators as ‘old, primarily white people’ who have ‘never felt danger in their entire lives.’
JD Vance joined two other Trump administration officials who received an unwarm welcome during a photo op with National Guard troops stationed at Union Station.