Vice-President JD Vance was booed and heckled loudly during a trip to the Union Station in Washington, D.C.
Vance, along with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and White House Deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, stopped by at the station’s Shake Shack for a photo-op with members of the national guard Donald Trump deployed to DC as part of the administration’s federal takeover of the city.
Videos posted to social media show protesters shouting “Free D.C.” and others yelling expletives at Vance including “couch f*cker” and “fascist scum.”
One heckler could be heard asking, “You gonna f*ck a couch, buddy?”
Vance responded to the protests telling reporters, “it’s kind of bizarre that we have a bunch of old, primarily white people who are out there protesting the policies that keep people safe when they’ve never felt danger in their entire lives.”
When asked why the troops were stationed at Union Station instead of parts of the city with higher crime rates, Vance claimed that the station was being overrun with homeless people and visitors didn’t feel safe.
“This should be a monument to American greatness,” he said.
Miller similarly dismissed the protests the protesters as not from DC.
“All these demonstrators that you’ve seen out here in recent days, all of these elderly white hippies, they’re not part of the city and never have been,” Miller said.
