Vice President JD Vance claims he was confronted by pro-Ukrainian protesters while taking a walk with his 3-year-old daughter on Saturday (March 8).
“Today while walking my 3 year old daughter a group of ‘Slava Ukraini’ protesters followed us around and shouted as my daughter grew increasingly anxious and scared,” Vance wrote on his X account. “I decided to speak with the protesters in the hopes that I could trade a few minutes of conversation for them leaving my toddler alone. (Nearly all of them agreed.) It was a mostly respectful conversation, but if you’re chasing a 3-year-old as part of a political protest, you’re a s**t person.”
“The bitter irony of America’s present predicament is that the very people who cheer for permanent arms shipments to Ukraine also supported the de-industrialization of America. The very things you want us to send are things we don’t make enough of,” Vance wrote on his X account last Sunday (March 2).
Vance and his family were met with backlash at Sugarbush Resort in Waitsfield during what was scheduled to be a four-day trip. Hundreds of protesters were present, which included signs calling Vance a “national disgrace,” a “traitor” and encouraging his family to “go ski in Russia” after his heated discussion with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky alongside President Donald Trump at the White House on February 28.
Counter-protesters were also present at the resort, which resulted in a shouting match. Vance and his family were reportedly forced to flee the resort, instead moving to an “undisclosed location,” according to the New York Post. The protests were reportedly planned earlier in the week, but intensified after Vance and Trump publicly argued with Zelensky at the Oval Office and scrapped a mineral rights deal.
Vermont Republican Gov. Phil Scott urged protesters to take consideration for Vance and his family ahead of the resort visit.
“I hope Vermonters remember the Vice President is here on a family trip with his young children and, while we may not always agree, we should be respectful,” Scott said in a statement obtained by the New York Post Thursday (February 27). “Please join me in welcoming them to Vermont, and hoping they have an opportunity to experience what makes our state, and Vermonters, so special.”
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