Vice President JD Vance slammed anti-Israel protesters during a visit to Washington’s Union Station for advocating against safety in the nation’s capital.
“This is the guy who thinks people don’t deserve law and order in their own community,” Vance said, pointing to a screaming protester.
Vance, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, and White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller gave burgers from Shake Shack to members of the National Guard, who are protecting Union Station, a Metro subway stop on Capitol Hill previously plagued by vagrancy.
Protesters repeatedly chanted “Free D.C., Free Palestine,” and booed the Cabinet officials as they left the Shake Shack franchise there.
Miller said he would be ignoring the “stupid” protesters.
“We’re going to ignore these stupid, white hippies that all need to go home and take a nap because they’re all over 90 years old,” he said.
Miller said a majority of D.C.’s residents are black.
“This is not a city that has had any safety for its black citizens for generations, and President Trump is the one who is fixing that,” he said.
Before leaving Union Station, Vance clapped back at a reporter who suggested that there is no evidence of a crime crisis in the District.
“Obviously, D.C. has a terrible crime problem,” Vance said. “The Department of Justice statistics back it up … Let’s free Washington, D.C., from one of the highest murder rates in the entire world.”
He also answered a question about a poll supposedly showing a majority of D.C. residents don’t support the National Guard presence ordered by Trump.
“I don’t know what poll you are talking about,” he said. “Maybe it’s the same poll that said Kamala Harris would win the popular vote by 10 points.”
“I am highly skeptical a majority of D.C. residents do not want their city to have better public safety and more reasonable safety standards within Washington, D.C.,” he said.
