Vice President JD Vance has likely become all too familiar with getting relentlessly booed and heckled while out in public. And for many people on social media who oppose the Trump administration, the loud protests have been quite satisfying.
On Wednesday, Vance was accompanied by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller when he was heckled and booed during a visit to Washington, D.C.’s Union Station amid President Donald Trump’s militarized takeover of the city’s police.
In a video clip captured by HuffPost’s Igor Bobic, loud boos can be heard from protesters in Union Station as Vance can be seen walking in the distance with security. In other clips posted on X, protesters can be heard chanting: “From Washington to Palestine, occupation is a crime!” and “Free D.C.!”
Other chants directed at Vance were a bit more crude. One video captured by HuffPost’s Arthur Delaney showed Vance walking as someone yelled,“Go fuck a couch JD Vance!” — a reference to a made-up viral meme.
But Vance has been no stranger to this kind of protesting and heckling from the public. The vice president was booed while he vacationed with his family during a trip to Disneyland in July and he was met with hundreds of furious protesters holding up signs during a family vacation to Vermont in March. He also received fierce boos from a crowd at the Kennedy Center in D.C. that same month, while attending a concert with his wife, second lady Usha Vance.
