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Yahoo
3 hours ago
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JD Vance's Disneyland souvenirs were nonstop heckling and an embarrassing new viral video
JD Vance was met with protests and criticism after his recent family trip to Disneyland, but it's a short video of him running in the park that really got the internet's attention. The vice president visited the park — run by a company he previously claimed "has declared war on America's children" and located in a state he and the rest of the Trump administration seem to openly despise — amidst ongoing turmoil across the United States that's seen Trump's crackdown on immigration gleefully rip families apart. There's been particular unrest in Los Angeles as of late, located just 30 miles from the so-called Happiest Place on Earth. This combination of facts led to impromptu protests as Vance arrived, and to multiple people confronting, heckling, and recording him and his family inside the park. — (@) "We support immigrants. We support America," Chair of the Nebraska Democratic Party, Jane Fleming, shouted at Vance as he walked by. "I thought California was violent?" — (@) "Reports of unexpected disruptions and delays were shared on social media by frustrated park-goers, while people both present and not chimed in with their annoyance at how out of touch and hypocritical the whole visit was." — (@) "JD Vance and MAGA think California is a degenerate and desolate wasteland. But he was at Disneyland and rode Tiana's Bayou Adventure and the Haunted Mansion today." — (@) "So JD Vance joins his boss in trashing California every chance he when he wants to vacation with his kids, JD heads to Anaheim's Disneyland, not Florida's Disney World... Just saying" — (@) "Tired: trashing California for political purposes. Wired: visiting & vacationing in California more than your home state this year" — (@) "They booed JD Vance at Disneyland. Imagine how hated you must be to get booed at the happiest place on earth." — (@) One of the videos taken of Vance during his trip showed him briefly running(?), which led to a whole new kind of "wtf" moment. — (@) "Whatever you do, don't make this video of JD Vance awkwardly running at Disneyland go viral." — (@) "Look, I refuse to run unless I'm being chased, but I can't stop laughing of this video of JD Vance at Disneyland." — (@) "We finally figured out who JD Vance looked like when running at Disneyland." — (@) "When JD Vance sees a single couch at Disneyland" — (@) "masculinity is so back" California governor Gavin Newsom had something to say about Vance's visit, too. "Hope you enjoy your family time, @JDVance," he wrote on X. "The families you're tearing apart certainly won't." The vice president's cold reply? "Had a great time, thanks." This article originally appeared on Pride: JD Vance's Disneyland souvenirs were nonstop heckling and an embarrassing new viral video Watching JD Vance's motorcade get ruthlessly roasted will recharge your soul JD Vance really wants you to know he's 'not gay' while LYING about transgender youth The internet can't stop mocking JD Vance for being the 'antichrist' after the Pope's death
Fox News
3 hours ago
- Politics
- Fox News
Bluesky liberals celebrate JD Vance being booed with his kids at Disneyland
Left-wing Bluesky accounts defended Vice President JD Vance's young children facing jeers and boos during their trip to Disneyland over the weekend. Vance was with his wife Usha and their children at the California amusement park where they faced cheers and boos from park attendees. Their trip also drew a large protest outside the Grand Californian Hotel and along Disney Way over the Trump administration's immigration policies. As news about people booing Vance and his family, including his children, spread on the social media site Bluesky, some users encouraged the jeers for the kids to learn that their dad "is a piece of s---." "People who feel bad for JD Vance's kids as family gets booed at Disneyland. I get it, but better those kids know now what their father is about. Other kids are watching their parents get shipped off to gulags," Mother Jones editor-in-chief Clara Jeffery wrote. She added, "Also, JD Vance knows he's going to be booed at Disneyland or the Kennedy Center or wherever. He doesn't have to go with his kids, probably wants the optics of his family being booed. "He uses his kids as human shields," former Ohio congressional candidate Shannon Freshour replied, linking to a story about Vance being confronted by pro-Ukrainian protesters while with his young daughter. "This is gonna sound snarky but if your dad is a piece of s--- it's better to realize it sooner rather than later," former HuffPost reporter Michael Hobbes wrote. University of Washington associate professor and astrophysicist Sarah Tuttle commented, "[I]t turns out finding out that JD vance is being booed in Downtown Disney is exactly the news I needed." "Also, unless those kids have burner accounts on bluesky, hearing ordinary people boo is literally the only way they will learn he's a piece of s---," author Elon Green wrote. The Vance's three children are 3, 5 and 8 years old. Fox News Digital reached out to Vance's team for comment. One of the more notable critics of Vance's Disneyland trip included California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who attacked Vance on X over the Trump administration's recent ICE raids in the state. "Hope you enjoy your family time, @JDVance. The families you're tearing apart certainly won't," Newsom wrote. The vice president responded by thanking Newsom for the well-wishes without addressing the governor's comment about families being separated. "Had a great time, thanks," Vance wrote back.
Fox News
4 hours ago
- Politics
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Newsom, Vance exchange jabs over immigration after VP's California vacation: 'Hope you enjoy your family time'
California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Vice President JD Vance traded barbs this weekend over the Trump administration's mass deportation policies after the vice president's vacation to Disneyland in the Golden State. Vance was spending time at the California amusement park with his wife Usha and their two children before Newsom, a Democrat, posted on social media that some migrant families cannot spend the same quality time together because of the administration's efforts to detain and remove migrants in the U.S. "Hope you enjoy your family time, @JDVance. The families you're tearing apart certainly won't," Newsom wrote on X. The vice president responded by thanking Newsom for the well-wishes without addressing the governor's comment about families being separated. "Had a great time, thanks," Vance wrote back. Demonstrators gathered in Anaheim to protest Vance and the administration's immigration agenda. Vance's visit came shortly after ICE raids on two farms in California, during which federal agents detained a few hundred suspected illegal immigrants, sparking protests against the immigration enforcement operation. One person was killed in the raids and others were critically injured. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Rodney Scott said 10 illegal migrant minors – including eight unaccompanied – were discovered at a farm in Camarillo and that it was under investigation for child labor violations. The operation at the farms came after weeks of anti-ICE protests in Southern California over raids targeting migrant workers at local businesses. In response to those protests that began last month, the administration deployed National Guard troops and Marines to Los Angeles, despite opposition from Newsom.
Yahoo
7 hours ago
- Entertainment
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"I Can't Stop Laughing": People Are Making Fun Of JD Vance After He Was Booed At Disneyland
Editor's Note: While we can't endorse what X has become, we can bring you the worthwhile moments that still exist there, curated and free of the surrounding chaos. Over the weekend, JD Vance visited Disneyland with his family. You know, the same guy who spent the past several months badmouthing California and supporting the presence of the National Guard following anti-ICE protests in LA. Related: Obviously, folks weren't pleased. Before his visit, people gathered in Anaheim to protest the vice president's trip amid ICE's ongoing impact to SoCal communities. According to The Independent, one sign read: "No family vacation while we deal with family separation." While inside the theme park, JD was reportedly booed and heckled. Additionally, you might remember that JD has spoken out against Disney before, tweeting in 2022 that the company "has declared war on America's children." Note: The article's thumbnail was blurred due to photo rights. So! The internet had a lot to say about all this: Related: 1. 2. Twitter: @JoJoFromJerz 3. Related: 4. 5. 6. Twitter: @janekleeb 7. Related: 8. Twitter: @ArtCandee 9. 10. NBC / Twitter: @MimsyYamaguchi finally: What do you think about all this? LMK in the comments below! Also in In the News: Also in In the News: Also in In the News:
CNN
7 hours ago
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Analysis: 4 big questions about Trump and Epstein
In 2021, JD Vance accused the government of hiding a Jeffrey Epstein 'client list' that the Trump-Vance administration now says doesn't exist. 'If you're a journalist and you're not asking questions about this case,' Vance said, 'you should be ashamed of yourself.' Today, there are arguably more questions than ever – thanks in large part to the bizarre handling of it by the same administration Vance now serves in. Despite hyping the 'Epstein files,' the Trump Justice Department now says Epstein indeed committed suicide, and there was no 'client list.' That doesn't mean there was some broad conspiracy involved. But the administration has done a great job seeding suspicion – particularly among its own base – that it's now part of the purported cover-up. So let's ask some of the kinds of questions that Vance argued were so important four years ago. Trump's strategy for dealing with the backlash basically amounts to: Move along, everyone. 'Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein!?' Trump said last week. The president added in a social media post Sunday: 'Let's … not waste Time and Energy on Jeffrey Epstein, somebody that nobody cares about.' FBI Director Kash Patel echoed that line over the weekend, posting on X: 'The conspiracy theories just aren't true, never have been.' But it would certainly seem to be news to many people around Trump that nobody cares about this and the conspiracy theories are baseless. Trump's team is stocked with people, including Patel, who previously cast the Epstein saga as a massive scandal-in-waiting that just needed some leaders willing to rip the lid off of it. Back in February, for example, Attorney General Pam Bondi, hyped soon-to-be-released documents and suggested she had the so-called client list on her desk when asked about it in an interview. (She has since suggested she was referring to other documents.) 'What possible interest would the U.S. government have in keeping Epstein's clients secret? Oh…' Vance posted suggestively back in 2021. 'Put on your big boy pants and let us know who the pedophiles are,' Patel said in 2023. 'Listen, that Jeffrey Epstein story is a big deal,' now-Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino said the same year. 'Please do not let that story go. Keep your eye on this.' 'Who's on those tapes?' Bongino added in February shortly before joining the administration. 'Who's in those black books? Why have they been hiding it?' So to recap: The people most directly in charge of this matter – and now insisting there's no there there – are also the people who assured there was plenty to discover and suggested that things were being covered up. So the question becomes: Are they admitting they were just wrong then? (They don't seem to want to say that. But perhaps tellingly, Bongino told Fox News last month: 'I'm not paid for my opinions anymore. I work for the taxpayer now. I'm paid on evidence.') And why is something they argued was of the utmost importance now not worth our time? This is a supposed scandal involving powerful people involved in sex-trafficking of minors, after all. How do they square Trump's comments now with their own past comments? And shouldn't they at least do more to put it to bed? To be clear, this is not the same as asking whether the files show any wrongdoing by Trump. But it is worth asking if he's in there – particularly given his administration's failure to live up to its promises of disclosure. Trump associated with Epstein, after all, before the two had a falling out. Epstein claimed they had been close. Trump once called Epstein a 'terrific guy' and quipped about Epstein's affinity for younger women. Trump also weirdly wished Ghislaine Maxwell well on more than one occasion while she faced Epstein-related sex-trafficking charges. 'I'm not looking for anything bad for her,' Trump said at the time. 'I'm not looking bad for anybody.' Elon Musk, as part of his dramatic falling out with the president, claimed last month that Trump was indeed in the files. 'Time to drop the really big bomb: (Donald Trump) is in the Epstein files,' Musk wrote on X. 'That is the real reason they have not been made public.' Musk never detailed how he would have gained access to unreleased files, later deleting the post and expressing regret for how far he had gone in some of his anti-Trump posts. Many dismissed it as Musk lashing out, but this was a former top Trump adviser who had lots of access while heading the Department of Government Efficiency. Did he just make it up? Musk hasn't said that specifically. It's also a question that's apparently real enough that Trump's own lawyer assured he checked on it. Last week, David Schoen, who has represented both Trump and Epstein, said he asked Epstein shortly before his death whether he had information to hurt Trump, and Epstein said he did not. 'I specifically asked that!' Schoen posted on X. Trump has also been less keen than others around him to release the documents. During a Fox News interview last year, he quickly agreed he would declassify documents on 9/11 and John F. Kennedy's assassination, but he paused before saying he would do the same with the Epstein documents. He explained that 'you don't want to affect people's lives if it's phony stuff in there.' Asked later by podcast host Lex Fridman why he hesitated, Trump repeatedly said he had not personally gone to Epstein's island. 'I don't think – I'm not involved,' Trump said. 'I never went to his island, fortunately, but a lot of people did.' The big news last week was that the administration said Epstein did kill himself and that there was no client list. But it wasn't the only reason the true-believers were disappointed. The administration also effectively closed the matter and said it wouldn't release anything else, despite having promised plenty more disclosures. The administration made a show of releasing an initial batch of documents back in February. But the photo op with conservative influencers bombed when it turned out the documents were largely old news. So the administration promised more was on the way. 'We will get everything,' Bondi told Fox News in early March. 'We will have it in our possession. We will redact it, of course, to protect grand jury information and confidential witnesses, but American people have a right to know.' White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt added in May: 'I know the Attorney General has committed to releasing those files. … When she has made a promise in the past, she has kept it and I'm certain that she will, in this case, as well.' But the administration hasn't released anything of real significance since then. Last week's Justice Department memo said that much of this information was 'subject to court-ordered sealing' and that 'only a fraction of this material would have been aired publicly had Epstein gone to trial.' It expressed a desire to 'not expose any additional third-parties to allegations of illegal wrongdoing.' 'Through this review, we found no basis to revisit the disclosure of those materials,' the memo said. That's very different than what was promised. But why the change in tune? Why didn't they say before that their promises of disclosure were subject to so many caveats? When Bondi sought to explain herself last week, this was one question that she for some reason let linger: whether Epstein had ties to intelligence. 'To him being an agent, I have no knowledge about that,' the attorney general told reporters, before adding: 'We can get back to you on that.' Why is this something they have to circle back on? Wouldn't this either be something that's in the documents or not? This theory doesn't come out of nowhere. Such questions have been asked for a long time. Then-Trump Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta, who had entered into a controversial non-prosecution agreement with Epstein while serving as a US attorney, talked around the question when it was posed to him in 2019. (Acosta resigned as labor secretary shortly after Epstein's federal indictment was unsealed.) Bongino said back in 2023 that he was reliably told Epstein was an intelligence asset for a Middle Eastern country. And on Monday, former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett saw fit to deny Epstein was an Israeli asset. 'The accusation that Jeffrey Epstein somehow worked for Israel or the Mossad running a blackmail ring is categorically and totally false,' Bennett said. Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah has pressed the case that Epstein might have benefitted from being an asset. It's seemingly a question Bondi should have more of an answer for. But the lack of satisfactory answers seems to be a trend right now.
