The US vice president, JD Vance, had to deviate on the way to his winter vacation during the weekend after the Pro-Ukraine protesters aligned in the streets of a city of Vermont on the road to where he and his family planned to go skiing.
While passing through Waitsfield, VT, the vice president met with meeting stores that vocalized his support for Ukraine.
He arrived a day after an explosive exchange in the Oval office between President Trump, Vance and President Zelenskyy, where Trump told the Ukrainian leader that he was “playing with World War II”, effectively ending 80 years of decorum and diplomacy between Europe and the United States.
The Vance family was heading to Sugarbush Resort in Warren, VT, on Saturday, but was redirected through an unleashed place due to protests.
Assistants They were seen holding signs that they said “Vance is a traitor, going to ski in Russia” and “I am with Ukraine.” They joined war activists who stirred Palestinian flags and sang slogans in support of immigrant rights.
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The protesters were parked in multiple locations in the area, including both sides of Route 100 on Waitsfield.
Vermonters protests the JD Vance's ski journey on March 1, after a heated meeting of the Oval office with Trump and Zelenskyy on Friday.
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The demonstrations were planned before Friday's historical meeting by the basic base herbal organization Indivisible Mad River ValleyBut he won impulse later.
During the heated Friday exchange, Vance rebuked Zelenskyy for refuting Trump's suggestion that Putin was a reliable counterpart. Both he and the president discouraged with Zelenskyy's outfit, criticizing him for not using a suit, spoke repeatedly and accused of being ungrateful and disrespectful with the United States.
“I think it is disrespectful to enter the oval office and try to litigate this in front of the US media,” Vance told Zelenskyy.
A day later, Vermont's protester, Tekla Van Hoven from Waterbury, told Outlet of local news WCAX TV That the vice president should “ski Russia because JD Vance has no friends in Vermont, but he has many friends in Russia, so he should go there for vacations.”
The protesters in Waitsfield, VT join against the arrival of JD Vance and his family when they passed through the area on their way to a ski journey.
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The organizers of the demonstration said about a dozen counterprotters were present to welcome Vance.
“We wanted to give a positive welcome concentration of support to Vermonters and the process and things that he and President Trump are doing for our great country,” Gregory Thayer told local journalists.
Despite the detour, Vance and his family hit the slopes on Saturday, calling the attention of other skiers.
“It's amazing. I hope to see it. I heard that his children are at the ski school, ”Susan Green told Wcax-TV.
“I think it's totally well. If JD Vance wants to ski anywhere he wants, that's great. Come Vermont. But people have a right, a right of the first amendment to the free assembly, freedom of expression, ”said Paula Emery of Plainfield.
Before Vance's visit to Vermont and before the now infamous meeting of the Oval Office, the State Republican governor, Phil Scott, who has Openly admitted not vote for TrumpHe issued a statement Welcome to Vance, his wife and two children.
“I welcome the vice president and his family to Vermont and I hope you enjoy their weekend here … I hope Vermonters remember that the vice president is here on a family trip with his young children and, although we do not always agree, we must be respectful. Unique me to welcome them to Vermont and with the hope that they have the opportunity to experience what makes our state and vermino, so special.
The demonstrations broke out in the United States on Saturday, even in Bostonand Los Angeles In solidarity with Ukraine.
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