JD Vance booed the National Guard troops during the Hamburger Handout | JD Vance

JD Vance Booed and hecked by the hymn of “Free DC!”. In a photo with the National Guard at Washington Union Station Wednesday afternoon.

Distributed hamburgers to deployed forces last week Donald Trumpon the shaking shed at the station, the Minister of Defense Pete HegsethDeputy White House Commissioner Stephen Miller said Vance told the soldiers “we thank you for everything you did” and asserted: “We brought some laws and orders.” Meanwhile, a group of protesters protested outside.

The crowd shouted slogans such as “Free DC!”. and “from DC to Palestineoccupation is a crime. “When the three men walked into Union Station and gathered in the restaurant, some also shouted, and they continued when they tried to talk to the reporter and eventually left.

When asked why the troops were at the station rather than at the higher crime rate in the urban parts of the city, Vance claimed it was overwhelmed by “homemen, drug users, chronic homeless people and mentally ill people” while tourists felt unsafe. “This should be a great monument to America,” he said, adding later: “We don’t have to live like this.”

“It’s a little strange that we have a group of old, mostly white people who are there protesting policies that people never felt dangerous in their lives to keep people safe,” Vance said of the protest.

He added that the hymns of protesters were given out, adding: “Let us be free Washington, DCso that young families can walk around and feel safe. That’s why we’re trying to release DC from it. ”

Miller agrees with his point, who devalues those “crazy communists” who gathered in the protests. “We will ignore these stupid white hippies, all of which need to go home and take a nap because they’ve been 90 years and we’re going to be back in the business of protecting the American people and citizens of Washington, D.C.,” he said.

Last week, the presidential federal government brought the Met Police Department federal government and directed Heggs to mobilize the National Guard forces, Claims that he is suppressing Despite the sharp drop in crime, the violent crime rate has dropped sharply At a 30-year low.

An estimated 1,900 troops were deployed in DC. More than half of them come from Republican-led states, including Louisiana and South Carolina. In addition to the United Station, the troops were found mainly in urban areas (including the National Shopping Center and Metro Station).