Vice President JD Vance says National Guard troops are making substantial progress tackling crime in Washington, D.C., and suggests their mission may extend beyond 30 days.

An estimated 1,900 troops are being deployed in D.C. with more than half are coming from GOP-led states responding to the Trump admin.

The VP dismissed the demonstrators as ‘old, primarily white people’ who have ‘never felt danger in their entire lives.’

Onlookers jeered and heckled anti-LGBTQ+ Vice President J.D. Vance while he entered D.C.’s main transportation hub, Union Station, on Wednesday to greet National Guard troops. A video shows hecklers calling Vance a “couch f**ker” and telling him to “Go f**k a couch,” a reference to an untrue viral claim from 2024.

There’s apparently a bromance brewing in the Capitol, and it involves JD Vance. “I mean, I have a lot of good friends,” Vance said. “The weird thing is, you say it’s one person and then fundamentally that’s an insult to other people.

Vice President JD Vance casually revealed Thursday that the White House “hopes” that cities across the country will follow the capital’s lead—that is to say, hand over the reins of their local law enforcement and welcome the National Guard into their city limits.