The protesters jeered Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller as they visited Union Station, blocks from the U.S. Capitol, to thank the troops at a Shake Shack where they bought lunch for the guard members.

The Trump administration has deployed an overwhelming show of force in the nation's capital in response to a supposed “crime emergency.”

As protesters chanted nearby, U.S. Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller visited National Guardsmen in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday.

Vice President JD Vance has been promoting President Donald Trump's new tax cuts and spending bill in swing-state Georgia.

Protesters heckled Vice President JD Vance and Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth as they walked through Union Station in Washington, D.C., to meet National Guard troops deployed under President Donald Trump’s emergency order.

JD Vance was booed during his visit to the National Guard in Washington on Wednesday. The National Guard has been deployed in the US capital for almost a week and a half. Protesters gathered on the sidelines of the visit by US Vice President and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth,

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.