Vice President JD Vance called a brown man at his rally an “illegal immigrant” because he interrupted his rally to demand the release of the Epstein files.
“[The] corrupt, far-left cartel has subjected this country—” Vance was saying at his North Carolina rally, before the protester stood up directly behind him.
“God bless our children!” the man in the crowd yelled. “Release the Epstein files!”
Chants of “USA” began to drown him out as he was removed from the rally by security.
“Ladies and gentlemen, I’m gonna have to amend something I said earlier. I said that we have had zero illegal border crossings in the United States of America,” Vance said with a smile, implying that the protester was not a U.S. citizen. “But one isn’t bad, right?”
wow -- a protester directly behind Vance gets up and yells "release the Epstein files!" Vance suggest he's an illegal immigrant. https://t.co/VdptgKoIIl
Vance’s response was lambasted by those to his left, as many saw his response to another call to release the Epstein files—something Trump himself campaigned on—as contradictory.
“They’re kicking people out of Republican rallies for shouting the same things they’ve been shouting at Republican rallies for years,” Puerto Rican journalist Benjamín Torres Gotaywrote on X.
“It’s insulting to suggest only ‘illegal immigrants’ care about justice for victims and accountability for perpetrators,” California Governor Gavin Newsom’s press officeposted. “Most American citizens do too!”
The Trump administration promised its supporters a full release of the Epstein files that would expose the “deep state” and bring justice to survivors. Instead it has continued to obscure information and avoid transparency, with Attorney General Todd Blanche refusing to seriouslymeetwith survivors, survivors gettingkicked outof the GOP midterm convention, and now Vance’s assumption that a nonwhite individual calling for justice must be some kind of illegal alien.
President Trump now wants New Mexico to change its name to something that doesn’t offend him.
Just like with the Gulf of Mexico, Trump wants the state to be called “New America” instead, he wrote in a Truth Socialposton Monday.
“New Mexico should immediately change its name to New America. We are not Mexico, we are the United States of America! The name would add great value and prestige to the State! Home Values and Incomes would rise, and you would be even prouder while saluting our beautiful American Flag! Maybe even the Crooked Elections, that New Mexico is known for, would become honest again! President DONALD J. TRUMP,” the president ranted.
Trump’s attacks on New Mexico are almost certainly because the state hasvotedDemocratic in eight of the last nine presidential elections and has always voted against him. Its entire congressionaldelegationis Democratic, as well as all of its statewideelected officials. Democrats also control both houses of its statelegislature.
But aside from Trump’s normal attacks on Democrats, he has fixated on unilaterally changing place names in his second term, possibly out ofcognitive decline. He’s signed executive orders to change the Gulf of Mexico to theGulf of America, and Lake Ontario toLake America. His latest renaming is “artificial intelligence” to “super intelligence,” which isn’t sticking even in his ownCabinet.
