Actress Sydney Sweeney is making her first public comments following the significant backlash to her viral American Eagle ad campaign.
The 28-year-old celebrity discussed the drama during a newly published <a href="https://www.gq.com/story/sydney-sweeney-gq-cover-story-interview-men-of-the-year-2025">interview</a> with GQ. When asked by the interviewer what it was like when President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance weighed in on the campaign, Sweeney gave a one-word answer: “Surreal.”
She also said not to believe the lies being circulated about American Eagle losing business because of it. 
“I was aware of the numbers as it was going. So when I saw all the headlines of in-store visits were down a certain percentage, none of it was true,” she told GQ. “It was all made up, but nobody could say anything because [the company was] in their quiet period. So it was all just a lot of talk. And because I knew at the end of the day what that ad was for, and it was great jeans, it didn’t affect me one way or the other.”
Sweeney deflected when asked if “there [is] something that you want to say about the ad itself” because “the criticism of the content was basically that, maybe specifically in this political climate, white people shouldn’t joke about genetic superiority.”
“I think that when I have an issue that I want to speak about, people will hear,” the actress said. She also said she put her phone away and stayed busy with filming the entire time she was making headlines for appearing in the ad.
“I didn’t really see a lot of it,” Sweeney said of the critical comments.
Controversy erupted over the summer over an ad spot featuring Sweeney in various seductive poses while saying she had “good jeans.” The double entendre with the word “genes” made leftists deem the ad racist, noting that Sweeney is white with blond hair and blue eyes.
In one of the ads, Sweeney says, “Genes are passed down from parents to offspring, often determining traits like hair color, personality, and even eye color. My jeans are blue.”
American Eagle responded to the backlash by issuing a simple statement: “&#8217;Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans’ is and always was about the jeans. Her jeans. Her story. We’ll continue to celebrate how everyone wears their AE jeans with confidence, their way. Great jeans look good on everyone.”
Trump’s response to the ad campaign was positive after the president discovered that Sweeney was a registered Republican. 
“She’s a registered Republican?” Trump confirmed with a reporter in August, as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-delighted-to-learn-sydney-sweeney-is-a-republican-now-i-love-her-ad">reported</a>. “Oh, now I love her ad. Is that right? Is Sydney Sweeney? Yes. You’d be surprised at how many people are Republicans. That’s what I wouldn’t have known. But I’m glad you told me that. If Sydney Sweeney is a registered Republican, I think her ad is fantastic.”
Vance also weighed in on the controversy during an appearance on the &#8220;Ruthless&#8221; podcast.
&#8220;My political advice to the Democrats is: continue to tell everybody who thinks Sydney Sweeney is attractive is a Nazi,&#8221; Vance quipped.
&#8220;You have like a normal all-American, beautiful girl doing like a normal jeans ad, right? They’re trying to sell… jeans to kids in America and they have managed to so unhinge themselves over this thing. It’s like, you guys, did you learn nothing from the November 2024 election?&#8221;

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Vice President JD Vance spoke about Trump administration policy, his approach to politics, his faith and family life, and more while taking questions at a Turning Point USA event at the University of Mississippi on Wednesday evening.
Vance appeared at the event at the request of Erika Kirk, the widow of late Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated last month at a college event in Utah. The vice president delivered brief remarks before taking questions in front of hundreds of students who packed the auditorium to see Erika and the vice president speak.
Here are some of the highlights from the vice president’s appearance.
One student, a supporter of the Trump administration, worried that the administration was accruing power and setting precedents that would later be used against conservatives.
The vice president responded that, while the question is fair, he is unconcerned about precedents set for a potential Democratic successor to take advantage of. He suggested that Democratic efforts to have the FBI and other law enforcement investigate President Donald Trump and other Republicans show that Democrats are unlikely to respect norms in any case.
“We cannot be afraid to do something because the Left might do it in the future. The Left is already going to do it regardless of whether we do it,” said Vance. “That is the takeaway of the last 40 years.”
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VP Vance on the potential for the radical left to misuse power:
“We cannot be afraid to do something because the left might do it in the future. The left is already going to do it regardless of whether we do it. That is the takeaway of the last 40 years.” <a href="https://t.co/qWBXPxAj2G">pic.twitter.com/qWBXPxAj2G</a>
— Vice President JD Vance (@VP) <a href="https://twitter.com/VP/status/1983704850664976519?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 30, 2025</a></blockquote>
Vance is in an interfaith marriage; he is Catholic, and his wife, Usha, is non-religious from a Hindu household. On his Christian faith and raising children, Vance said that one of the most important practices in his marriage is communication.
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“As I’ve told her and I’ve said publicly and I’ll say now in front of 10,000 of my closest friends, do I hope eventually that she is somehow moved by the same thing that I was moved by in church? Yeah, I honestly do wish that, because I believe in the Christian gospel and I honestly hope that my wife comes to see it the same way,” said Vance.
Vance also delivered a defense of Christianity and its values, citing a verse from Matthew.
“One of my favorite Bible verses is ‘by your fruits, ye shall know them.’ And I think that the fruits of the Christian faith are the most moral, the most just, and the most prosperous civilization in history,” said Vance. “I make no apologies for believing that Christianity is the pathway to God. I make no apologies for thinking that Christian values are an important foundation of this country, but I’m not going to force you to believe anything because that is not what God wants, and that is not what I want, either.”
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🚨 NOW &#8211; JD VANCE: We&#8217;ve taken Christian values for granted. Treating everyone equal is a Christian concept. Great Britain, a Christian empire, abolished slavery. Eliminating child sacrifice &#8211; what did the Christian settlers do in the New World? They found civilizations m*rdering… <a href="https://t.co/mqQfMlbu3i">pic.twitter.com/mqQfMlbu3i</a>
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) <a href="https://twitter.com/EricLDaugh/status/1983695270320783432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 30, 2025</a></blockquote>
On immigration, Vance was asked by a student who is dating an immigrant in the United States on a visa about his overall approach. The vice president said that, in his view, while there are immigrants who enrich the United States, the country has far too many immigrants now and admits too many each year.
“There are people who want to come to the United States of America, and some of them, I am sure, can enrich the United States of America by coming here, but we have got to get our overall numbers way, way down,” he said.
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Vice President Vance gets asked about his stance on immigration by a student who&#8217;s in a relationship with a girl here on a Visa with hopes of getting a Green Card:
&#8220;We have let in too many immigrants into the United States of America. That is just a fundamental reality.&#8221;
&#8220;I… <a href="https://t.co/2bB6idrXhQ">pic.twitter.com/2bB6idrXhQ</a>
— Andrew Kolvet (@AndrewKolvet) <a href="https://twitter.com/AndrewKolvet/status/1983696133483335774?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 30, 2025</a></blockquote>
At another moment, Vance said that immigration levels should be significantly reduced until the foreign-born citizens and legal residents in the United States have assimilated.
“We have got to become a common community again. And you can&#8217;t do that when you have such high numbers of immigration,” said Vance.
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VP Vance on immigration policies:
“We have got to become a common community again. And you can&#8217;t do that when you have such high numbers of immigration, which is one of the reasons why we have the immigration policy we do.” <a href="https://t.co/mRuFWWcynq">pic.twitter.com/mRuFWWcynq</a>
— Vice President JD Vance (@VP) <a href="https://twitter.com/VP/status/1983699277693304993?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 30, 2025</a></blockquote>
The crowd was overwhelmingly pro-Vance. As the vice president finished his prepared remarks and prepared to take questions, the crowd broke out in a chant for “48.”
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🚨 WOW! THOUSANDS of students at Ole Miss just started chanting “48! 48!” when VP Vance finished his speech at the TPUSA event
Yes! 48! 🇺🇸 <a href="https://t.co/DxJVoMlewv">pic.twitter.com/DxJVoMlewv</a>
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) <a href="https://twitter.com/nicksortor/status/1983691701253500948?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 30, 2025</a></blockquote>

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Turning Point USA CEO Erika Kirk told a crowd of students at the University of Mississippi on Wednesday that her late husband Charlie learned how to have courage by starting his day with three simple questions.
Kirk spoke to hundreds of students at Ole Miss at a TPUSA university rally just seven weeks after her husband’s assassination at an event in Utah. Kirk spoke ahead of Vice President JD Vance, who had agreed to participate in the Turning Point USA event at Kirk&#8217;s request.
Kirk said her husband, who led Turning Point USA until his death, started his days with a routine that made him think about his purpose and serving others.
First, Charlie would wake up and see a phrase that his wife had hung on his side of their bedroom. The sign read: “They will be known by the boldness of their faith.” Kirk said she never appreciated the strength of the phrase until she was able to sleep in their bedroom again for the first time since Charlie’s murder.
When Charlie made it into his office, he asked himself three questions every morning that set the tone for the rest of his day.
“What is something I can do for someone today? The second was: what is something I can do to add value to the world today? And the third was: how can I honor God today?” Kirk told the crowd. “Those were the three questions combined with the words he saw every single morning. So to me, seeing that, seeing on his desk, that was him suited up with the armor of the Lord every day.”
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“What I’m realizing with that is those were the action points of how to have courage, because you can ask me, ‘well, how do I become courageous?’ Ask yourself those three questions every single day, and I promise you, you will get courage,” she said. “You will because what death amplifies even more is that you only get one life … [and] I want to remind you that God has created you for greatness.”
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Erika Kirk Tells Ole Miss Students The Secret To Having Courage Like Charlie

Five Senate Republicans joined with Democrats on Tuesday in a vote denouncing President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Brazil.
Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul of Kentucky, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and Thom Tillis of North Carolina sided with Senate Democrats in a 52 to 48 vote against the president’s trade policy, exposing a small rift in the GOP between the president and some lawmakers.
“Protectionists eagerly celebrate the revenue from tariff duties. But they don’t talk nearly as much about how much of that revenue they’ll spend protecting American growers and producers from the avoidable harm of their policies,” McConnell said in a <a href="https://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=D1763366-63E6-4404-8FDD-B932A4691CB7">statement</a> defending his vote.
“Tariffs make both building and buying in America more expensive. The economic harms of trade wars are not the exception to history, but the rule. And no cross-eyed reading of Reagan will reveal otherwise,” he continued, referencing the late President Ronald Reagan, whose support for free trade became news recently because of an anti-tariff advertisement <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-sets-10-hike-in-tariffs-on-canada-after-fake-ad-that-aired-during-world-series">purchased</a> by the Ontario government.
The Senate’s Tuesday resolution against Trump’s Brazil tariffs is symbolic, and it is not expected to receive a vote – much less pass – in the House. Additional resolutions on Trump’s tariffs are expected to receive votes in the Senate this week.
Vice President JD Vance warned Republicans ahead of the vote not to side against the president in the symbolic gesture, calling a move to buck to White House on tariffs a “big mistake,” according to <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/senate/3867090/senate-rebukes-trump-tariff-vote-jd-vance-warning/">The Washington Examiner</a>.
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“The point that I made to my Republican colleagues, recognizing there’s a diversity of opinions about it, is that the tariffs give us the ability to put American workers first,” said Vance after meeting with GOP senators on Tuesday. “They force American industry to reinvest in the United States of America instead of a foreign country.”
Prior to Trump’s trade wars, U.S. tariffs on Brazil were roughly 3% in line with its status as a Most Favored Nation for U.S. trade. Brazil’s tariffs on U.S. goods were higher at around 11%, according to the <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/regulating-imports-with-a-reciprocal-tariff-to-rectify-trade-practices-that-contribute-to-large-and-persistent-annual-united-states-goods-trade-deficits/">White House</a>.
In April, Trump unveiled sweeping tariffs, placing a minimum 10% levy on all nations, with some receiving a much higher tariff. In July, Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114825119138468153">threatened</a> to hike tariffs on goods from Brazil up to 50% because of its treatment of former President Jair Bolsonaro, who was sentenced to 27 years in prison after Brazil’s left-wing government accused him of attempting to overthrow democracy.
Since coming into office in January, Trump has aggressively sought to remake the world’s trade lines, levying relatively exorbitant tariffs on enemies and allies. Through unilateral action on tariffs, Trump has sought to eliminate U.S. trade deficits and to establish leverage for action on drug trafficking and ending international conflicts.
Trump has cited emergency authority under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to issue most of his tariffs. The president’s tariff authority under the act is currently under <a href="https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/10/small-businesses-and-states-urge-court-to-strike-down-trumps-tariffs/">review</a> at the Supreme Court.
The president has <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/trumps-dramatic-rhetoric-tariffs-ramps-pressure-supreme-court-rcna238207">said</a> if his administration loses the case, the United States “will be a weakened, troubled, financial mess for many, many years to come.”

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Vice President JD Vance tamped down concerns about renewed warfare in Gaza on Tuesday after an attack on Israel Defense Forces in the Israeli-controlled territory of the enclave.
The IDF reported that Hamas had launched an attack on Israeli forces behind the so-called “yellow line,” or the line behind which Israel agreed to station its troops as part of a ceasefire with Hamas earlier this month. The attack, which was a breach of the ceasefire agreement, reportedly <a href="https://x.com/AmitSegal/status/1983287827199865230">killed</a> one Israeli soldier.
Vance said during a visit to Capitol Hill on Tuesday that the ceasefire will hold despite the violent flare up.
“The president achieved a historic peace in the Middle East, the ceasefire is holding. That doesn’t mean that there aren’t going to be little skirmishes here and there,” said Vance. “We know that Hamas, or somebody else within Gaza, attacked an IDF soldier. We expect the Israelis are going to respond, but I think the president’s peace is going to hold despite it.”
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JD Vance on Hamas Ceasefire Violation: &#8220;The ceasefire is holding. That doesn&#8217;t mean that there aren&#8217;t going to be little skirmishes.&#8221;
&#8220;We know that Hamas or somebody else within Gaza attacked an IDF soldier. We expect the Israelis are going to respond but I think the… <a href="https://t.co/rhV9HB0CzO">pic.twitter.com/rhV9HB0CzO</a>
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) <a href="https://twitter.com/Osint613/status/1983265200271741111?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced airstrikes on Gaza shortly after the attack in retaliation.
“Following security consultations, Prime Minister Netanyahu has directed the military to immediately carry out forceful strikes in the Gaza Strip,” an <a href="https://www.gov.il/en/pages/spoke-pm281025">announcement</a> from the prime minister’s office read.
Hospitals in Gaza reported that at least 20 people were killed in the Israeli airstrikes on Tuesday. It is unclear how reliable the numbers are after Hamas&#8217; data on the war has repeatedly been <a href="https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2024/04/09/hamas-run-gaza-health-ministry-admits-to-flaws-in-casualty-data/">found</a> to be flawed.
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The violence came after an earlier ceasefire violation from Hamas in which the terror group buried the remains of an Israeli hostage before calling the Red Cross to come and “discover” the body. Israel released drone <a href="https://x.com/AmitSegal/status/1983154969026146642">footage</a> capturing Hamas terrorists hiding the hostage remains. The footage appears to show members of the Red Cross standing by as dirt is dumped over a white sheet.
The IDF said in a statement that the terror group is “is attempting to create a false impression of efforts to locate the bodies,” according to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/28/middleeast/israel-military-strikes-gaza-latam-intl">CNN</a>.
The Red Cross also denounced the act in a statement: “It is unacceptable that a fake recovery was staged, when so much depends on this agreement being upheld and when so many families are still anxiously awaiting news of their loved ones.”

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Vice President JD Vance on Thursday visited the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, an ancient church in Jerusalem believed to be the site of both the crucifixion and tomb of Jesus Christ, and one of the holiest Christian sites in the world.
&#8220;What an amazing blessing to have visited the site of Christ&#8217;s death and resurrection,&#8221; the vice president said after his visit. &#8220;I am immensely grateful to the Greek, Armenian, and Catholic priests who care for this most sacred of places. May the Prince of Peace have mercy on us, and bless our efforts for peace.&#8221;
Vance, who is Catholic, spent about 90 minutes inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, where he went to confession and attended a private mass.
<div id="attachment_990279" style="width: 394px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jd-vance-visits-the-site-of-jesus-christs-death-and-burial-in-jerusalem/g38xmdhwcaaczq2" rel="attachment wp-att-990279"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-990279" class="wp-image-990279 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/G38xMdHWcAACZq2-384x576.jpeg" alt="Vice President JD Vance and Second Lady Usha Vance tour the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, Thursday, October 23, 2025. (Official White House Photo by Emily J. Higgins.)" width="384" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/G38xMdHWcAACZq2-384x576.jpeg 384w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/G38xMdHWcAACZq2-200x300.jpeg 200w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/G38xMdHWcAACZq2-768x1151.jpeg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/G38xMdHWcAACZq2-1025x1536.jpeg 1025w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/G38xMdHWcAACZq2-1360x2040.jpeg 1360w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/G38xMdHWcAACZq2.jpeg 1366w" sizes=" (max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px" /></a>Vice President JD Vance and Second Lady Usha Vance tour the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, Thursday, October 23, 2025. (Official White House Photo by Emily J. Higgins.)</div>
The church not only holds the &#8220;Tomb of Christ,&#8221; which pilgrims venerate as the site of Jesus Christ&#8217;s burial and resurrection, but also &#8220;Golgatha&#8221; or Calvary, the site of the crucifixion, which pilgrims can climb to via a tall stairwell, the &#8220;Stone of the Anointing,&#8221; where Jesus Christ&#8217;s body is believed to have been prepared for burial, the &#8220;Prison of Christ,&#8221; where Jesus Christ is believed to have been held before he was crucified, the &#8220;Chapel of Adam,&#8221; below Golgatha, believed to be the location where the skull of Adam, documented in the Bible as the father of the human race, was buried.
Constantine the Great <a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Holy-Sepulchre">originally built a church on that site</a>, which was dedicated about 336 AD, then burned by the Persians in the year 614 AD, restored by an abbot, destroyed again by an Islamic caliph around 1009, restored by a Byzantine emperor, further rebuilt by Crusaders in the 12th century, and preserved throughout the years until now. The current structure of the church is mostly<a href="https://holysepulchre.com/history"> dated to 1810.</a>
<div id="attachment_990273" style="width: 874px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jd-vance-visits-the-site-of-jesus-christs-death-and-burial-in-jerusalem/v20251023eh-0961" rel="attachment wp-att-990273"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-990273" class="wp-image-990273 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/V20251023EH-0961-864x576.jpg" alt="Vice President JD Vance and Second Lady Usha Vance tourChurch of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, Thursday, October 23, 2025. (Official White House Photo by Emily J. Higgins.)" width="864" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/V20251023EH-0961-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/V20251023EH-0961-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/V20251023EH-0961-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/V20251023EH-0961-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/V20251023EH-0961-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/V20251023EH-0961-1800x1200.jpg 1800w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/V20251023EH-0961-1200x800.jpg 1200w" sizes=" (max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px" /></a>Vice President JD Vance and Second Lady Usha Vance tour the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, Thursday, October 23, 2025. (Official White House Photo by Emily J. Higgins.)</div>
Vance and his wife visited all the main sites inside the church, according to the vice president&#8217;s print pooler, beginning with the Stone of the Anointing, where a bishop laid out a red pillow for the vice president to kneel on. Vance knelt on the pillow, made the sign of the cross, bowed his head, put his hand on the slab, and prayed. His wife watched as her husband venerated the stone, where the body of Jesus Christ is believed to have been laid out as he was prepared for burial.
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📸 Vice President ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/JDVance?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JDVance</a>⁩ exits the Chapel of the Angel in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre <a href="https://t.co/H0wOerkCBa">pic.twitter.com/H0wOerkCBa</a>
— Luke Schroeder (@Luke__Schroeder) <a href="https://twitter.com/Luke__Schroeder/status/1981362288557719723?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 23, 2025</a></blockquote>
When the Vances went up to Calvary, they each lit a candle. They also lit candles downstairs in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, using a flame that is reportedly transferred by candle from Jesus Christ&#8217;s tomb to that spot every day, meaning that the flame on their candles had been within the tomb.
A bishop who spoke with Vance&#8217;s press pooler, Francesca Chambers of USA Today, shared that he was lighting two white candles from the flame that he intended to send back to the White House. That bishop was the superior of the Armenian side of the church.
&#8220;We are sending these lights to the White House,&#8221; the bishop told Chambers. &#8220;May God bless America, the United States and Armenia and our friendship.&#8221;
<div id="attachment_990275" style="width: 874px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jd-vance-visits-the-site-of-jesus-christs-death-and-burial-in-jerusalem/v20251023eh-0297" rel="attachment wp-att-990275"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-990275" class="wp-image-990275 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/V20251023EH-0297-864x576.jpg" alt="Vice President JD Vance and Second Lady Usha Vance tourChurch of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, Thursday, October 23, 2025. (Official White House Photo by Emily J. Higgins.)" width="864" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/V20251023EH-0297-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/V20251023EH-0297-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/V20251023EH-0297-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/V20251023EH-0297-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/V20251023EH-0297-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/V20251023EH-0297-1800x1200.jpg 1800w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/V20251023EH-0297-1200x800.jpg 1200w" sizes=" (max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px" /></a>Vice President JD Vance and Second Lady Usha Vance tour the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, Thursday, October 23, 2025. (Official White House Photo by Emily J. Higgins.)</div>
Photos of the visit show Vance standing at the Calvary altar in apparent contemplation, lighting a candle, and speaking with the clergy who were guiding him throughout the Christian site.
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Vance is now on his way back to the United States after his visit to Israel, where he slammed a vote in the Israeli Knesset on the annexation of the West Bank.
“The policy of the Trump administration is that the West Bank will not be annexed by Israel. That will continue to be our policy,” Vance said before he boarded Air Force Two to return home. “And if people want to take symbolic votes, they can do that. But we certainly weren’t happy about it.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu&#8217;s office said in a statement that &#8220;the Knesset vote on annexation was a deliberate political provocation by the opposition to sow discord during Vice President JD Vance’s visit to Israel.&#8221;
&#8220;The two bills were sponsored by opposition members of the Knesset,&#8221; Netanyahu&#8217;s office said on Thursday. &#8220;The Likud party and the religious parties (the principal coalition members) did not vote for these bills, except for one disgruntled Likud member who was recently fired from the chairmanship of a Knesset committee. Without Likud support these bills are unlikely to go anywhere.&#8221;

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JD Vance Visits The Site Of Jesus Christ’s Death And Burial In Jerusalem

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Former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, who served during the Biden administration, is being called out for recent comments she made about Vice President JD Vance’s wife, Usha.
Psaki made the remarks on a newly released episode of the &#8220;I&#8217;ve Had It&#8221; podcast.
She said Vance is “scarier” than President Donald Trump and alluded to the idea of Usha being held hostage. 
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Jen Psaki says JD Vance in “scarier” than Donald Trump &amp; suggests his wife Usha wants out of their marriage.
“Blink 4 times. Come over here. We’ll save you.”<a href="https://t.co/aqgcyhlXZo">pic.twitter.com/aqgcyhlXZo</a>
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&#8220;I think the little Manchurian candidate, JD Vance, wants to be president more than anything else,&#8221; Psaki said. &#8220;I always wonder what&#8217;s going on in the mind of his wife. Like, are you OK? Please blink four times. We&#8217;ll come over here. We&#8217;ll save you.”
Psaki continued, &#8220;And that he&#8217;s willing to do anything to get there. And your whole iteration you just outlined, I mean, he&#8217;s scarier in certain ways, in some ways. And he&#8217;s young and ambitious and agile in the sense that he&#8217;s a chameleon who makes himself whatever he thinks the audience wants to hear from him.&#8221;
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The podcast episode&#8217;s description leaned into the same joke, &#8220;Usha Vance, please blink twice if you need help,&#8221; the caption said.
Social media users reacted strongly to the insinuations.
“Nothing baffles the liberal women more than a happy marriage,” one reply <a href="https://x.com/Millerita/status/1980778185244701072">said</a>. 
&#8220;Not a good person. At all,&#8221; Fox News contributor Joe Concha <a href="https://x.com/JoeConchaTV/status/1980753725237960900">said</a> of Psaki.
“For the party that supposedly champions feminism, they sure talk down to women on the other side,” another commenter <a href="https://x.com/PBlasphememes/status/1980753856519659836">observed</a>.
“MSNBC should be ashamed to pay her salary,&#8221; Libs of TikTok posted.
“Usha is accompanying JD right now in Israel securing the Gaza Peace Deal. Absolutely disgusting comments,&#8221; conservative pundit Jack Posobiec <a href="https://x.com/JackPosobiec/status/1980751133334208880">said</a>.
White House Communications Director Steven Cheung also shared his reaction on X, writing that Psaki &#8220;must be transferring her own personal issues onto others.&#8221; 
“[Psaki] is a dumbass who has no comprehension of the truth and has to overcompensate for her lack of talent by saying untrue things,” he <a href="https://x.com/StevenCheung47/status/1980778057896997362">added</a>, before repeating a phrase she often used while serving as press secretary. “Circle back on that, moron.”

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MSNBC’s Jen Psaki Slammed For ‘Unhinged’ Attack On Second Lady Usha Vance

MSNBC's Jen Psaki Slammed For 'Unhinged' Attack On Second Lady Usha Vance

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Vice President JD Vance promised again on Tuesday that no American troops would be deployed to Gaza as Hamas tests the limits of the ceasefire with Israel that was brokered by President Donald Trump.
Vance met with Israeli leaders in southern Israel to discuss the ceasefire and hostage deal, saying at a press conference that he’s “optimistic” that the agreement will hold. The vice president then assured the American people that the Trump administration would not deploy U.S. forces to Gaza.
“I think it&#8217;s important for Americans to know a couple of things. Number one: there are not going to be American boots on the ground in Gaza,” Vance said. “The President of the United States has made that very clear. All of our military leadership has made that very clear.”
“What we can do is provide some useful coordination,” he added, saying that the United States would continue to act as a mediator between the Gulf Arab states, Egypt, Turkey, and Israel.
“The only real mediators are the United States of America. That’s the role that we’re going to play [that] I think the American people should be proud of,” Vance said. “But they should know that there are going to be no American boots on the ground in Gaza.”
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/VP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@VP</a>: &#8220;There are not going to be American boots on the ground in Gaza. The President of the United States has made that very clear.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/y0p4cTOPgA">pic.twitter.com/y0p4cTOPgA</a>
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President Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-says-u-s-has-no-choice-but-to-go-in-and-kill-hamas-if-violence-in-gaza-doesnt-end">warned</a> Hamas last week, saying that if the terrorists continue their violence in Gaza, “we will have no choice but to go in and kill them.” Trump later said that he was not referring to U.S. forces being used to take out the terrorists.
“I didn’t say who will go in, but somebody will go in,” he said. “It’s not going to be us. We won’t have to. There are people very close, very nearby that will go in. They’ll do the trick very easily, but under our auspices.”
Shortly after the ceasefire went into effect and Israeli troops withdrew from much of the Gaza Strip, Hamas publicly executed men whom it accused of conspiring with Israel and started fighting rival groups within Gaza. Hamas has also failed to locate and hand over the rest of the deceased hostages.
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Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-warns-of-fast-furious-brutal-end-to-hamas-if-terror-group-keeps-violating-his-peace-deal?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Hank+Berrien&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=Trump+Warns+Of+%E2%80%98FAST%2C+FURIOUS%2C+%26+BRUTAL%E2%80%99+End+To+Hamas+If+Terror+Group+Keeps+Violating+His+Peace+Deal">added</a> in a Truth Social post on Tuesday, “an end to Hamas will be FAST, FURIOUS, &amp; BRUTAL!” if the terror group fails to abide by the terms of the deal.
Vance said at the press conference, “We know that Hamas has to comply with the deal, and if Hamas doesn’t comply with the deal, very bad things are going to happen. But I’m not going to do what the President of the United States has thus far refused to do, which is put an explicit deadline on it, because a lot of this stuff is difficult. A lot of this stuff is unpredictable.”
Vance said that the United States and its partners would continue to work to bring the deceased hostages home and rebuild Gaza. He added that he believes some of the Arab nations are growing impatient with Hamas.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/VP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@VP</a>: &#8220;We know that Hamas has to comply with the deal, and if Hamas doesn&#8217;t comply with the deal, very bad things are going to happen&#8230; in order for us to give it a chance to succeed, we&#8217;ve got to be a little bit flexible.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/msu2IRoZf9">pic.twitter.com/msu2IRoZf9</a>
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Vance Reaffirms Trump’s Promise: No U.S. Boots On Gaza Ground

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Vice President JD Vance is expected to visit the Middle East on Tuesday to push the second phase of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas as it teeters on renewed violence from the terror group.
Israel accused Hamas of violating the ceasefire on Sunday after militants appeared out of a tunnel in Israeli-controlled territory in Gaza and killed two Israeli soldiers in an anti-tank rocket attack. In response, the Israeli military launched around 20 airstrikes across Gaza, according to <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/10/19/trump-gaza-deal-hamas-israel">Axios</a>.
Hamas did not deny the attack, though it said that it was carried out by a faction or militants that were not acting on orders from Hamas leadership.
“We are not aware of any incidents or clashes taking place in the Rafah area, because these are zones under Israeli control, and contact has been severed with our groups that remained there,” Hamas said in a statement, according to Axios.
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In addition to the attack, Hamas continues to be in violation of phase one of the ceasefire deal by failing to return all the bodies of the deceased hostages. About half of the deceased remain in Gaza, and the terror group has said it needs more time to locate them.
The United States and Israel have made separate accusations against the terror group in recent days of violating the terms of the ceasefire agreement that saw Israel withdraw from roughly half of Gaza and release hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.
The U.S. State Department on Saturday said in a <a href="https://x.com/StateDept/status/1979670820042559983">statement</a> that the “United States has informed the guarantor nations of the Gaza peace agreement of credible reports indicating an imminent ceasefire violation by Hamas against the people of Gaza.”
The State Department&#8217;s statement is “likely related to Hamas&#8217; crackdown on the Palestinian population since the ceasefire went into effect,” <a href="https://x.com/JoeTruzman/status/1979675424017035309">according</a> to Foundation for Defense of Democracies senior research analyst Joe Truzman.
Since the ceasefire officially began last week, videos have surfaced on social media of Hamas militants publicly executing or brutally beating Gazans. In one <a href="https://x.com/JoeTruzman/status/1979627362645082376">video</a>, militants drop large rocks on a man’s legs before beating him with a pipe.
Trump has repeatedly said that Hamas will disarm, or they will be disarmed. He repeated that promise in an interview with Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” that aired on Sunday.
“They promised they would [disarm]. They said they would. It&#8217;s [written] down that they would,” <a href="https://x.com/Osint613/status/1979919036847718410">said</a> Trump. “If we have to, we&#8217;ll disarm them.”
He clarified that the United States would not send soldiers into Gaza and that a proxy could fight Hamas: “Could be Israel with our backing. We won&#8217;t have boots on the ground. There&#8217;s no reason to.”
The actions of Hamas militants inside and outside its zone of control in the Gaza Strip have strained the already tenuous ceasefire in place between the terror group and Israel. Vance is expected to visit Israel with U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff to provide more direct oversight of the terms of the peace agreement.
One major point of tension in the peace process is the requirement that Hamas be disarmed.
“There is no security infrastructure currently that would ensure Hamas is disarmed,” Vance <a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/416493">said</a> on Sunday evening.

JD Vance To Visit Israel To Push Phase Two Of Gaza Peace Plan

JD Vance To Visit Israel As Gaza Ceasefire Teeters On Hamas Violence

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President Donald Trump said Sunday night that the ceasefire was still in place after Israel launched strikes in Gaza after accusing Hamas of opening fire on its soldiers over the weekend. 
Israel attacked parts of Gaza on Sunday after accusing Hamas terrorists of killing two Israel Defense Forces soldiers operating in Rafah. Despite the back-and-forth, Trump told reporters on Air Force One that the ceasefire was still in place. 
“We&#8217;re going to have to see what’s happening. We want to make sure that it&#8217;s going to be very peaceful with Hamas and as you know, they&#8217;ve been quite rambunctious,” he said. “They&#8217;ve been doing some shooting and we think maybe the leadership isn&#8217;t involved in that. You know, some rebels within, but either way, it&#8217;s going to be handled properly. It&#8217;s going to be handled toughly but properly.”
Later on, when asked by a reporter if he believed the Israeli strikes were justified, Trump said that he would “have to get back to you on that.” 
The IDF said Sunday that terrorists launched anti-tank missiles and gunfire at its troops working to “dismantle terrorist infrastructure” in southern Gaza. 
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“In response, the IDF has begun striking in the area to eliminate the threat and dismantle tunnel shafts and military structures used for terrorist activity,” the IDF <a href="https://x.com/IDF/status/1979872480056504512">said</a>. “These terrorist actions constitute a blatant violation of the ceasefire agreement, and the IDF will respond firmly.”
The IDF later said that these strikes were directed toward weapons storage facilities, firing posts, terrorist cells, and terror infrastructure. It also took out about six kilometers of “underground terrorist infrastructure,” the IDF said. 
Vice President JD Vance, who is expected to travel to Israel on Tuesday, said Sunday that there were still a lot of moving parts on the ground in Gaza that complicated the ceasefire. 
“We don&#8217;t actually know even what the reality on the ground is there. When we talk about Hamas, you&#8217;re talking about 40 different cells. It&#8217;s disjointed. Some of those cells will probably honor the ceasefire. Many of those cells, as we saw some evidence of today, will not. Before we actually can ensure that Hamas is properly disarmed that&#8217;s going to require, as we know, some of these Gulf Arab states, to get forces in there to actually apply some law and order and some security keeping on the ground.”
Vance also said that the ceasefire would likely include “fits and starts” because members of Hamas would fire on Israel, and Israel would have to respond.

President Trump Returns To The White House

Trump: Gaza Ceasefire Still Holding Despite Hamas Violence, Israeli Strikes

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“No Kings” protests return as Trump continues his nationwide crime crackdown, a new investigation exposes dark money behind anti-Trump demonstrations, and Israel strikes Gaza after Hamas reportedly violates the ceasefire.
It’s Monday, October 20, 2025, and this is the news you need to know to start your day.
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">The Return Of ‘No Kings’</h2>
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Topline: As President Donald Trump continues his anti-immigration crackdown, deploying more National Guardsmen nationwide, hundreds of thousands gathered for protests against him and his policies.
On Saturday, potentially more than a million demonstrators took part in anti-Trump No Kings protests at more than 2000 locations around the country. While the demonstrations were largely peaceful, there were some pockets of violence.
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In Portland, three protesters were arrested following an alleged assault. In the Chicago area, 15 people were arrested after clashing with law enforcement outside of an ICE facility. In Los Angeles, police deployed tear gas after declaring an unlawful assembly.
Protesters expressed anger with nearly every action Trump has taken since taking office, but his illegal immigration crackdown and subsequent National Guard deployments were at the forefront. The protests were notable for another reason: the attendees <a href="https://x.com/camkasky/status/1980111989163618730">appeared</a> to be much older than a typical protest crowd.
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">The Billionaires Backing ‘No Kings’</h2>
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Topline: All the focus on the No Kings protests over the last week has drawn attention to the organizations fueling them. Now, a new report from Peter Schweizer and his Government Accountability Institute (GAI) found nearly $300 million from billionaire-backed networks is being funneled to the protests’ organizers.
Morning Wire spoke with Seamus Bruner, director of research at GAI and author of the book “Contrologarchs,” about the dollar trail. (The following transcript has been lightly edited for clarity.)
Morning Wire: With all the noise surrounding these No Kings protests, your team dug into the organizations conducting them. What did you find?
Bruner: What we found is that these are extremely well-funded, these organizations. We calculated over $200 million, really closer to $300 million in the last five years has gone into the partner organization. This is basically anything but grassroots.
Morning Wire: Right – and this is part of a larger pattern when it comes to left-wing protests. You guys have tracked that, what you’ve been calling Riot Inc., which includes events like the No Kings protest. Unpack that for us. Who is behind this exactly?
Bruner: Yeah, so the main person who keeps coming up is George Soros. And we thought, well, it&#8217;s not just George Soros and his Open Society institutes. He&#8217;s a main financier of all kinds of left-wing projects, including the protest industrial complex. But there&#8217;s also this Arabella network. … They are a major financier of these protest movements and groups. There&#8217;s also the Tides funding network, the Ford Foundation funding network – we&#8217;ve looked at probably a dozen or so funding networks with more than $10 billion flowing through these accounts. But the main ones we put into our report were the Soros, Arabella, Tides, and a few other funding networks.
Morning Wire: We&#8217;ve had lots of leftwing protests over the years get very, very violent. Is there a sense that there is going to be some accountability for these institutions funding these protests?
Bruner: That&#8217;s my sense. I was at the White House last week talking with President Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel. They all seem very locked in on this issue, wanting to get to the money, not just the boots on the ground and the people committing the violence, but who is financing this. I&#8217;ve spoken with some people at Homeland Security Investigations. They seem to be very interested in the follow-the-money aspect. I think that they are working their way up.
Morning Wire: Related to that – we’ve just seen the Trump administration label &#8220;Antifa&#8221; a terrorist organization. How does that impact the sense that, again, there&#8217;s going to be some movement in terms of tracking down and holding accountable some of these groups funding things that turn violent?
Bruner: At the end of the day, the people who they arrest, whether they’re domestic terrorists or not, are going to be charged with violent crimes. These are the people who are assaulting ICE officers, setting fire to cars and buildings. And so I don’t think that they’re going to be arresting anybody as a domestic terrorist who hasn’t actually committed some sort of crime.
Morning Wire: The Democrats counter this by claiming that &#8220;Antifa&#8221; is actually a myth. It&#8217;s not actually an organization and thus a false label. What&#8217;s your response to that?
Bruner: It’s preposterous to say that Antifa isn’t an organization just because it doesn’t have an LLC or EIN or some sort of corporate entity. There’s all kinds of groups that don&#8217;t have corporate entities that can be investigated as organizations. … But law enforcement has the tools to follow the money even in those ways that we don’t.
<h2 style="text-align: center;">Ceasefire In Jeopardy After Hamas Violence</h2>
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Topline: Vice President JD Vance is set to visit the Middle East this week as violent clashes in Gaza buffet President Trump’s historic Middle East peace deal.
The first violation: The State Department said in a <a href="https://x.com/StateDept/status/1979670820042559983">statement</a> on Saturday that: “The United States has informed the guarantor nations of the Gaza peace agreement of credible reports indicating an imminent ceasefire violation by Hamas against the people of Gaza.”
The warning from the State Department comes after videos have surfaced on social media over the past week of Hamas militants conducting public executions or essentially torturing Gazans for alleged crimes.
President Donald Trump said in an interview on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” that Hamas will be disarmed one way or another.
“They promised they would [disarm]. They said they would. It&#8217;s [written] down that they would,” <a href="https://x.com/Osint613/status/1979919036847718410">said</a> Trump. “If we have to, we&#8217;ll disarm them.”
He clarified that the United States would not send soldiers into Gaza and that a proxy could fight Hamas: “Could be Israel with our backing. We won&#8217;t have boots on the ground. There&#8217;s no reason to.”
The second violation: Israel has accused Hamas of violating the ceasefire for attacks against the IDF.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with his security cabinet on Sunday to discuss the future of the ceasefire. The IDF is still holding behind the so-called “yellow line” that was agreed upon as part of the first phase of the truce.
According to the IDF, Hamas militants came out of a tunnel in IDF territory and fired an anti-tank rocket at Israeli forces that killed two soldiers. Israel responded by launching around 20 airstrikes across Gaza.
Hamas didn’t deny the attack; the terrorist group said that because it happened in an area under Israeli control, “contact has been severed with our groups that remained there.”
Future of peace: Trump is still optimistic about his plan for peace in the Middle East. The U.S. military is in the region watching over the ceasefire. Vance and special envoy Steve Witkoff will be in Israel this week to monitor the ceasefire closely.
Despite the chaos, Trump has said he expects an expansion of the Abraham Accords soon.

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Morning Brief: ‘No Kings’ Protests Return, The Funding Behind Them, & Gaza Ceasefire Wavers

Morning Brief: ‘No Kings’ Returns, The Billionaires Behind It, And Gaza Ceasefire Wavers

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Morning Wire

Vice President JD Vance said that there will be no American “boots on the ground” in Israel, though troops in the region will monitor the ceasefire agreement between Israel and the terror group Hamas.
Vance appeared on NBC News’ “Meet The Press” on Sunday and clarified the role of U.S. service members in Israel after a report last week said 200 U.S. soldiers would be stationed in Israel. Vance said that U.S. Central Command “already [has] people in that region of the world” to help with oversight.
“We&#8217;re not planning to put boots on the ground. What we already have is a U.S. Central Command, we already have people in that region of the world,” said Vance. “They&#8217;re going to monitor the terms of the ceasefire. They&#8217;re going to monitor, ensure the humanitarian aid is flowing.”
The vice president specified that the Trump administration will not put “boots on the ground in Gaza or Israel,” but “Central Command troops that are already there … are going to monitor this peace proposal.”
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“We&#8217;ve actually had – and this is one of the great successes of the president&#8217;s diplomacy from Indonesia to the Gulf Arab states – we&#8217;ve had a number of Muslim majority countries offer to step up and have them put troops on the ground to secure Gaza. It&#8217;s not going to be necessary for American troops to be in Gaza,” Vance added.
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The U.S. will not have &#8220;boots on the ground in Gaza or Israel,&#8221; says <a href="https://twitter.com/VP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@VP</a>.
&#8220;We&#8217;re going to have CENTCOM troops that are already there that are going to monitor this peace proposal&#8230; It&#8217;s not going to be necessary for American troops to be in Gaza.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/pOMPhVzLeG">pic.twitter.com/pOMPhVzLeG</a>
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1977372842657239166?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 12, 2025</a></blockquote>
On CBS News’ “Face The Nation” on Sunday, Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/badr-abdelatty-egypt-foreign-minister-face-the-nation-transcript-10-12-2025/">confirmed</a> that Egypt is in the process of coordinating with other Arab countries to deploy troops to Gaza to train Gazan police forces as well as control the enclave that has been ruled by terrorists for decades.
“We are in the process now, as we speak, [of] providing training and coordination with Jordan to train up to 5,000 Palestinians to be deployed in Gaza,” said Abdelatty. “Deployment of international forces is on the table,” he said, adding that Egypt supports the idea.
“We are going to support and to commit troops within specific parameters,” the foreign minister said, though he noted that Egyptian troops would only be committed once certain demands are met, such as receiving a clearly defined mission for an international force from the U.N. security council.
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When asked if Egypt will provide troops on the ground in Gaza to help support its security and stabilization, Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty says, “Deployment of international force is on the table. We are supporting this idea, of course.”
“We are going to support and… <a href="https://t.co/NsdNdrgJye">pic.twitter.com/NsdNdrgJye</a>
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) <a href="https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1977407237753606272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 12, 2025</a></blockquote>

JD Vance: There Will Be No U.S. ‘Boots On The Ground’ In Israel, Gaza

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