WASHINGTON—Vice President JD Vance weighed in Monday on those who use &#8220;heartbreaking&#8221; stories of miscarriage to fear-monger women into supporting a pro-abortion agenda.
The vice president shared an <a href="https://x.com/JDVance/status/1998055054901743741">X thread</a> from a woman who revealed that she miscarried her baby while living in Texas, where pro-abortion activists have falsely argued that women will be jailed or prosecuted if they miscarry a baby due to the state&#8217;s pro-life laws.
&#8220;I live in Texas,&#8221; wrote the woman, who identified herself on X as &#8220;Sky.&#8221; &#8220;I&#8217;ve lost a child. The miscarriage lies they tell you are bull.&#8221;
She explained: &#8220;In February of 2023 I found out that my baby didn&#8217;t have a heartbeat. When my hysterical sobs subsided in the sonogram room, my OBGYN kindly (and with much grace) gave me my options: I could let nature take its course, I could jump-start the process with medication, or I could opt for a D&amp;C. At no point was I blamed or questioned. It wasn&#8217;t my fault.&#8221;
&#8220;I was a grieving mother&#8230; I am still a grieving mother&#8230; who lost her child,&#8221; Sky wrote. &#8220;The medical system and the people within it, did what they could for me throughout the entire process. My story is not an outlier. It&#8217;s the norm. We do not live in a dystopian novel. Shit happens. Awful shit happens. But don&#8217;t you DARE scare women who are out there just trying to build a family for your own political gain. Monsters. Every one of you who push this narrative that women will be imprisoned for a miscarriage.&#8221;
The vice president quoted the post, calling it a &#8220;very heartbreaking testimony.&#8221;
&#8220;Losing a baby is terrible and heartbreaking, especially for the mom, and we shouldn&#8217;t use political lies to capitalize on that,&#8221; the vice president wrote.
Vance&#8217;s attention to the issue is notable, particularly given how politically problematic abortion has become for Republicans. Trump, who helmed the most pro-life administration in United States history and continues to support the pro-life cause, notably does not currently discuss abortion except to note that Democrats support a radical abortion vision that allows for abortions until birth.
Particularly during the 2024 election, as Democrats sought to portray Vance and President Donald Trump as extremists on abortion. Abortion advocates hyped the notion that pro-life laws endangered women. One of these heavily promoted false notions suggested that women who miscarried their babies would be targeted by local officials, akin to something out of a dystopian novel such as &#8220;The Handmaid&#8217;s Tale.&#8221;
As the 2024 election came to a head, multiple outlets published viral stories seeking to suggest that a Trump presidency would imperil women.
One such story was that of Amari Marsh, a then-22-year-old woman who gave birth to a living baby girl on March 1, 2023, according to police reports obtained by The Daily Wire. Marsh&#8217;s story, <a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/pregnancy-loss-criminalization-homicide-south-carolina-college-student/">written by KFF Health News and republished on CNN</a>, was complicated, upsetting, and missing details. What was apparent, however, was the narrative that KFF&#8217;s story pushed: that an innocent woman faced jail time for a miscarriage. 
According to the police reports obtained by The Daily Wire, police said that Marsh told them she gave birth to her baby in the toilet after visiting Planned Parenthood to obtain abortion drugs. Though officers repeatedly tried to get her to remove the baby from the toilet while speaking to her on the phone, she did not. When the officers arrived on the scene, they found Marsh&#8217;s baby still alive, but covered in toilet paper, lying in the toilet water. The officers &#8220;began life saving measures&#8221; while transporting the baby to RMC (Regional Medical Center of Orangeburg and Calhoun Counties), where the baby was ultimately pronounced dead.
An arrest warrant obtained by The Daily Wire, dated May 2, 2023, states that Marsh waited 10 minutes to call 911 after her baby was born alive (Marsh alleged to KFF that she was freaking out and said, &#8220;I couldn’t even keep myself together&#8221;). It also states that she would not remove her baby from the toilet even when officers told her to.
&#8220;She refused to remove the baby from the water in the toilet at the urging of the dispatcher, which was ultimately a proximate cause of her daughter&#8217;s death,&#8221; the arrest warrant states. &#8220;The cause of death was ruled respiratory complications due to prematurity due to preterm premature rupture of membranes with chorioamnionitis due to maternal chlamydia infection. These are treatable diagnoses in a NICU.&#8221; 
She was charged with murder/homicide by child abuse. A South Carolina grand jury<a href="https://www.pregnancyjusticeus.org/press/south-carolina-pregnancy-criminalization-case-dropped-in-a-victory-for-maternal-health/"> declined in August</a> to indict her.
<div id="attachment_1011337" style="width: 874px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jd-vance-slams-leftists-for-trying-to-capitalize-on-political-lies-surrounding-miscarriages/portrait-series-at-the-supreme-courts-oral-arguments-over-whether-to-restrict-access-to-mifepristone-in-washington-dc-2" rel="attachment wp-att-1011337"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1011337" class="wp-image-1011337 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/12/GettyImages-2107867541-864x576.jpg" alt="Abortion advocate Laura Klime Coates of Baltimore embraces her daughter, Charlize, 9, as they pose for a portrait with her sign outside the Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on March 26, 2024. (Photo by Shuran Huang for The Washington Post via Getty Images)" width="864" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/12/GettyImages-2107867541-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/12/GettyImages-2107867541-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/12/GettyImages-2107867541-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/12/GettyImages-2107867541.jpg 1024w" sizes=" (max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px" /></a>Pro-abortion activist Laura Klime Coates embraces her daughter, Charlize, 9, as they pose outside the Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on March 26, 2024. (Photo by Shuran Huang for The Washington Post via Getty Images)</div>
In the incident report, dated March 1, 2023, Marsh allegedly told officers that she knew she was pregnant in November 2022, made an appointment with Planned Parenthood two months later, intending to &#8220;take the Plan-C pill, which would possibly cause an abortion to occur.&#8221; She also said she &#8220;was supposed to have a follow-up appointment to make sure the pill worked but never went back.&#8221; 
In October 2024, she would <a href="https://www.wistv.com/2024/10/30/orangeburg-county-woman-speaks-out-after-charge-over-2023-miscarriage-dropped/">claim</a> that she didn&#8217;t even know she was pregnant at the time of her baby&#8217;s birth. 
But she told police in March that on February 28, 2023, she began experiencing abdominal pain and went to the hospital, where she was told &#8220;she was pregnant and a heartbeat was located.&#8221; Marsh told officers that &#8220;the energy in the room was off&#8221; and she felt uncomfortable, so she went home, where she gave birth to her baby in the toilet. She told officers that she did not take her child out of the toilet because &#8220;she did not know what to do.&#8221;
KFF&#8217;s story paints a different picture. It refers to the baby only as a &#8220;pregnancy loss,&#8221; never mentions that the baby was likely around 20 weeks old, and suggests that Marsh&#8217;s case raises &#8220;questions about the state of reproductive rights in this country, disparities in health care, and pregnancy criminalization, especially for Black women like Marsh,&#8221; specifically noting that Marsh&#8217;s case &#8220;highlights what’s at stake in November.&#8221; 
The story also says that Marsh denied to KFF that she went to Planned Parenthood or took abortion drugs (though the police report says she told them she went to Planned Parenthood in January 2023). KFF also argues that the police report &#8220;doesn’t specify whether she took — or even obtained — the drug,&#8221; and the publication does not mention Marsh&#8217;s assertion to police that &#8220;she was supposed to have a follow-up appointment to make sure the pill worked but never went back.&#8221; 
The publication did not respond to requests for comment.

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X has surged in popularity after the European Union announced last week that it had fined the social media platform for violating transparency rules and other regulations.
Elon Musk, who purchased X in 2022, has celebrated X’s surging popularity and mocked the European Union’s attempts to punish the free speech platform. Musk has touted rankings that show X has become the most downloaded app across Europe since the EU announced its action against Musk’s platform.
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Now number 1 in every EU country! <a href="https://t.co/tQOpiPVRkw">https://t.co/tQOpiPVRkw</a>
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1997726311754989762?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 7, 2025</a></blockquote>
“X is seeing record-breaking downloads in many countries in Europe,” Musk <a href="https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1997710799440429292">posted</a> on Sunday.
“The European Union is not DEMOcracy–rule of the people–but rather BUREAUcracy–rule of the unelected bureaucrat!” Musk added in a <a href="https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1997711558508695979">post</a> several minutes later.
The European Commission, the main governing body of the European Union, announced on Friday that it had <a href="https://x.com/EU_Commission/status/1996968219286904832">fined</a> X the equivalent of about $140 million for “non-compliance with transparency obligations under the [Digital Services Act].”
The commission <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_2934">said</a> that X’s “blue checkmark” stamp on accounts, which is given to those accounts that pay for verification, is deceptive. The commission also accused X of illegally blocking researchers and governments from accessing parts of its data.
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In a response from X’s head of product, Nikita Bier accused the commission of hypocrisy, exploiting a bug in X’s platform for advertisements to extend the reach of the commission’s video announcing its action against X. Bier said that X has since cut off the commission’s access to X’s Ad Composer tool for using it to deceive users.
“The irony of your announcement: You logged into your dormant ad account to take advantage of an exploit in our Ad Composer — to post a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach,” Bier <a href="https://x.com/nikitabier/status/1997450541275005041">posted</a>. “As you may be aware, X believes everyone should have an equal voice on our platform. However, it seems you believe that the rules should not apply to your account. Your ad account has been terminated.”
Bier’s response was reposted by Musk.
The commission’s action against Musk has riled top officials in the Trump administration, deepening a divide between the United States and Europe over regulation and speech.
“The European Commission’s $140 million fine isn’t just an attack on [X], it’s an attack on all American tech platforms and the American people by foreign governments. The days of censoring Americans online are over,” <a href="https://x.com/SecRubio/status/1996974377003319667">said</a> Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
“The EU should be supporting free speech not attacking American companies over garbage,” <a href="https://x.com/JDVance/status/1996701953372704921">said</a> Vice President JD Vance a day before the fine was announced.

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The European Union fined Elon Musk&#8217;s X $140 million on Friday as the bloc targets American social media companies under its expansive internet accountability regulations.
The European Commission, which is the European Union&#8217;s executive branch, <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_2934">accused</a> Elon Musk&#8217;s company of deceiving its users, failing to meet advertising transparency requirements, and failing to give researchers access to the platform&#8217;s data. The commission argues that X violated its Digital Services Act, regulations put into place in 2022 that are designed to clamp down on what it views as illegal content and misinformation on social media.
Before the fine was officially announced, Vice President JD Vance ripped the European Union for planning to impose the penalties against X.
&#8220;Rumors swirling that the EU commission will fine X hundreds of millions of dollars for not engaging in censorship. The EU should be supporting free speech not attacking American companies over garbage,&#8221; Vance <a href="https://x.com/JDVance/status/1996701953372704921">wrote</a>.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio <a href="https://x.com/SecRubio/status/1996974377003319667">added</a>, &#8220;The European Commission’s $140 million fine isn’t just an attack on @X, it’s an attack on all American tech platforms and the American people by foreign governments. The days of censoring Americans online are over.&#8221;
The European Commission&#8217;s top complaint against X on Friday is that the social media company allows any user to &#8220;obtain the ‘verified&#8217; status without the company meaningfully verifying who is behind the account, making it difficult for users to judge the authenticity of accounts and content they engage with.&#8221; The commission said that the Digital Services Act does not require platforms to verify users, but added that the regulation &#8220;clearly prohibits online platforms from falsely claiming that users have been verified, when no such verification took place.&#8221;
&#8220;Deceiving users with blue checkmarks, obscuring information on ads and shutting out researchers have no place online in the EU,&#8221; said Henna Virkkunen, the executive vice president for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy.&#8221; DSA protects users. The DSA gives researchers the way to uncover potential threats. The DSA restores trust in the online environment. With the DSA’s first non-compliance decision, we are holding X responsible for undermining users’ rights and evading accountability.&#8221;
Musk also responded to the commission&#8217;s complaint, writing on X that his goal with X&#8217;s verification system &#8220;was to democratize verification, rather than have it be controlled by a group of biased elites!&#8221;
The European Union&#8217;s move against X was condemned by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, with FCC Chair Brendan Carr saying that Europe is &#8220;taxing Americans.&#8221;
&#8220;Once again, Europe is fining a successful U.S. tech company for being a successful U.S. tech company,&#8221; Carr <a href="https://x.com/BrendanCarrFCC/status/1996945925822939407">said</a>. &#8220;Europe is taxing Americans to subsidize a continent held back by Europe’s own suffocating regulations.&#8221;
Conservatives have argued that the Digital Services Act is a way for Europe to clamp down on free speech, even for Americans.
“The DSA can impact anyone, can impact content creators and influencers and preachers and political dissidents and any kind of content online can be regulated by the DSA through its architecture,” Dr. Adina Portaru, a senior counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom International, told <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/europe-union-ignored-free-speech-concerns-plows-ahead-with-global-censorship-regime">The Daily Wire</a> earlier this year.
X was given 60 days to inform the European Commission of how it plans to address the issues laid out by the bloc. The social media platform has 90 days to submit an &#8220;action plan&#8221; to the commission, and the Board of Digital Services will then have one month to issue its opinion and another month to release its final decision.

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WASHINGTON—In a stunning show of executive authority, President Donald Trump today exercised the power granted to him under Article II, Section 2 of the United States Constitution “to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States.”
The lucky duck was a turkey named Gobble. Unlike in previous years, those assembled in the Rose Garden on this drizzly Tuesday morning knew which bird would be spared right away: First Lady Melania Trump’s office asked Americans to choose which bird her husband would pardon, and he alone was present at Tuesday’s ceremony.
Gathered on the dais were a who’s-who of the Trump Cabinet: Vice President JD Vance with his wife, Usha, and their children; Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Education Secretary Linda McMahon, FBI Director Kash Patel, and Attorney General Pam Bondi.
“This is a big day, a pardon day for a very important beast,” Trump said, prompting a gobble from Gobble. “That’s a well-trained turkey. See how happy he is?”
At one point during the event, Weather Report’s 1977 jazz fusion hit “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqashW66D7o" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Birdland</a>” played over the Rose Garden speakers, a clever musical wink for those who caught the tune.
Trump joked that when he first saw a picture of Gobble and runner-up Waddle, he wanted to “call them Chuck and Nancy,” a reference to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
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Trump jokes that he wanted to call today&#8217;s turkeys Chuck &amp; Nancy💀😂
&#8220;I shouldn&#8217;t say this. I was going to call them Chuck and Nancy, but then I realized I wouldn&#8217;t be pardoning them. I would never pardon those two people.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/LT49QgTnJU">pic.twitter.com/LT49QgTnJU</a>
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1993376794062545075?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 25, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“But then I realized I wouldn’t pardon those two people. I would never pardon them, I don’t care what Melania would tell me.”
Schumer and Pelosi weren’t the only Democrats to draw a presidential jab at the ceremony. Touting his administration’s success in cracking down on crime in Washington and Memphis, Trump called on Illinois Governor JB Pritzker to allow them to do the same in Chicago.
“Governor Pritzker, if you’re listening, let’s get your act together,” Trump said before noting that he would not “talk about the fact that he’s a fat slob.”
“I don’t mention it,” Trump said, adding that “I’d like to lose a few pounds.”
“But I’m not gonna lose it on Thanksgiving, I’ll tell you that. Because I’m gonna have a turkey, but it’s not gonna be that one.”
Trump also joked that all of President Joe Biden’s turkey pardons were null and void because his predecessor signed them with an autopen — but that he intervened to spare last year’s turkeys, Peach and Blossom, from the slaughterhouse.
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🚨<a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a> declares last year&#8217;s presidential turkey pardons INVALID because Biden used an autopen.😂
Thankfully, he intervened and granted Peach and Blossom a valid pardon to kick off today&#8217;s ceremony. <a href="https://t.co/BaxdOaLhIZ">pic.twitter.com/BaxdOaLhIZ</a>
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1993370734060802197?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 25, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Waddle, who Trump joked was “missing in action,” also received a presidential pardon and will step up as the National Thanksgiving Turkey should Gobble be unable to discharge his duties.
“Gobble, you’re pardoned!” the president said, evoking his famous television catch phrase.
About an hour before the pardon, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt ushered Waddle into the briefing room to meet the White House press corps. Leavitt stood by with her son (wearing a “Mama’s Little Turkey” shirt) as an excited press pool shouted questions at Waddle.
One journalist immediately asked if Waddle had a comment on Ukraine. The turkey had no comment.
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After departing the White House grounds today, Gobble and Waddle will return to their home state of North Carolina, where they will take up residence at NC State University alongside Chocolate and Chip, the turkeys Biden pardoned in 2022.
Alex Davidson, Senior Director of Public Affairs at the National Turkey Federation, said that Gobble and Waddle will be “agricultural ambassadors for the rest of their lives.”
Davidson also gave The Daily Wire the inside scoop on how the turkeys are selected. Every year, the National Turkey Federation’s rotating chairman designates a state from which the turkeys will hail — generally the chairman’s home state. The current chair, Butterball CEO Jay Jandrain, picked North Carolina, “the second largest turkey state in the country, after Minnesota,” Davidson says.
This year’s presidential flock was raised by Travis and Amanda Pittman of Wayne County (“I like Wayne County,” Trump remarked when thanking the Pitmans, noting that he did well there in the last election).
Davidson says that presidential turkeys are selected at a young age and raised just like any other bird, though they are given early exposure to lights and music to prepare them for the hustle and bustle of the national stage.
As pardon day gets closer, the flock of around 50 birds is whittled down to two finalists. According to the National Turkey Federation, the <a href="https://www.eatturkey.org/presidentialflock/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">winning turkeys</a> are those that have the best “physical appearance and temperament,” proof that looks matter, even in Washington.
Trump also touted the cost of turkey and other Thanksgiving foods. Turkey prices are down 16% from last year, according to a <a href="https://www.fb.org/news-release/cost-of-thanksgiving-dinner-declines" target="_blank" rel="noopener">new report </a>from the American Farm Bureau Federation. All told, the cost of an average Thanksgiving dinner is down 5% from 2024.
It’s generally held that Abraham Lincoln performed the first turkey pardon when he spared a bird at the request of his son, Tad. But the turkey pardon really traces its roots back to 1947, when the National Turkey Federation sent a 47-pound bird to President Harry Truman, a <a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/11/25/nx-s1-5620579/turkey-presidential-pardon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">peace offering</a> after the group sparred with the White House over postwar poultry rationing.
John F. Kennedy is said to have given the first presidential <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/other/presidential-turkey-pardons-not-long-history-you-might-think-f2D11663410" target="_blank" rel="noopener">turkey pardon</a>, remarking “we’ll just let this one grow.” But as with most good things in Washington, the pardon tradition really took shape under Ronald Reagan.
After being grilled about pardons for those involved in the Iran-Contra scandal during a 1987 press conference with Charlie the Turkey, the <a href="https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/speech/informal-exchange-reporters-3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gipper quipped</a> that, had he not been assured Charlie would head to a children’s farm, he “would have pardoned him.”
Since 1989, turkeys have been pardoned in an official White House ceremony, a tradition begun by President George H.W. Bush. Today, the pardon is just a high point in a long series of events for the turkeys, who are brought to Washington a few days early to make the rounds with the media. Gobble and Waddle reportedly did 20 interviews on Monday, before turning in for a night at the Willard InterContinental Hotel.
The hotel staff loves when the turkeys check in, Davidson says — and apparently the fowl are not that foul, as far as these things go. The National Turkey Federation prepares their swanky suite with layers of plastic and wood chips, and federation staffers clean up after the birds head up to Pennsylvania Avenue.
“We leave it like we found it,” Davidson said.

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Vice President JD Vance talked with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for around an hour on Friday as the two leaders discussed President Donald Trump&#8217;s newly crafted <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-admin-crafts-28-point-plan-to-end-war-in-ukraine">28-point plan</a> to end the war between Russia and Ukraine.
The call, which also included U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll, marked the first time that Zelensky spoke directly with the White House since Trump unveiled his new peace plan. While he did not address any specifics of the plan, Zelensky suggested that his country is ready to get to work on negotiations.
&#8220;We managed to cover a lot of details of the American side’s proposals for ending the war, and we’re working to make the path forward dignified and truly effective for achieving a lasting peace,&#8221; Zelensky said. &#8220;I’m grateful for the attention and willingness to work together with us and our partners. We agreed to work together with the U.S. and Europe at the level of national security advisors to make the path to peace truly doable.&#8221;
&#8220;Ukraine has always respected and continues to respect U.S. President Donald Trump’s desire to put an end to the bloodshed, and we view every realistic proposal positively,&#8221; Zelensky added. &#8220;We agreed to maintain constant contact, and our teams are ready to work 24/7. Thank you!&#8221;
Under the reported details of Trump&#8217;s plan, Ukraine would be forced to give up Crimea, Luhansk, and Donetsk, and parts of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, Axios <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/11/21/zelensky-vance-trump-peace-plan">reported</a>. Ukraine would also commit to never joining NATO and limiting its standing military in exchange for security guarantees from the United States. Both Russia and Ukraine would receive amnesty for crimes they committed during the war, and all military and civilian prisoners would be returned to their respective sides.
After details of the plan were reported, multiple European leaders committed to pursuing a peace plan that guarantees Ukraine&#8217;s sovereignty.
&#8220;Ukraine can count on us,&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/bundeskanzler/status/1991874364674035882">said</a> German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. &#8220;Together with [French President Emmanuel Macron] and [British Prime Minister Keir Starmer], I reaffirmed our full support to [Zelensky]. We will coordinate closely with Europe and the US, whose commitment to Ukraine’s sovereignty we welcome. The contact line must remain the basis for any talks.&#8221;
The Russia-Ukraine plan mirrors President Trump&#8217;s ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas that is monitored by Trump&#8217;s Peace Council. A senior U.S. official <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-admin-quietly-working-on-a-russia-ukraine-peace-plan-that-mirrors-gaza-deal?author=Zach+Jewell&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=3&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+Admin+%E2%80%98Quietly+Working%E2%80%99+On+A+Russia-Ukraine+Peace+Plan+That+Mirrors+Gaza+Deal">told</a> The Daily Wire on Thursday that Trump&#8217;s special envoy Steve Witkoff has been &#8220;quietly working&#8221; on the Russia-Ukraine plan for a month, &#8220;receiving input from both the Ukrainians and the Russians on what terms are acceptable to them to end the war.&#8221;
The call between Vance and Zelensky comes following months of talks between the Trump administration, Russia, and Ukraine, with little progress being made. In February, Trump, Vance, and Zelensky got into a heated back-and-forth in the Oval Office, part of which included the vice president <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-and-vance-clash-with-zelensky-in-fiery-white-house-meeting">scolding</a> Zelensky for attacking &#8220;the administration that is trying to prevent the destruction of your country.&#8221;
The war is nearing the four-year mark, and President Trump has grown increasingly frustrated with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, who has ramped up his aggression in recent months. Earlier this week, a Russian missile and drone <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy0yere4k0zo">attack</a> in Ternopil, Ukraine, killed 26 people, including three children, according to Ukrainian officials.

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Zelensky Suggests Ukraine Is Ready To Move On Trump’s 28-Point Plan After Talks With Vance

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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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Sydney Sweeney Says Trump’s Support Was ‘Surreal’ During Viral Jeans Ad Controversy

Sydney Sweeney Says Trump's Support Was 'Surreal' During Viral Jeans Ad Controversy 

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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>

JD Vance Brings Faith And Fire To Ole Miss

JD Vance Talks Immigration, Christianity, And Interfaith Marriage At Ole Miss

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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

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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Five Senate Republicans Buck White House In Vote Against Trump’s Tariffs

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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.”

Vance Provides Update On Ceasefire After Hamas Attack In Gaza

Vance Says ‘Ceasefire Is Holding’ After Hamas Attack In Gaza

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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;
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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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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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