JD Vance booed at Winter Olympics opening ceremony as furore over ICE escalates
JD Vance, the US vice-president, was booed by spectators at the opening ceremony for the Winter Olympics in Italy.
With the American athletes largely cheered as they made their way into Milan’s San Siro, a significant portion of the crowd made their feelings known when the big screen inside the stadium briefly switched to Vance applauding the team and waving the US flag.
The vice-president has been accompanied in Italy by a unit of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, prompting protests in Milan that included a march attended by hundreds on Friday morning in Leonardo da Vinci plaza. A group displayed “ICE out” placards, blew whistles and shouted “We don’t want ICE in our city!” as they marched under drifting clouds of pink smoke.
It has been stressed that the ICE officers accompanying Vance and his family in Italy are from Homeland Security Investigations; a unit within ICE that focuses on cross-border crimes rather than the domestic immigration crackdown.
Vance, who has been outspoken in his criticism of European governments over the past year, was seated with his wife Usha just a few seats away from Thomas Bach, the former president of the International Olympic Committee.
He's a worthless cunt. So is his wife. So say we all.
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