A large group of pro-Ukraine protestors verbally confronted Vice President JD Vance and his 3-year-old daughter while out for a walk over the weekend.
“Today while walking my 3 year old daughter a group of ‘Slava Ukraini’ protesters followed us around and shouted as my daughter grew increasingly anxious and scared,” Vance wrote on X.
The entire incident was captured on camera by WCPO 9.
In the video, Ukrainian flag-waving activists are seen complaining to the vice president that “people are dying.”
Vance calmly and collectively spoke to their concerns about Russia and a hopeful end to the war.
“Russia certainly invaded Ukraine in 2022, but there needs to be a settlement,” Vance told the protesters as one woman began to shout over him. More protesters joined in as Vance explained that he was trying to be respectful, shouting that the vice president has “no integrity.”
“Ma’am, I am with my 3-year-old daughter now, and I told you, I would talk to you for five minutes,” Vance said in the video, adding that he did not take his child out “have people run around and yell at her.”
Vance went on to explain in his X post that he engaged with the protesters in hopes that they would leave him and his daughter alone.
“It was a mostly respectful conversation, but if you’re chasing a 3-year-old as part of a political protest, you’re a shit person,” Vance added.
Vance’s weekend encounter with pro-Ukraine activists came more than one week after he and President Donald Trump argued with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in front of the American media on Feb. 28.
During the exchange, Vance criticized Zelenskyy’s apparent lack of gratitude for U.S. support in its war against Russia. After Trump slammed Zelenskyy for “disrespecting” the U.S., Vance pointedly asked, “Have you said thank you once?”