At Union Station, Washington’s central train hub, Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, accompanied by White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, shook hands with National Guard soldiers at a Shake Shack restaurant.
“You’re doing a hell of a job,” Vance said, as demonstrators drowned him out with jeers and shouts of “Free D.C.!” He urged troops to ignore the “bunch of crazy protesters,” while Miller dismissed them as “stupid white hippies.”
