Demonstrations were planned ahead of the Oval Office face-off between Vance and Ukrainian president Zelenskyy, but they gained momentum in the aftermath.

Campaigning in Pennsylvania last September, JD Vance seemed to strike at an unlikely political foe: the besieged president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, who’d spent most of the previous two years being hailed by Western leaders as a hero.

When Vice President JD Vance arrived in Vermont for a vacation after accomplishing nothing besides embarrassing America, Vermont residents understood the assignment and quickly drove him out of town.