California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) wasn’t about to let Vice President JD Vance keep in Fantasyland after his journey to Disneyland.
When the vp was noticed in movies on X spending his Saturday on the Anaheim, California, attraction, Newsom reposted a clip of Vance and household strolling across the park and wrote, “Hope you enjoy your family time, @JDVance.”
“The families you’re tearing apart certainly won’t,” he continued, referring to deportation operations focusing on immigrants all through California and elsewhere within the nation.
Vance refused to handle the second half of Newsom’s remark in his reply, curtly replying, “Had a great time, thanks,” on Sunday.
Newsom’s press workplace additionally needled the vp about his Disneyland journey in a number of of its personal X posts.
“Tired: trashing California for political purposes,” the press workplace account wrote on Saturday. “Wired: visiting & vacationing in California more than your home state this year.”
In one other submit, the workplace took a swipe at Vance and the Trump administration over the Florida immigrant detention website referred to as “Alligator Alcatraz.”
“JD Vance on Tom Sawyer Island looking for the next Alligator Alcatraz,” it mentioned. “Too many happy families for him in one place.”
Newsom’s press workplace additionally reminded the vp that “35% of Anaheim’s residents are immigrants. Disneyland doesn’t run without them. Enjoy their labor.”
Newsom, who is alleged to be eyeing a 2028 presidential run, wasn’t the one critic with one thing to say about Vance’s trip.
On Friday, a number of protests befell close to the park and outdoors Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel, the place the previous senator and his household have been rumored to be staying.
And Vance wasn’t capable of escape criticism contained in the theme park, both. Multiple movies posted to TikTok confirmed the Republican being booed by onlookers, although cheers and applause is also heard combined in.
Vance was additionally confronted by Democratic National Committee Vice Chair Jane Fleming Kleeb, who posted a social media video of herself repeatedly shouting, “Mr. Vice President we support immigrants, we support America” as Vance walked previous a crowd of individuals.
“I thought California was violent,” she later added, alluding to feedback Vance made throughout a go to to Los Angeles final month.
After protests in opposition to President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown flared up throughout Southern California in June, Vance accused state Democratic leaders like Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass of letting “violent rioters burn great American cities to the ground.”
Newsom responded by difficult the vp to a debate, taking to X to ask, “Since you’re so eager to talk about me, how about saying it to my face?”
Vance’s qualms about California weren’t the one factor that made his Disneyland journey increase eyebrows.
In 2022, he accused Disney of benefiting from “government handouts” and “declaring war on America’s children.”
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