Veteran Slams JD Vance Over Forrest Gump Comparison | EUROtoday

Vice President JD Vance tried to mock a Democratic senator and veteran after she pressed Secretary of State Marco Rubio over whether or not the U.S. is at battle with Venezuela.

During a Senate Foreign Relations Committee listening to on Wednesday, Rubio insisted the U.S. isn’t at battle with the South American nation, which prompted Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) to ask him if he would advise the president “to rescind his invocation of the wartime Alien Enemies Act?”

“Of course not,” Rubio responded. “When it comes to narco-trafficking gangs and criminal gangs, there’s no doubt about the fact that we’re confronting them in a war-like setting.”

The heated change apparently caught Vance’s eyes, and he noticed an opportunity to troll Duckworth — a Purple Heart recipient and former Army helicopter pilot who misplaced her legs and partial use of her proper arm in the course of the Iraq War in 2004 — by evaluating her to (checks notes) Forrest Gump.

Watching Tammy Duckworth obsessively interrupt Marco Rubio throughout this listening to is like watching Forest Gump argue with Isaac Newton.

Vance may need thought he scored factors with that publish, however Duckworth countered with a robust, sharp retort that favorably in contrast the actions of Tom Hanks’ iconic movie character with these of the president himself.

“Forrest Gump ran toward danger in Vietnam. Your boss ran to his podiatrist crying bone spurs,” she identified, earlier than including that “petty insults at the expense of people with disabilities won’t change the fact that you’re risking troops’ lives to boost Chevron’s stock price.”

She added that her job as a senator is to “hold you accountable.”

Many folks loved Duckworth’s brutal riposte, which had the welcome facet impact of holding the vice chairman off of social media, if just for just a few hours.

Vance by no means did have interaction with Duckworth’s skillful verbal parry, as a substitute responding to the unique publish with unabashed phrases of biblical reward for Rubio.

“Thank God we have a Secretary of State who knows his facts AND has the patience of Job. Great job, @SecRubio,” he posted.