JD Vance and Jake Paul sit collectively as they watch US ladies’s hockey at Winter Olympics | EUROtoday

U.S Vice President JD Vance was seen alongside influencer and boxer Jake Paul as they watched the uswomen’s hockey group safe a dominant 5-0 victory over Finland on the Winter Olympics on Saturday.

Vance and his household arrived throughout the first interval, with the US already main 1-0. Paul, whose fiancée Jutta Leerdam is a Dutch speedskater competing on the Milan Cortina Games, joined them shortly after.

The Vice President was pictured together with his youngest little one, Mirabel, on his lap. His spouse, Usha Vance, sporting a sweatshirt emblazoned with “USA”, clapped alongside to Queen’s “We Will Rock You” earlier than the second interval commenced.

Both stood to applaud when the American ladies’s group scored, cheering once more simply minutes later as one other objective was netted.

Jake Paul is a vocal supporter of the Trump administration and attended Trump’s second inauguration together with his brother Logan.

Among different notable figures seated close to Vance had been 2010 Olympic determine skating gold medallist Evan Lysacek, and the dual sisters Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson and Monique Lamoureux-Morando, each Hall of Famers and members of the US gold medal-winning facet on the 2018 Winter Games.

It’s the second time that Vance has watched the U.S. ladies’s group on the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.

He was additionally on the Milano Rho Ice Hockey Arena on Thursday, when the U.S. beat Czechia 5-1 in its opening sport of the preliminary spherical.

JD Vance was booed by spectators when the digital camera centered on him and his spouse on the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics opening ceremony on Friday night.

While the group cheered for Team USA athletes, jeers and whistles erupted as Vance and his spouse, Usha Vance, appeared on stadium screens, waving American flags.

Commentators highlighted this distinct shift within the crowd’s reception.

“There’s the vice president and his wife, Usha; those are not, oh, those are a lot of boos for him,” one commentator stated on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s protection.

The Independent’s Flo Clifford reported from inside San Siro stadium, “A largely positive reception for the U.S. contingent.

“There are thousands of American fans in the stadium – but very definite boos and jeers for vice president JD Vance and his wife, second lady Usha Vance, who the camera pans to waving American flags for a few brief seconds.”

Support for the U.S. amongst its allies has been eroding because the Trump administration has taken an aggressive posture on overseas coverage, together with imposing tariffs, army motion in Venezuela and threats to invade Greenland.