Vice President JD Vance unleashed a fiery rebuke yesterday during a speech in Concord, North Carolina, telling California Governor Gavin Newsom and other Democrats to “go straight to hell” for their rhetoric against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
The outburst came mere hours after a politically motivated shooting at an ICE facility in Dallas, Texas, where a gunman killed one detainee and wounded two others, with ammunition found inscribed with “anti-ICE” messages. Vance argued that Newsom’s recent characterization of the Trump administration as “authoritarian” and ICE as a “private domestic army”—including a new California law banning masked ICE agents—had incited “crazy people” to violence against law enforcement.
This isn’t Vance’s first brush with profanity; in a September 2025 X post defending HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., he blasted Senate critics as “full of s—” for supporting “mutilating our kids” via hormone therapies, and earlier that year, he admitted to yelling “shut the hell up” at his young son during a phone call to underscore his no-nonsense parenting style.
President Trump has similarly normalized cursing in office, most notably in June 2025 when he dropped an F-bomb on live TV, venting frustration over Israel and Iran violating a ceasefire he brokered by declaring, “We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the f*** they’re doing.” Other Trump examples include his 2018 “shithole countries” remark about Haiti and African nations during an immigration meeting, and calling Biden-era indictments “bulls—t” at a July 2025 White House Faith Office luncheon.
Public reactions to Vance’s latest expletive split sharply along partisan lines, with Trump supporters praising it as impassioned authenticity that cuts through sanitized political speak, much like Trump’s blunt style that resonates with voters tired of elite decorum. Critics, however, decried it as unbecoming of an elected official, arguing that such vulgarity from the vice presidency erodes civil discourse and sets a poor example, especially amid rising political violence.
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