Wednesday, February 11, 2026

JD Vance Scrambles To Delete Armenian Genocide Post

Vice President JD Vance has deleted a post about the Armenian Genocide from his social media accounts in an embarrassing climbdown. After attending the Milano Cortina Winter Olympic Games Opening Ceremony on Friday, he flew to Armenia as part of a much-touted trip to support a U.S.-brokered deal to end the country's long-running conflict with Azerbaijan. But he accidentally broke ranks with his own boss after he and his wife, Second Lady Usha Vance, laid a wreath on a memorial honoring those who died during Armenia's 1915 genocide. In the initial now-deleted social media post, Vance said they were "at the Armenian Genocide memorial to honor the victims of the 1915 Armenian genocide." Trump has long refused to call the systematic killing of Armenians a "genocide," a term disputed by U.S. ally Turkey. The initial post was supposedly made in error by a staffer who was not part of the delegation, an official said.

Comments


#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-02-11 01:43 AM

This "staffer" seems to be all over the place lately....

#2 | Posted by South_American at 2026-02-11 10:00 PM

Maybe the incompetent members of the Trumpf junta will switch from using "Staffer" to "Ida Know," "Not Me," or "Nobody."

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#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-02-11 10:24 PM

... The initial post was supposedly made in error by a staffer ...

Pres Trump has also used that excuse.

#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-02-11 10:44 PM

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