The Vice President was treated to a demonstration against him while he was trying to enjoy a ski weekend, according to a new local report.
J.D. Vance arrived at Sugarbush Resort on Saturday morning to see protestors waiting for him, according to the Boston Globe.
It was "anger over Oval Office dispute with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky" that drew the "demonstrators," according to the outlet's reporting.
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"Fresh powder covered the mountains at Sugarbush Resort on Saturday morning as people waited in anticipation for Vice President JD Vance’s arrival for a ski weekend with his family," the report states. "People driving into the resort here saw a line of black Secret Service vehicles with blinking red and blue lights."
The report goes on to say it was "Vance’s tense argument with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office the day before" that "prompted some to protest of the vice president."
"One resort employee, who identified herself as Lucy Welch, went so far as to use Sugarbush’s online snow report to publish a lengthy condemnation of the Trump administration and the resort’s weekend guest," according to the news report. "The post was later removed, but a shorter audio version of her missive was still available on Sugarbush’s snow report hotline as of 1 p.m."
Further elaborating on the motives of the individual protestors, the Boston Globe reported, "Inside the resort two men who held signs reading 'Vance is a traitor go ski in Russia,' said they were told to leave the resort at around 9:30 a.m."
"Dan Vidali, 38, who lives in Montpelier, said Vance coming to Sugarbush for vacation was an insult to all Vermonters. 'He cannot vacation here without hearing our opposition to his policies,' he said," according to the article. "He said Vance was destroying democracy and called Friday’s confrontation with Zelensky a 'catastrophe.' He and a friend were told to leave the resort because it is private property, he said."
