JD Vance ridiculed for 40-car motorcade taking him down tiny Italian street [View all]

Vice President JD Vance is being ridiculed on social media for requiring a 100-car motorcade through narrow streets in Milan to meet Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. The planes carrying Vance and the U.S. delegation were also said to be holding staff, security, food, and vehicles, while the huge motorcade featured a flurry of Chevy Suburbans that could barely fit on the tiny streets of Milan.

“Some Scandinavian PMs bike to work or take the subway, the Romanian and Moldovan presidents just go by regular commercial flights. More or less the same goes for most European heads of state. JD Vance had 14 planes fly in this motorcade and his security detail to Italy,” one account on X said, with a video of the ridiculous-looking group of cars travelling through Milan.

“JD Vance went to meet Meloni in a 40-car motorcade full of Suburbans through the tiny streets of Milan,” added another. One user also said, “His 100-vehicle motorcade required 14 planes to transport. Milanese streets are tiny & athletes can’t reach venues due to VANCE-generated traffic jams.”

“Vance has been a vocal critic of 'entrenched elites' and government waste, yet his own security footprint is one of the largest in history,” added another. This comes after the vice president received a decidedly negative welcome from Italians at the Opening Ceremony of the Olympics. On Thursday, he and his wife, Usha, were booed loudly when they were shown on the big screen, and the footage went viral on social media.

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