JD Vance ridiculed for 40-car motorcade taking him down tiny Italian street

[Mr. Sparkle]

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.

more... https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/jd-vance-ridiculed-40-car-36688400

[Ocelot II]

1. This faux hillbilly and alleged defiler of upholstery is certainly enjoying the trappings of his office.

Just wait until Satan calls his boss home and he gets to sit in the Big Chair. Will he be even more addicted to imperial-style ceremonies and accoutrements than the Orange One?

[erronis]

14. As does Ka$h (oshkosh?)

I figger they better get it while they can. For those with only a half-of-a-wit, they have to know that dues will be paid.

[Lovie777]

2. Tax payer's money.....

Healthcare be damn.

[Prairie Gates]

3. Vance is a ridiculous clown and this motorcade is a clown show

But Milanese streets are not "tiny." Milano is a major urban center. Its streets are the same as those in New York, Philadelphia, or Washington DC.

The picture at the link shows Vance's motorcade on a wide street with a tram track down the middle of it.

[FakeNoose]

17. Not all the Olympic venues are in Milan though

I have been to some of those mountain villages in Northern Italy, and they're quaint and charming. But they aren't made for motorcade traffic, and Vance is just an asshole for doing this. He should have stayed home and watched it on TV.

[Prairie Gates]

21. The story is about Milano

It specifically describes Vance's meeting with Meloni in Milano.

for requiring a 100-car motorcade through narrow streets in Milan .... "D Vance went to meet Meloni in a 40-car motorcade full of Suburbans through the tiny streets of Milan

I'm actually replying to the text of the article in the OP.

That said, you're right that pretty much any of the other venue areas would make Vance's idiotic motorcade even more clownish than it already is in Milano. But the streets in Milano are not any narrower than any other major world city.

[Dave Bowman]

4. The clown seems to believe that he's very important.

[kacekwl]

5. As Hugh Grant said as PM in

Love Actually, I'm very busy and important. Vance really loves him some Vance.

[Beaverhausen]

6. Why the hell did they bring food...to Italy??? Where they have the best food in the world!

I was lucky enough to go there in August 2023. I had the best sandwich of my life in Milan and of course best pizza, pasta, and gelato in all the places we visited.

[underpants]

7. Maybe, like Trump, he thinks someone might poison him

or it could just be done grift.

[crazylikafox]

8. You're probably right. Poison

In his heart he knows everyone hates him.

[BidenRocks]

22. Hawk Ptuii

Enjoy lunch!

Another example of American excess!

[redstatebluegirl]

28. He's a hillbilly.

He will not eat anything that isn't fried and covered in gravy.

[SunSeeker]

9. It took 14 planes to bring over his motorcade?! What a boondoggle!

[Vinca]

10. I wonder how much this exercise in waste, fraud and abuse cost us taxpayers.

[Totally Tunsie]

11. ??? Was it a 40-car or 100-car motorcade?

Every article seems to throw out both numbers, often in the same paragraph. Which is true?

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.

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“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.

[Greg_In_SF]

12. Let's see the pictures

of these 14 planes, 20 cars, then 40 cars, and now 100 cars. I call bullshit.

[TheRickles]

16. There's a curbside video embedded in the linked article, but you can't really tell what's going on.

One overhead drone photo would've done the trick.

[haele]

19. Taking a stab at it here -

He's got a 40 vehicle motorcade for city driving and a 40 vehicle motorcade specifically for mountain roads.
There's 20 vehicles for support vehicles including 3 each catering trucks for both city and mountains (one for him, one vegetarian for her, and the canteen truck for drivers, Secret Service, and staff), two types of RVs for "resting", two Comms behicles a medical supply truck, two types of ambulances, four Sysco vans full of food supplies...and Seal Team 6.
Ridiculous.

[BidenRocks]

23. President Biden would consider where he was,

Grabbed his bike and pedaled to the meeting.
(Lose the toe clips)

Most of that motorcade could be replaced by drones.

[Nasruddin]

13. I can't wait

For this reincarnation of Domitian to ascend to the Imperial throne.

[Aviation Pro]

15. Who does the couch fucker think he is?

All that and a bag of chips? More like a pernicious bucket of warm spit.

[mtngirl47]

18. Food? Who is the idiot who takes food to Italy???

[róisín_dubh]

26. Beat me to it

Christ on a cracker, Italian food in Italy is arguably the best on earth.
He’s such a fucking chode

[Harker]

20. Waste. Fraud. Abuse.

[flvegan]

24. Taking American cars and food to Italy. *facepalm*

Borrow a Ferrari and pile on the pasta and pizza. JD "Bucket of Paste" Vance doing it wrong again.

[canetoad]

25. Yep

Taking food to Italy is like the old, "Coals to Newcastle".

[Jilly_in_VA]

27. He also damn near made Alyssa Liu late to her skate

For that alone he deserves to Have all the aire let out of ALL his tires---including that spare he's recently acquired around the midsection!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

29. Vance's motorcade nearly stopped this star from reaching the event