- The Washington Times - Thursday, September 10, 2026

A protester interrupted Vice President J.D. Vance during his remarks at the Republican convention in Dallas, throwing a Mexican flag at the stage.

Mr. Vance called out to the protester.

“Well, my friend, if you love Mexico so much, get your a** over there,” the vice president said.



Mr. Vance later scolded Democrats, saying they had “just discovered the symbol of the far-left — an idiot waving … a Mexican flag at a protest.”

He said that the protester should have been waving an American flag.

“Now, we all know, of course, that as much as that person might wave around a foreign flag, but he’d much rather live in Dallas or in Cincinnati or in any one of our great cities than Mexico.”

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