White House deletes JD Vance’s social media post referring to Armenian genocide
US vice-president’s post marks first time Trump administration used the word to describe the massacresThe White House has deleted a social media post in which the vice-president, JD Vance, referred...
By Ashifa Kassam, European Community affairs correspondent · The Guardian World
US vice-president’s post marks first time Trump administration used the word to describe the massacres The White House has deleted a social media post in which the vice-president, JD Vance , referred to the Armenian genocide , prompting anger from members of the Armenian diaspora as well as opposition politicians across the US. The post was made during Vance’s two-day trip to Armenia to mark a visit by Vance and his wife, Usha Vance, to a memorial for the up to 1.5 million Armenians killed by Ottoman troops more than a century ago. The now-deleted post on Vance’s official Twitter/X account said he was visiting the memorial to honour “the victims of the Armenian genocide”. Continue reading...