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English Get Testy About JD Vance’s Vacation

August 14, 2025 at 6:31 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“People in this bucolic corner of England were already a bit testy about hordes of visiting Americans in recent years,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“Then the most high-profile one so far arrived for a family holiday: Vice President JD Vance.”

“For the past few days, residents of the Cotswolds have been subjected to the traveling circus that accompanies a senior visitor from the White House. Long convoys of giant SUVs with tinted windows guarded by a police escort wend past tiny roads and quaint limestone houses. Helicopters hover overhead. Men with earpieces stand near entrances to small walking paths where locals normally wander next to fields.”

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