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Second lady Usha Vance has been appointed to lead the presidential delegation to Italy for the 2025 Special Olympics World Winter Games, the Office of President Donald Trump announced on Thursday.
Vance will head the delegation to Turin, Italy, the host city for this year’s Games, with the opening ceremony scheduled for Friday.
Usha, a lawyer, has been married to Vice President JD Vance since 2014, and the couple has three children.
Usha Vance sat next to former high school volleyball player Payton McNabb during Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night. McNabb told Fox News Digital that she was “heartbroken” when she learned that Trump’s executive order on transgender athletes’ participation in women’s and girls’ sports was not codified into law by the Senate.
“Last night, just overall, the Democrat Party was so disrespectful,” McNabb said in reference to members of the party wore pink and displayed signs during the joint session of Congress.
“And they didn’t stand up for any of the guests. They didn’t stand up for DJ Daniel, who is the young boy who survived brain cancer. They didn’t stand up for Laken Riley’s family, whose daughter literally suffered a traumatic death that should have never happened. And every other guest that was there had some sort of powerful story, and they didn’t clap for any of that,” she added.
“So, it was heartbreaking, and honestly I wish I could say I was surprised, but I’m not,” she concluded.
Fox added:
Other members of the presidential delegation, according to The White House, are:
Shawn Crowley, Chargé d’Affaires a.i., U.S. Embassy to Italy and San Marino; T.H. Trent Michael Morse, deputy assistant to the president and deputy director of presidential personnel; Riley M. Barnes, senior bureau official of the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, U.S. Department of State; Douglass Benning, consul general, U.S. Consulate Milan, Italy; Rachel Campos-Duffy, “Fox & Friends Weekend” host and wife of U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy; Boris Epshteyn, senior counsel and senior advisor to President Donald Trump; and Richard Walters, partner at FGS Global.
Members of the left-wing legacy media were also chastised for some of their comments following Trump’s speech, including MSNBC host Nicole Wallace who immediately came under withering fire online over what she said about one of his guests.
During his speech, Trump recognized Daniel, a 13-year-old cancer survivor who he made an honorary U.S. Secret Service agent to thunderous applause from Republicans, as Democrats chose to remain seated and refused even to clap for the youngster.
After co-host Rachel Maddow claimed that Trump was politicizing the youngster’s recovery, Wallace made her remarks.
“I think this was a lesson in finding one thing that you let yourself feel,” Wallace said, also responding to DJ’s viral moment during Trump’s speech. “And I let myself feel joy about DJ, and I hope he’s alive for another, you know, 95 years and I hope he lives the life he wants to live. He wants to be a cop. He knows what he wants to do, and maybe when you have childhood cancer, that crystallizes for you.”
“I hope he has a long life as a law enforcement officer,” she said, before adding this horrendous remark: “But I hope he never has to defend the United States Capitol against Donald Trump’s supporters, and if he does, I hope he isn’t one of the six who loses his life to suicide, and I hope he isn’t one who has to testify against the people who carried out acts of seditious conspiracy and then lived to see Donald Trump pardon those people.”
The comment drew immediate pushback online, with most tearing into Wallace.