[Mainstream News] Guests at a downtown Minneapolis hotel spent a brutal winter night listening to drums, clanging pots, and blaring instruments as a group of left-wing protesters tried to keep Vice President JD Vance awake inside — except he wasn’t there.
In temperatures plunging to minus 15 degrees, with windchills even colder, demonstrators gathered outside the hotel late Tuesday, convinced Vance was upstairs after a day of meetings in the Twin Cities. They pounded away for hours, turning the sidewalk into a protest stage and the hotel into collateral damage. Social media quickly captured the scene. "Libs in Minneapolis are currently standing outside a hotel in -15 degree weather banging pots and playing instruments to keep JD Vance from sleeping inside his hotel," conservative commentator Johnny MAGA wrote. "Little do they know, JD Vance landed back in D.C. five hours ago."
The protest was sparked by Vance’s visit earlier that day to rebut a viral claim that ICE used a five-year-old boy as "bait" to arrest his illegal alien father. Federal officials said the story was false: when agents arrived, the father fled and abandoned the child. That clarification didn’t slow the outrage. By nightfall, activists were mobilized, armed with bad information and the wrong address.
Observers openly mocked the scene. "Imagine putting your lips on a brass trombone in -15 degree weather to wake up J.D. Vance. Only to find out he’s not there," one user wrote. Others wondered who fed the group faulty intelligence in the first place, as the protest unraveled in real time. |