Vice President J.D. Vance’s speech on February 14 at the Munich Security Conference—in which he criticized European nations for what he described as a “retreat” from free speech principles and an embrace of mass migration—drew disagreement and public rebukes from some foreign leaders,

Vice President of the USA, J.D. Vance, warns that America may withdraw troops from Germany if the country does not safeguard freedom of speech. During the CPAC conference in Washington, he argued that illegal immigration is the greatest threat to Europe.

Vice President J.D. Vance called Germany’s free speech restrictions “Orwellian” and said Monday that other European countries should join the U.S. in rejecting such laws.

The AfD’s appeal to Vance, Musk and others in President Trump’s orbit is its shared distrust of E.U. regulations, limits on speech as they apply to the far right, and, perhaps above all, the AfD’s signature opposition to immigration.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance has criticized Germany’s free speech laws during an appearance at a conservative gathering outside Washington.

Vance also gave a speech in Munich, hypocritically scolding Europe’s leaders for many actions Trump has engaged in.

Campaigning in Pennsylvania last September, JD Vance seemed to strike at an unlikely political foe: the besieged president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, who’d spent most of the previous two years being hailed by Western leaders as a hero.

Vance’s meeting—and Elon Musk’s earlier one, since he, too, is a member of our government, however shadily—is something much different. It’s ideologically motivated. Vance and Musk, and by extension their boss, President Donald Trump, like what AfD stands for, and they want the world to know they like it.

The video splices together the beginning and end of the chairman's speech. The chairman said the display of emotion was related to his retirement.

Vance was complaining about how, in Germany, mainstream political parties don’t work with their most extreme right-wing colleagues.

This may be the year the firewall collapses. The AfD is now polling at about 22 percent nationally and seems destined for a strong showing in Sunday’s federal parliamentary election. No other party will deign to form a coalition with it. But if the AfD performs well enough, it will be impossible to exclude altogether from decision making.

Vance did not have the diplomatic skills to meet with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz who condemned the speech along with most of the world.