'Petty and unserious' Vance complaints slapped aside by Padilla after LA visit
During an appearance on MSNBC's "The Weekend" on Saturday, Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) didn't seem to have any interest or respect for Vice President J.D. Vance who made a brief stopover in Los Angeles on Friday to attempt to defend Donald Trump deploying the military to put down unrest that is almost nonexistent.
Speaking with reporters, Vance decided to call the California lawmaker "José Padilla" and stated he had hoped the lawmaker "would be here to ask a question."
"But, unfortunately, I guess he decided not to show up because there wasn’t the theater, and that’s all it is. It’s pure political theater. These guys show up. They want to be captured on camera doing something," the vice president complained in front of the cameras.
Given a chance to respond to the deliberate misnaming on MSNBC, since the two served in the Senate together, Padilla told the hosts, "He knows my name. Look, sadly it’s just an indicator of how petty and unserious this administration is. He’s the vice president of the United States. You’d think he’d take the situation in Los Angeles more seriously.”
"You know, you'd think maybe he'd take a moment to talk to some of the families who have been impacted, have been terrorized to feel what's really going on on the ground," he pointed out. "And you saw him shaking hands with Marines, but did he listen to the Marines? Because we have, you know, report after report of the Marines, so many of the Marines themselves that don't want to be there. That's not why they enlisted ."
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