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.

In April 1928, Joseph Goebbels, later the Third Reich’s chief propagandist, wrote a newspaper essay addressing the question of why the National Socialists, despite being an “anti-parliamentarian party,” would nonetheless compete in that May’s parliamentary elections.

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.

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,

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

J.D. Vance faced scathing ridicule from his Ohio hometown newspaper, which mocked his role in the "Trump-Musk administration," slammed his foreign policy fumbles, and labeled his political ambitions as "juvenile cringe.

J. D. Vance offended European colleagues on Friday by publicly doubting that they are champions of democracy. Some of the examples he cited were spurious — but the EU establishment’s shocked reaction itself spoke to their unreflective groupthink.

Vice President J.D. Vance on Thursday warned that the greatest threat to the U.S. and Europe is the flood of illegal immigrants and attempts to snuff out opposition to it.

Vice President J D Vance said he believes mainstream culture in the U S is attacking masculinity and, as a result, is creating large numbers of androgynous idiots