As three of the most powerful men in the world attempted to seize yet another media moment broadcasting the White House’s crackdown on crime in Washington, protesters in the station drowned them out.

Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth received a frosty reception in Washington, D.C.’s Union Station on Wednesday, shortly after the Trump administration launched a federal takeover of the capital.

Indignation’s capital: Vice President JD Vance was booed and heckled at Union Station ... for National Guard troops at Shake Shack. Chants of “Free DC” “drowned out much of what Vance, Hegseth and Miller said as they tried to speak to reporters.”

Vice President JD Vance discusses his visit to Union State in DC, stopping crime, bringing peace to Ukraine, building the economy, and third-party politics on "The Ingraham Angle" with host Laura Ingraham on the FOX News Channel.

Trump administration officials led by JD Vance fired back at protests targeting the federal takeover of D.C. during a wild scene at Union Station.