Stephen Miller blasts ‘stupid white hippies’ during Union Station visit with Vance and Hegseth

But their presence at the station sparked a protest, with activists yelling, “Free D.C.!” Miller lambasted the shouting protesters as out-of-touch white hippies who don’t represent the district’s black population.

“All these demonstrators that you’ve seen out here in recent days, all of these elderly white hippies, they’re not part of the city, and never have been,” Miller said before noting the district’s overwhelmingly black population. “This is not a city that has had any safety for its black citizens for generations, and President Trump is the one who is fixing that with the support of the Metropolitan Police Department, the support of the National Guard, and our federal law enforcement officers.”

Miller continued, “So we’re going to ignore these stupid white hippies that all need to go home and take a nap because they’re all over 90 years old, and we’re going to get back to the business of protecting the American people and the citizens of Washington, D.C.”

Echoing Miller’s criticisms against white protesters, Vance told the press: “It’s kind of bizarre that we have a bunch of old, primarily white people who are out there protesting the policies that keep people safe when they’ve never felt danger in their entire lives.”

The three men brought the National Guard members burgers from Shake Shack to thank them for their work.

“You guys bust your ass all day and we give you hamburgers — not a fair trade, but we’re grateful for everything you do,” Vance said.

At times, comments from the men to the press were blocked out by the protesters heckling them and denouncing Trump’s unprecedented federalization of the district’s police force.

“We don’t have to live like this. We do not have to allow our cities to be taken over by violence, ordered by chaos. You can actually do stuff,” Vance told reporters in defense of the Trump administration’s actions.

“You can actually bring law and order to communities. You just gotta have the political willpower to do it,” Vance continued. “And I think you can hear these guys outside here, screaming at us. Of course, these are a bunch of crazy protesters.”

The vice president also claimed Union Station is a high-crime area that needed the National Guard’s presence.

“You have vagrants, you have drug addicts, you have the chronically homeless. You have the mentally ill who harass, who threaten violence, who attack families, and they’ve done it for far too long,” Vance said. “This should be a monument to American greatness.”

Despite polling showing that Washington residents are opposed to the military presence, Vance said he was “highly skeptical that a majority of D.C. residents don’t want their city … to have better public safety and more reasonable safety standards within Washington, D.C.”

Vance, however, punted on whether the administration would extend the 30-day takeover of Washington’s police force.

“We’ll ultimately let the president of the United States determine where we are after 30 days of this emergency order,” Vance said when asked by a reporter. “I think that we’re going to make a lot of progress over the next 20 days. I think we’re nine days into this thing.”

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“But if the president of the United States thinks that he has to extend his order to ensure that people have access to public safety, then that’s exactly what he’ll do,” he continued. “If he thinks he doesn’t have to do that, obviously he’ll make that determination.”

After addressing reporters, Vance, Hegseth, and Miller had lunch at Shake Shack with the National Guard members.