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JD Vance Rants About Thanksgiving Turkey In Front Of American Troops

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JD Vance decided the day beforeThanksgiving was a perfect time to tell the world his culinary preferences ― andturkey farmers probably won’t be pleased.

The vice president visited Fort Campbellon the Kentucky-Tennessee border on Wednesday to meet members of the military and serve them an early holiday meal with the help of his wife, Usha, daughter Mirabel, and sons Ewan and Vivek.

At one point, Vance got up to make a few remarks after Kid Rock introduced him as “someone I do hope to call our 48th president one day.”

Although most of Vance’s remarks contained the typical patriotic fare, he did take issue with the dish that is famously the centerpiece of most Americans’ Thanksgiving meals: turkey.

“Thanksgiving, what we celebrate tomorrow, that is a uniquely American thing,” he added, not quite accurately. “That’s why, for example, we have, you know, turkey.”

“Think about turkey,” he........

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