US Vice President JD Vance meets with Britain's Foreign Secretary David Lammy at Chevening House in Kent, England, Friday, Aug. 8, 2025.

Vice President JD Vance is being slammed on social media as a “hypocrite,” as an old clip of him vowing to defend free speech has resurfaced amid ABC’s suspension of Jimmy Kimmel Live! — which prompted celebrations by Vance and President Donald Trump.

“And just as the Biden administration seemed desperate to silence people for speaking their minds, so the Trump administration will do precisely the opposite, and I hope that we can work together on that,” Vance said at the Munich Security Conference in February.

“In Washington, there is a new sheriff in town,” he continued at the time. “And under Donald Trump’s leadership, we may disagree with your views, but we will fight to defend your right to offer it in the public square, agree or disagree.”

Critics on social media have highlighted the clip following Kimmel’s show being pulled.

“Unless you are Jimmy Kimmel. Or anyone else who disagrees with us,” one user wrote Thursday on X, formerly Twitter,

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