The White House on Tuesday deleted a social media post from Vice President JD Vance’s account that commemorated massacres of Armenians as a “genocide,” saying the message, which contradicts the stance of U.S.-allied Turkey, was posted in error.
Vance, who was on a two-day trip to Armenia, visited the Tsitsernakaberd Armenian Genocide Memorial in the capital Yerevan during the first visit by a U.S. vice president to the South Caucasus republic.
Vance’s official account on X described the visit as intended “to honor the victims of the 1915 Armenian genocide,” and then deleted the post. A Vance aide who declined to be named said the message was posted in error by staff who were not part of the traveling delegation.
The incident marked the second time in days that the Trump administration has deleted a social media post. Late last week, the White House defended, and then deleted, a post to President Donald Trump’s Truth Social account that included a racist depiction of former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama as apes. Trump later told reporters he had not watched the entire video before a White House aide posted it to his account.