Second lady Usha Vance will lead presidential delegation at Special Olympics World Winter Games, Trump says

U.S. 2nd woman Usha Vance has been selected to pb the statesmanlike delegation to Italy for the 2025 Special Olympics World Winter Games, the Office of President Donald Trump announced Thursday.

Vance volition pb the delegation to Turin, Italy, the big metropolis for this year's Games. The opening ceremonial is scheduled for Friday.

Usha is simply a lawyer joined to Vice President JD Vance since 2014. They person 3 children.

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JD Vance, a U.S. legislator from Ohio and a 2024 Republican vice statesmanlike candidate, and woman Usha Vance basal connected signifier connected the past time of the 2024 Republican National Convention astatine the Fiserv Forum successful Milwaukee July 18, 2024. (Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)

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Usha sat adjacent to erstwhile precocious schoolhouse volleyball subordinate Payton McNabb during Trump's code to a associated league of Congress Tuesday night. McNabb told Fox News Digital she was "heartbroken" erstwhile she learned Trump's enforcement bid connected transgender athletes' information successful women’s and girls sports was not codified into instrumentality by the Senate.

Payton McNabb, left, claps arsenic 2nd woman Usha Vance watches during President Donald Trump's code to a associated league of Congress astatine the Capitol successful Washington Tuesday, March 4, 2025.  (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

"Last night, conscionable overall, the Democrat Party was truthful disrespectful," McNabb said successful notation to members of the enactment who were wearing pinkish during the associated league of Congress.

"And they didn't basal up for immoderate of the guests. They didn't basal up for DJ Daniel, who is the young lad who survived encephalon cancer. They didn't basal up for Laken Riley's family, whose girl virtually suffered a traumatic decease that should person ne'er happened. And each different impermanent that was determination had immoderate benignant of almighty story, and they didn't clap for immoderate of that."

Second woman Usha Vance attends President Donald Trump's code to a associated league of Congress successful the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol Tuesday, March 4, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

"So, it was heartbreaking, and honestly I privation I could accidental I was surprised, but I'm not," she concluded. 

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Other members of the statesmanlike delegation, according to The White House, are: 

Shawn Crowley, Chargé d’Affaires a.i., U.S. Embassy to Italy and San Marino; T.H. Trent Michael Morse, lawman adjunct to the president and lawman manager of statesmanlike personnel; Riley M. Barnes, elder bureau authoritative of the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, U.S. Department of State; Douglass Benning, consul general, U.S. Consulate Milan, Italy; Rachel Campos-Duffy, "Fox & Friends Weekend" big and woman of U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy; Boris Epshteyn, elder counsel and elder advisor to President Donald Trump; and Richard Walters, spouse astatine FGS Global.

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