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Vance’s X account deletes post recognizing Armenian genocide | CNN Politics

By Kit Maher
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PUBLISHED Feb 10, 2026, 12:28 PM ET

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Vice President JD Vance takes part in a wreath-laying ceremony during a visit to the Tsitsernakaberd Armenian Genocide Memorial, in Yerevan, Armenia, on February 10, 2026.

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Vice President JD Vance’s X account posted and then deleted a recognition of the Armenian genocide after he paid his respects at a memorial in the country on Tuesday.

The original post from the vice president’s account — which said Vance and second lady Usha Vance attended a wreath-laying ceremony “to honor the victims of the 1915 Armenian genocide” — broke from Trump administration policy, which does not use the word “genocide” to refer to the systematic killing and deportation of Armenians in what is now Turkey.

Except for former President Joe Biden, US presidents have avoided that term for fear of damaging ties with Turkey, a key regional ally, which is currently playing a mediating role between the Trump administration and Iran.

An official with the vice president sought to blame the post on staff who are not part of the delegation traveling with Vance.

The Armenian National Committee of America called the deletion “a denialist action consistent with President Trump’s shameful retreat from honest American remembrance of a crime recognized by all 50 states, the US Congress, the White House, and more than a dozen of our NATO allies.”

Vance — the first sitting US vice president or president to visit the country — told reporters the Armenians asked him to visit the site, calling the massacre “a very terrible thing that happened a little over 100 years ago.”

A Vance spokesperson told CNN: “This is an account managed by staff that primarily exists to share photos and videos of the Vice President’s activities. For the Vice President’s views on the substance of the question, I refer you to the comments he made earlier on the tarmac in response to the pool’s question.”

Vance said he visited the site “out of a sign of respect, both for the victims, but also for the Armenian government.”

“Obviously, I’m the first vice president to ever visit Armenia. They asked us to visit the site. Obviously, it’s a very terrible thing that happened a little over 100 years ago, and something that was just very, very important to them culturally,” said Vance, who added he also plans to visit important sites in Azerbaijan.

Vice President JD Vance and second lady Usha Vance pay tribute at the eternal flame during a visit to the Tsitsernakaberd Armenian Genocide Memorial in Yerevan, Armenia, on February 10, 2026.

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The White House’s rapid response X account posted — but later deleted —Vance’s comments on visiting the memorial. CNN has reached out to the White House for comment.

The official VP account later reposted a post from Vance press secretary Taylor Van Kirk that showed the second couple at the wreath-laying and included a photo of Vance’s handwritten note in a guest book.

“In solemn remembrance of the lives lost, we honor the resilience and enduring spirit of the Armenian people,” the vice president wrote.

The number of Armenians killed has been a major point of contention. Estimates range from 300,000 to 2 million deaths between 1914 and 1923, with not all of the victims in the Ottoman Empire. But most estimates — including one of 800,000 between 1915 and 1918, made by Ottoman authorities themselves — fall between 600,000 and 1.5 million.

Whether due to killings or forced deportation, the number of Armenians living in Turkey fell from 2 million in 1914 to under 400,000 by 1922.

In 2021, Biden became the first US president to officially recognize the massacre as a genocide, with a statement marking its anniversary that said, “Each year on this day, we remember the lives of all those who died in the Ottoman-era Armenian genocide and recommit ourselves to preventing such an atrocity from ever again occurring.” The statement was welcomed by Armenia but condemned by Turkey, which maintains the killings were part of war time and that there were losses on both sides.

Last year, the Trump administration issued a statement on April 24 commemorating “Meds Yeghern,” an Armenian term, without translating it into English as genocide.

“Beginning in 1915, one and a half million Armenians were exiled and marched to their deaths in the final years of the Ottoman Empire. On this Day of Remembrance, we again join the Great Armenian Community in America, and around the World, in mourning the many lives that were lost,” the statement said.

During the first Trump administration, the White House asked Republican senators to block the unanimous consent request on a resolution recognizing the mass killings of Armenians from 1915 to 1923 as genocide, on the grounds that it could undercut negotiations with Turkey. The resolution passed the House and Senate in 2019.

CNN’s Kevin Liptak contributed to this report.

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