Vance’s X Account Deletes Post About Armenian Genocide

by Dave DeCamp
February 10, 2026

Trump reversed Biden’s policy of recognizing the genocide to placate Turkey

Vice President JD Vance’s X account posted a tweet on Tuesday mentioning the Armenian genocide and quickly deleted it as the Trump administration has reversed the Biden administration’s policy of recognizing the Ottoman Empire’s systematic mass killing of Armenian Christians during World War I as genocide.

Featured Image: 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. Levin Lamarque/Pool/AFP/Getty Images

The now-deleted post said that Vance attended a “wreath laying ceremony at the Armenian Genocide Memorial to honor the victims of the 1915 Armenian Genocide,” which he visited on his last day in Armenia, a trip that made him the first US vice president to visit the country. The Trump administration’s Rapid Response 47 account also deleted a similar post.

While he was at the memorial, Vance was asked whether he was “recognizing” the genocide but avoided using the term, saying he was there to pay his “respects” at the invitation of his Armenian Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan.

“They said this is a very important site for us, and obviously I’m the first (US) vice president to ever visit Armenia,” he said, according to The Associated Press. “They asked us to visit the site. Obviously, it’s a very terrible thing that happened a little over a hundred years ago, and something that’s very, very important to them culturally.”

A Vance spokesperson speaking to CNN appeared to blame a staffer for the post. “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,” the spokesperson said.

President Biden became the first US president to recognize the Armenian genocide when, in 2021, he issued a statement on Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, which is observed on April 24, using that language.

“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,” Biden said. “Beginning on April 24, 1915, with the arrest of Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople by Ottoman authorities, one and a half million Armenians were deported, massacred, or marched to their deaths in a campaign of extermination.”

On April 24, 2025, President Trump issued a statement on Armenian Remembrance Day, and the term genocide was notably absent, seen as an effort to placate the Turkish government, which denies that the Ottomans committed genocide. “Today we commemorate the Meds Yeghern, and honor the memories of those wonderful souls who suffered in one of the worst disasters of the 20th Century,” he said.

After Vance’s account deleted the tweet, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked about the administration’s policy regarding the Armenian genocide and referenced Trump’s previous statement while avoiding using the term.

The Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) strongly condemned the Trump administration’s refusal to recognize the Armenian genocide and also criticized Vance for not addressing Pashinyan’s crackdown on the Armenian Apostolic Church, not meeting with Armenians ethnically cleansed from Nagorno-Karabakh, also known as Artsakh, by Azerbaijan’s military offensive, and several other issues.

“Vice-President JD Vance’s February 2026 visit to Armenia sent six dangerous signals to Armenian and allied American voters – all dramatically compounded by the scandal over his disgraceful decision to delete his own post about visiting the Armenian Genocide Memorial,” the ANCA said.

After visiting Armenia, Vance travelled to Azerbaijan, where he signed a deal with President Ilham Aliyev meant to advance a Trump-brokered deal between the two countries, under which the US will gain long-term economic control of the Zangezur corridor, a strip of land that will go through Armenia’s territory and connect Azerbaijan with its exclave, known as Nakhchivan. The ANCA has been critical of the deal since it doesn’t involve a right of return for the more than 100,000 Armenians cleansed from Artsakh.
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