Democrats taunted Donald Trump with messages projected on Trump Tower in New York City ahead of Tuesdays vice presidential debate .

Vance on Trump: What an idiot, one of the projections says.

Other messages read Project 2025 HQ, Go Coach Walz! and Trump is a chicken.

In an October 2016 tweet , JD Vance wrote My god what an idiot about Trump. That was one of many scathing critiques he made of Trump other included noxious, reprehensible and unfit before he entered Republican politics and changed his tune.

Vance, now the junior U.S. senator from Ohio and former President Trumps running mate in the 2024 election, has since said he regrets what he said about Trump.