The American second lady Usha Vance has been selected to lead the presidential delegation to Italy before 2025 Special Olympics World Winter GamesPresident Donald Trump’s office announced on Thursday.
Vance will lead the delegation to Turin, Italy, the host city for this year’s games. The opening ceremony is planned for Friday.
Usha is a lawyer married to Vice President JD Vance Since 2014. They have three children.
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JD Vance, an American senator from Ohio and a Republican Vice -presidential candidate from 2024, and Vrouw Usha Vance are on stage on the last day of the Republican National Convention of 2024 at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee on July 18, 2024. (Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty images)
USSA sat next to the former high school volleyball player Payton McNabb during the address of Trump into a joint session of the congress on Tuesday evening. Mcnabb told Fox News Digital She was “deeply sad” when she was not codified by the Senate on the participation of transgender athletes in women’s and girls sports by the Senate.

Payton Mcnabb, left, folds while Second Lady Usha Vance looks during the speech by President Donald Trump a joint conference session in the Capitool in Washington Tuesday 4 March 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
“Last night, in general, the Democratic party was so disrespectful,” McNabb said in reference to members of the party who wore pink during the joint session of the congress.
“And they did not stand up for one of the guests. They did not stand up for DJ Daniel, who was the young boy who survived brain cancer. They did not stand up for Laaken Riley’s family, whose daughter literally suffered a traumatic death that never should have happened. And every other guest who was there had a kind of powerful story, and she didn’t have something for that.”

Second Lady Usha Vance attends the address of President Donald Trump into a joint session of the congress in the living room of the US Capitol Tuesday 4 March 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
“So it was heartbreaking, and to be honest I wanted me to say that I was surprised, but I am not,” she concluded.
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Other members of the presidential delegation, according to The White HouseAre:
Shawn Crowley, Chargé d’Affaires Ai, American embassy to Italy and San Marino; Thrent Michael Morse, vice -assistant of the president and deputy director of presidential staff; Riley M. Barnes, higher official of the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, US Department of State; Douglass Benning, Consul General, American consulate Milan, Italy; Rachel Campos-Duffy, “Fox & Friends Weekend” Host and wife of the American Minister of Transport Sean Duffy; Boris Epsshteyn, senior advisor and senior adviser to President Donald Trump; and Richard Walters, partner at FGS Global.
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