US senator Alex Padilla criticizes ‘petty’ JD Vance for calling him ‘Jose’

<p>‘He knows my name,’ says California Democrat, as Newsom condemns US vice-president and challenges him to debate</p><p>JD Vance’s decision to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/20/jd-vance-los-angeles-ice-protests">refer</a> to California US senator Alex Padilla by the name of a terrorist conspirator showed how “unserious” the Trump administration is, the lawmaker has said of the vice-president.</p><p>“He knows my name – he knows my name,” Padilla <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/the-weekend/watch/-he-knows-my-name-sen-alex-padilla-reacts-to-jd-vance-calling-him-jose-during-la-visit-242029637991">told</a> MSNBC’s The Weekend on Saturday, 12 days after the FBI forcibly removed him from a 12 June news conference hosted by US homeland security secretary Kristi Noem amid anti-immigration and customs enforcement (Ice) protests in Los Angeles.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/22/alex-padilla-jd-vance">Continue reading...</a>