The White House described Trump’s news conference with Vice President JD Vance as a demonstration that the entire administration was on the same page about the war in Iran.
Reports are circulating that Vance was unenthusiastic about the war and was skeptical of the operation.
Vance hedged his support for the war by claiming that all the other presidents were stupid, but Trump is smart, so he’s sticking with Trump in this war.
The reality is that Vance needs Trump because he wants to one day sit in the big boy chair in the Oval Office, and he can’t get the Republican nomination without remaining Trump’s lackey.
The press conference was not about JD Vance, but about Donald Trump.
During some very unintentionally revealing answers, Trump showed the mentality that has led to failure in Iran.
Watch my video on how Trump’s Iran war failed below:
Trump demanded thanks from America’s allies for trying to drag them into a war they didn’t ask for:
I don’t expect to thank you, but they should thank us. Japan gets 95% China, 91%. Many of the countries, South Korea, get a huge percentage of their oil and their energy from the Strait, the Strait and, as they call it, the Strait, and they should not only be thanking us, they should be helping us. What surprises me is that they are not eager to help. But there are some countries that have disappointed me greatly, and I am the one who pushed them to pay 2 to 5% of GDP to NATO. And I get along well with those countries in NATO.
But I’ve always said: the problem with NATO is that we will always be there for them, but they will never be there for us.
This is problem #1. Trump has never tried to build a coalition of support for action against Iran. He simply assumed that America’s allies would go along with it.
They didn’t do that.
