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 regarding the war in Iran.
Reports circulated that Vance was not enthusiastic about the war and was described as skeptical of the operation.
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Vance hid his support for the war by saying all other presidents were stupid, but Trump is smart, so he sticks with Trump in this war.
The reality is that Vance needs Trump because he wants to sit in the big boy chair in the Oval Office one day, and he can’t get the Republican nomination without continuing to be Trump’s lackey.
The press conference was not about JD Vance, but about Donald Trump.
In some very unintentionally revealing responses, Trump demonstrated the mindset that led to Iran’s failure.
Please watch my video below on Trump’s failed war in Iran:
Trump demanded thanks from US allies for trying to drag them into a war they did not ask for:
I don’t expect to thank you, but they should thank us. Japan gets 95%. China, 91%. Many countries, including South Korea, get a huge percentage of their oil and therefore their energy from the straits, straits and/or as they call it, strait and they should not only thank us, they should help us. What surprises me is that they are not eager to help. But there are countries that disappointed me a lot, and it was I who made them pay 2 to 5% of their GDP to NATO. And I get along very well with these NATO countries.
But I’ve always said that 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 never attempted to build a coalition in support of action against Iran. He simply assumed that America’s allies would accept it.
This is not the case.