We used to have vice presidents who presidents really enjoyed hanging out to dry, and come to think of it we still do
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Well, that didn’t take long:
Are you surprised? If you’re surprised, frankly, you’re a fool. You understand nothing about politics and international affairs, and you bought into obviously dishonest propaganda about who Donald Trump is.
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This brings us back to the core of this—the big lie that Trump and his sycophants circulated during last year’s campaign that Trump was the antiwar candidate. Late last October, making the rounds of the Sunday shows, JD Vance touted Trump as the “candidate of peace.” A speaker at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally put it even more bluntly: “A vote for Kamala Harris is a vote for Dick Cheney, and it’s a vote for war, more war, likely World War III, and nuclear war. A vote for Donald Trump is a vote for a man who wants to end wars, not start them.”
That, interestingly enough, was Tulsi Gabbard—the current director of national intelligence whom Trump dissed more rudely last week than I’ve ever seen a president do toward a high-level appointee. Granted, she invited it to some extent, with that ill-advised video she made. But we shouldn’t forget: Gabbard was saying not what she believed, but what U.S. intelligence found—that Iran was not close to nuclear weapons capability. Trump chose to believe Netanyahu over his own intelligence services.
This is your “peace president.” He tore up a painstakingly negotiated settlement that was working and whose demise, thanks to Trump, led to Iran getting back into the game of nuclear enrichment. Then—to his partial credit—he seemed to be involved in serious negotiations of his own. But then Netanyahu moved his queen aggressively across the board, and Trump didn’t want to be stuck in back just playing around with pawns.