Trump’s 8-Word Reply To JD Vance’s Iran War Diss Called A ‘Striking Rebuke’

Here’s hoping that Vice President JD Vance was sitting down when he heard this.

President Donald Trump used just eight words to take a swipe at Vance for publicly blaming the GOP’s disastrous midterm results on the Iran war.

“A lot of people didn’t like his comments,” Trump told reporters Sunday evening.

“But not me,” Trump quickly added in response to a question about whether Vance’s remark affected their relationship.

“He was right, other than one thing,” Trump said. “He should have made one other statement, one statement that I think is very important — ‘If you had it to do again, would you do it again? The answer is yes.’ I can tell you, if I had it to do it again, this historically, for history, will go down as one of the best things we ever did.”

Last week, just a day after midterm elections, the vice president took to Twitter to publish a lengthy post in which he wrote: “The reason we lost is the war.”

The message was reposted by Donald Trump Jr., the president’s eldest son, who wrote “Every word of this is [100 emoji].”

“You already see how this could be potentially dividing some of the president’s advisers,” Liptak added of the conflict in Iran. “Pete Hegseth, who has been a proponent of the Iran war, now the target of congressional lawmakers that impeachment proceedings could potentially begin as early as next week.”

Liptak said that the “real fear” among White House officials is that Republicans — especially those who lost their races — “now feel like they have nothing to lose” and will be “much less loyal to President Trump, potentially, as they face down this political reckoning.”

Trump may be preparing for this as well. After the midterm elections, the president rewarded his longtime adviser and political attack dog Stephen Miller by making him his new chief of staff.

Miller’s promotion, Liptak said, signals “that the president is looking to put some of these hardliners into the senior-most positions in the West Wing, showing no sign that he is looking for conciliation or compromise as Democrats take over their majorities in Congress.”

Liptak added, “It is certainly setting up to be a combative end to the Trump era in a lot of ways. The president making clear that he is not going to leave the stage quietly. Setting up what I think will be quite a volatile phase of his administration.”