Vice President JD Vance argued that President Donald Trump’s recent bombing of Iran is different from past “entanglements in the Middle East” because Vance believes Trump is smart.
Vance’s remarks came on NBC’s ‘Meet the Press with Kristen Welker’ on Sunday as he defended Trump’s unilateral decision to insert the U.S. in Israel’s war on Iran, a move that numerous lawmakers have condemned or called unconstitutional.
“First of all, the president has clear authority to act to prevent proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. And the worst weapon of mass destruction of them all is nuclear. The idea that this was outside of presidential authority, I think any real serious legal person would tell you that’s not true,” Vance told Welker.
He added: “I certainly empathize with Americans who are exhausted after 25 years of foreign entanglements in the Middle East. I understand the concern. But the difference is that back then, we had dumb presidents, and now we have a president who actually knows how to accomplish America’s national security objectives. So this is not going to be some long, drawn-out thing. We’ve got in. We’ve done the job of setting their nuclear program back. We’re going to now work to permanently dismantle that nuclear program over the coming years. And that is what the president has set out to do.”
