ByZachary Folk,
Forbes Staff.
Vice President JD Vance brushed aside concerns over President Donald Trump’s comments about not thinking “about Americans’ financial situations” while negotiating with Iran—calling it a “misrepresentation of what the president said” and backing Trump’s goals of preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
When asked at a Wednesday news conference if he agrees with Trump’s statements on Tuesday, Vance said, “I don’t think the president said that—I think that’s a misrepresentation of what the president said.”
Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Trump said “I don’t think about Americans’ financial situations, I don’t think about anybody” when going into negotiations with Iran, and instead was only concerned with preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, even as inflation has increased and gas prices have soared as a result of the Iran war.
