Hot off the heels of his ick-producing performance on The View earlier this week, JD Vance held a press briefing Thursday in response to blowback surrounding the recently signed deal with Iran. It’s a deal that does some truly stunning things: opens up the Strait of Hormuz (that was closed because of the US launching a war with Iran), thus stabilizing the global economy (that was destabilized because of the US launching a war with Iran), while promising that the U.S. and “regional partners” will draw up a $300 billion reconstruction plan (to rebuild everything Trump bombed in Iran), while lifting US sanctions on Iran, and affirming that Iran won’t build a nuclear weapon (something we already had a deal in place about before Trump tore it up.)
It’s pretty clear that even Donald Trump himself realizes how underwhelming it all is. He spent almost an hour defending it Wednesday to the world in his G7 closing speech, and on the same day he “joked” that if it all goes wrong, he’ll blame Vance.
