Days after President Donald Trump doubled down on his claim not to be concerned about Americans’ financial well-being relative to the Iran war, Vice President JD Vance tried to suggest that Trump had never said anything of the sort in a terse exchange with CNN’s chief White House correspondent on Tuesday.
Vance was at the White House briefing room lectern as part of a rotating cast of top administration officials filling in for Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt while she is on maternity leave, when CNN’s Kaitlan Collins pressed him on his previous denial that Trump had uttered the words “I don't think about Americans’ financial situation” — despite that utterance to reporters having been nationally broadcast.
