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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Andrew Roth in Washington

Vance’s bad week: vice-president risks becoming face of two Trump foreign policy failures

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JD Vance speaks to the media in Budapest before boarding Air Force Two to return to Washington. Photograph: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

Shortly before JD Vance’s ill-fated week crisscrossing the world, Donald Trump asked him during a private Easter brunch about how the Iran negotiations were shaping up. “If it doesn’t happen, I’m blaming JD Vance,” Trump said to laughs in the room. “If it does happen, I’m taking full credit.”

The joke at Vance’s expense contained an unfortunate nugget of truth: this is not an administration that rewards failure.

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