Governor Gavin Newsom took a swipe at Vice President JD Vance on Saturday after learning that Vance and his family were enjoying a trip to Disneyland, referencing recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids in California and other states.
Newsom, broadly discussed as a potential presidential candidate for the Democrats in 2028, responded to a post showing the vice president and his family smiling as they walked around &#8220;Bayou Country&#8221; at Disneyland — and he added his own comment: &#8220;Hope you enjoy your family time, @JDVance. The families you’re tearing apart certainly won’t.&#8221;
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Hope you enjoy your family time, <a href="https://twitter.com/JDVance?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JDVance</a>. The families you’re tearing apart certainly won’t. <a href="https://t.co/GjvIUg8I2B">https://t.co/GjvIUg8I2B</a>
— Governor Gavin Newsom (@CAgovernor) <a href="https://twitter.com/CAgovernor/status/1944155806079042021?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 12, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Critics were quick to challenge Newsom&#8217;s assessment, however, with a number pointing out that California law allows the state to tear apart families if parents do not accept their child&#8217;s chosen gender identity.
&#8220;In California it is completely legal for child protective services to tear a family apart if they don’t believe their child is transgender. I’ve met families that have had this happen,&#8221; detransitioner and activist Chloe Cole posted.
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In California it is completely legal for child protective services to tear a family apart if they don’t believe their child is transgender.
I’ve met families that have had this happen. <a href="https://t.co/dlHxHCgM8y">https://t.co/dlHxHCgM8y</a>
— Chloe Cole ⭐️ (@ChoooCole) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChoooCole/status/1944459241873629656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 13, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Your state takes children away from their parents if they refuse to buy into transgender madness You actually have a law on the books that you signed, that says that if a child in another state wants surgery that will sterilize that child, and the parents object, that all they have to do is run away from home and then they can go in front of a judge and get the right to sterilize themselves. You don’t care about tearing families apart. You’re perfectly fine with it for the &#8216;right&#8217; cause,&#8221; Aaron Walker posted.
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Your state takes children away from their parents if they refuse to buy into transgender madness
You actually have a law on the books that you signed, that says that if a child in another state wants surgery that will sterilize that child, and the parents object, that all they… <a href="https://t.co/ykr5UFFItY">https://t.co/ykr5UFFItY</a>
— (((Aaron Walker))) (@AaronWorthing) <a href="https://twitter.com/AaronWorthing/status/1944461712771465508?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 13, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The governor who violated his own rules about eating out during the pandemic by feasting at the &#8216;French Laundry&#8217; lectures the VP about a perfectly lawful visit to Disneyland. Newsom’s petty hypocrisy knows no bounds,&#8221; Fox Business&#8217; David Asman added.
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The governor who violated his own rules about eating out during the pandemic by feasting at the “French Laundry” lectures the VP about a perfectly lawful visit to Disneyland. Newsom’s petty hypocrisy knows no bounds. <a href="https://t.co/3iP566dTNV">https://t.co/3iP566dTNV</a>
— David Asman (@DavidAsmanfox) <a href="https://twitter.com/DavidAsmanfox/status/1944248718301032492?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 13, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Every person who breaks Americas laws are separated from there families while detained. Some for hours, some for days, some for decades. The onus is on the lawbreakers not law abiding citizens going about their day,&#8221; another reasonably pointed out.
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Every person who breaks Americas laws are separated from there families while detained. Some for hours, some for days, some for decades. The onus is on the lawbreakers not law abiding citizens going about their day. <a href="https://t.co/kpKqw8AHEg">https://t.co/kpKqw8AHEg</a>
— Rob O&#8217;Donnell (@odonnell_r) <a href="https://twitter.com/odonnell_r/status/1944425124309918004?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 13, 2025</a></blockquote>
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But it was Vance himself who had the last laugh, saying simply, &#8220;Had a great time, thanks.&#8221;
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Had a great time, thanks <a href="https://t.co/dKKA76mqhd">https://t.co/dKKA76mqhd</a>
— JD Vance (@JDVance) <a href="https://twitter.com/JDVance/status/1944433280041808120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 13, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Speaking to attendees at the Claremont Institute over the weekend, Vice President JD Vance took aim at New York Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, explaining that he embodied all the contradictions within the American Left.
Referring to Mamdani as a “33-year-old communist running an insurgent campaign,” Vance posited that Mamdani’s victory in the Democratic mayoral primary revealed “interesting threads&#8221; that were &#8220;reflective of where the broader American Left is at this moment in time.”
Vance spoke of how President Donald Trump’s victory represented a “broad working-and-middle-class coalition,” while Mamdani’s coalition was “almost the inverse of that.”
Vance pointed out that Mamdani “won high-income and college-educated New Yorkers, and especially both young, highly educated New Yorkers, but he was weakest among black voters and weakest among those without a college degree.” He added that Mamdani “did particularly well in the Bangladeshi areas of New York, but he did particularly poorly with non-Bangladeshi Asian immigrants, particularly Chinese-Americans.”
“His victory was the product of a lot of young people who live reasonably comfortable lives, but see that their elite degrees aren’t really delivering what they expected, and so their own prospects with all the college debt may not in fact be greater than those of their parents,” he said.
“We have to be honest about where his coalition is,” Vance opined. “It is not the downtrodden. It is not poor Americans. It is not about dispossession. It’s about elite disaffection and elite anger. The party of highly educated, but downwardly mobile elites &#8230; they comprise a highly energetic activist base, but it’s important because it’s not just the elites, the college-educated New Yorkers, that base was supplemented by carefully selected ethnic blocs carved out of the electorate using identity politics as the knife.”
Vance noted that Mamdani’s desire to appeal to ethnic blocs was reflected in his “bizarre appeals to foreign politics, intended to signal to one particular group of New Yorkers or another.”
“Let us ask ourselves why is a mayoral candidate in our nation’s biggest city whining about banning Bibi Netanyahu, a country whose population is about the same size as that of New York, and threatening to arrest a foreign leader if he tries to come to New York City?” he asked. “Why is a New York mayoral candidate attacking Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister of India, as a war criminal? Why is he talking about ‘globalizing the intifada’?”
“But what might seem like a contradiction makes a little bit of sense if you peel back the onion,” he speculated. “Consider a movement that rails against the billionaire class, despite the fact that the billionaire class remains firmly in the corner of the modern Left; a movement that idolizes foreign religions, even as it rejects the teachings of those faiths. It rails, this new modern Left against white people, even as many of its funders and its grassroots activists are privileged whites themselves.”
“What unites Islamists, gender-studies majors, socially liberal white urbanites, and Big Pharma lobbyists &#8230; isn’t the ideas of Thomas Jefferson or even of Karl Marx; it’s hatred,” he stated. “They hate the people in this room. They hate the President of the United States, and most of all, they hate the people who voted for that President of the United States in the last election in November. This is the animating principle of the American far-Left.”
“That’s why Mamdani himself is such an appealing instrument to the Left,” Vance said. “He captures so many of the movement’s apparent contradictions in a single human being; a guy who describes the Palestinian cause as central to his identity yet holds views like abortion on demand or using taxpayer-funded money to fund transgender surgeries for minors. These views, of course, are completely incomprehensible on the streets of Gaza. This guy represents that contradiction.”
“He’s trying to tear something down and he’s very effective at articulating all of the things that the far-Left hates in modern America,” he concluded.
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President Donald Trump scored another major legislative victory on Tuesday with the GOP-led Senate narrowly passing &#8220;One Big, Beautiful Bill&#8221; with the help of Vice President JD Vance, keeping alive the prospect of Congress getting the centerpiece measure to his desk by Independence Day.
The 800-<a href="https://x.com/jamiedupree/status/1940096392199852393" target="_blank" rel="noopener">page</a>-plus bill, which aims to fulfill many of Trump&#8217;s spending and tax-cut goals for his second term, triumphed in a 51-50 vote after a marathon &#8220;vote-a-rama&#8221; session on amendments and intense deliberations between members during which leadership managed to win over just enough Republicans to get the measure over the finish line.
Because the bill is making its way through Congress through the budget reconciliation process, the Senate was able to bypass the 60-vote filibuster and pass the measure with only a simple majority. Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), who raised concerns about Medicaid cuts, and Sens. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Susan Collins (R-ME) voted against the bill with the Democrats and independents. Vance broke a 50-50 tie.
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GOP leaders in the House and Senate have been racing to get the bill to Trump by his stated deadline of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/down-to-the-wire-can-congress-meet-trumps-july-4-deadline-for-the-big-beautiful-bill" target="_blank" rel="noopener">July 4</a>. Topline items include extending the 2017 tax cuts, which are set to expire at the end of this year, boosting funds for border security and the military, cutting red tape for American energy production, and raising the debt ceiling by trillions of dollars.
&#8220;Republicans, the One Big Beautiful Bill, perhaps the greatest and most important of its kind in history, gives the largest Tax Cuts and Border Security ever, Jobs by the Millions, Military/Vets increases, and so much more,&#8221; Trump said in an overnight <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114775981239886599" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a> on Truth Social. &#8220;The failure to pass means a whopping 68% Tax increase, the largest in history!!!&#8221;
Now the bill is headed back to the House, where it initially <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-passes-one-big-beautiful-bill-in-massive-win-for-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passed</a> in late May. The House Rules Committee is expected to meet as early as noon. If the panel is able to pass a rule for consideration of the bill, the full House will come into play. However, there will likely not be a quick resolution. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUAhVS_GsVs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> last week that he would honor the customary 72 hours to allow members three days to review the text of the legislation. He also <a href="https://x.com/meredithllee/status/1938613838582026495" target="_blank" rel="noopener">conceded</a> that it is &#8220;possible&#8221; the bill&#8217;s timeline may slide past July 4, Trump&#8217;s stated deadline.
Many changes have been made over the past month. That is due in part to the Senate Parliamentarian <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gop-furious-as-unelected-bureaucrat-yanks-conservative-elements-from-big-beautiful-bill" target="_blank" rel="noopener">determining</a> that certain provisions did not adhere to the rules for the reconciliation process.
Sections that did not make the final cut included a 10-year artificial intelligence law <a href="https://x.com/commercedems/status/1939989882874519711" target="_blank" rel="noopener">moratorium</a> on the states and a <a href="https://x.com/SenMikeLee/status/1939132778605388207" target="_blank" rel="noopener">proposal</a> from Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) to sell public lands.
Ultimately, the process could come down to a Friday showdown on the House floor. Fiscal hawks in the lower chamber have been raising concerns about the Senate version <a href="https://x.com/freedomcaucus/status/1939739118113546623" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ballooning</a> the national debt. Any further changes would need to be approved by the House and Senate.
Johnson <a href="https://x.com/SpeakerJohnson/status/1939742277686964474" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a post on X that the bill will be &#8220;JET FUEL&#8221; for the United States economy. &#8220;It makes the Trump tax cuts permanent, eliminates taxes on tips and overtime, provides tax relief for seniors, and slashes regulations to spur job creation and economic growth,&#8221; he added.
Trump has threatened to back primary challengers against Republicans who have opposed the &#8220;One Big, Beautiful Bill.&#8221; One of them, Tillis, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tillis-buckles-to-trump-threat-wont-seek-reelection" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> on Sunday he would not seek re-election. Another is Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), whom billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-warns-republicans-vote-for-big-beautiful-bill-lose-your-next-primary" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> he would support, while also warning Republicans who voted to pass the legislation that he would actively work to ensure they lose their next primary.

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Vice President JD Vance weighed in on the ongoing dispute between media outlets and the Trump administration regarding the recent military strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities — specifically, over whether or not the strikes were successful in destroying the intended targets.
President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth — alongside Secretary of State Marco Rubio — declared the strikes a success and pushed back on reports citing an intelligence report that said otherwise. Vance shared a clip of that exchange and explained what he thought was truly telling about the whole scenario: the leaked intelligence report and the media coverage of the strike on Iran.
&#8220;This is such a revealing clip,&#8221; Vance began his lengthy post on X. &#8220;The American media is full of the least curious, least insightful people in our country. To recap, an out of context, &#8216;low confidence&#8217; and incomplete intelligence report was selectively leaked to the media. The media reported on the findings without any real effort to figure out whether they represent any part of (much less the full) truth. The way the media has presented the report is contradicted by the IAEA, the Iranians themselves, and the administration&#8217;s political and defense leadership. More importantly, the media&#8217;s reports are contradicted by common sense.&#8221;
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This is such a revealing clip. The American media is full of the least curious, least insightful people in our country.
To recap, an out of context, &#8220;low confidence&#8221; and incomplete intelligence report was selectively leaked to the media. The media reported on the findings…
— JD Vance (@JDVance) <a href="https://twitter.com/JDVance/status/1937894288886489267?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 25, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Vance went on to describe what actually happened during the strikes on Iran, saying, &#8220;To summarize: a dozen 30,000-pound bunker busters were dropped on Iran&#8217;s main nuclear site. (The other two sites that were targeted suffered heavy damage too). No one disputes they hit their targets. No one disputes the explosive or destructive power of the weapons. No one disputes that a week ago, Iran could have easily assembled a nuclear weapon and now they can&#8217;t.&#8221;
Everyone stipulated that the United States military had, in fact, struck the intended targets and done damage, Vance explained, noting that the only element in question was how much damage was done — and how quickly, if they were so inclined, could the Iranians rebuild?
&#8220;The entire debate — even accepting the press&#8217;s dishonest framing — is not about whether Iran can now build a nuke. They can&#8217;t. It&#8217;s about how much rebuilding the Iranians would have to do in order to achieve a nuclear weapon,&#8221; Vance said. &#8220;In other words, after a wildly successful military operation with no American casualties, the American media is trying to blame Donald Trump for the existence of facilities *that haven&#8217;t even been built yet.* (Set to the side Iran&#8217;s willingness to rebuild their program. As the President himself said, they now know there are serious consequences for rebuilding. They also learned that we can very easily set their progress back.)&#8221;
The vice president concluded by pointing to the one story that he believed should be covered, though it was clear that he held out little hope in American media outlets doing so.
&#8220;There is actually an interesting story here, if the media was interested in telling it,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Why are members of the intelligence community leaking incomplete reports against the elected leadership of the country? Why have the same reporters who have gotten so much wrong learned so little? What is the purpose of these leaks — who is behind them, and what are they trying to achieve? The media won&#8217;t investigate that story, though it would be in the public interest to do so.&#8221;
&#8220;So pay attention to the reporters who are laundering talking points from junior careerists in the intelligence community,&#8221; he warned. &#8220;President Trump has obliterated the Iranian nuclear program. The American media seems destined to obliterate their own credibility on this fake story.&#8221;

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Vice President JD Vance casually flipped the bird during his remarks at a Republican dinner in his home state of Ohio on Tuesday, jabbing at &#8220;pink-haired&#8221; protesters and adding with a smile, &#8220;I think it means we&#8217;re number one.&#8221;
Vance spoke at the sold-out event in Lima, and he spent the majority of his time laying out the &#8220;Trump Doctrine&#8221; and detailing the recent strikes on Iranian nuclear targets — but he did take a little time for levity.
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🚨 LMAO! JD Vance throws up the MIDDLE FINGER live on TV
&#8220;In D.C., they have this thing where &#8211; I think it means we&#8217;re number one &#8211; all the pink-haired people throw up this sign&#8230; *throws up middle finger*&#8221;<a href="https://t.co/m5oWcWX0p6">pic.twitter.com/m5oWcWX0p6</a>
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&#8220;In Washington, D.C., they have this thing where — I think it means we&#8217;re number one in Washington, D.C. — all the pink-haired people throw up this sign,&#8221; Vance then raised his middle finger to laughs from the audience. &#8220;And I think, you know, that means we&#8217;re number one, right? That&#8217;s — I choose to take that as that symbol in Washington &#8230; all kidding aside.&#8221;
Vance spent the rest of the time talking about the Trump administration&#8217;s military action against Iran&#8217;s nuclear program — which he described as a perfect example of the &#8220;Trump Doctrine&#8221; on foreign policy.
&#8220;What I call the Trump Doctrine is quite simple: Number one, you articulate a clear American interest and that’s, in this case, that Iran can’t have a nuclear weapon. Number two, you try to aggressively diplomatically solve that problem,&#8221; Vance said, referencing the Trump administration&#8217;s efforts to bring Iran to the table before taking action. &#8220;And number three, when you can’t solve it diplomatically, you use overwhelming military power to solve it and then you get the hell out of there before it ever becomes a protracted conflict.&#8221;

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Vice President JD Vance said the war between Israel and Iran could be an inflection moment for the Middle East after President Donald Trump announced an end to the war on Monday.
Vance appeared on Fox News shortly after the president announced a ceasefire and end-of-the-war agreement had been reached in a post on Truth Social. Vance credited the president for “working the phones constantly” to bring about an end to the war.
Vance also credited the president for accomplishing the objective of creating “a world where Iran cannot build a nuclear weapon.”
“Look, this is a great thing. For Israel – think about this – they&#8217;ve accomplished an important military objective. They&#8217;ve helped us destroy the Iranian nuclear program. They&#8217;ve also destroyed the conventional missile capability of Iran that threatened the country of Israel,” Vance said.
“For the Iranians, I think this is a new opportunity to actually pursue the path of peace. As I said yesterday, what the Iranians have showed through their support of terror networks, through their now-failed effort to build a nuclear weapon, is that they&#8217;re just not very good at war,” he continued.
“I think the president really hit the reset button and said, look, let&#8217;s actually produce long-term peace for the region. That&#8217;s always been his goal. I actually think when we look back, we will say the 12 Day War was an important reset moment for the entire region,” Vance said.
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&quot;The President really hit the reset button and said, &#39;Look, let&#39;s actually produce long-term peace for the region,&#39;&quot; says <a href="https://twitter.com/VP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@VP</a> on the Israel-Iran ceasefire.
&quot;I actually think when we look back, we will say the 12 Day War was an important reset moment for the entire region.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/wFgJ8GXMva">pic.twitter.com/wFgJ8GXMva</a>
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Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social Monday afternoon that Israel and Iran would begin a ceasefire after final missions are completed. The ceasefire will last for 12 hours, at the end of which “the War will be considered, ENDED!” the president wrote.
“On the assumption that everything works as it should, which it will, I would like to congratulate both Countries, Israel and Iran, on having the Stamina, Courage, and Intelligence to end, what should be called, ‘THE 12 DAY WAR,’” wrote Trump. “This is a War that could have gone on for years, and destroyed the entire Middle East, but it didn’t, and never will! God bless Israel, God bless Iran, God bless the Middle East, God bless the United States of America, and GOD BLESS THE WORLD!”
Over the past two weeks, Israel’s air force has operated essentially freely over the skies of Tehran, knocking out key military sites and leaders. Israel also hit some political and propaganda sites, such as Iran’s state-run news agency and Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison where the regime regularly locked up political prisoners.
Attacks by the United States and Israel have all but destroyed Iran’s nuclear program, a goal Trump stated months ago as the United States undertook negotiations with Iran to deconstruct its nuclear enrichment facilities.

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Vice President JD Vance twisted the knife on Iran in the hours after a United States strike that crippled multiple nuclear facilities, telling &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; anchor Kristen Welker that Iran was apparently &#8220;not very good at war.&#8221;
Vance began by explaining that the United States did not want to go to war with Iran, but that peace was absolutely contingent on Iran not having access to a nuclear weapon. He said that was what the targeted strike on Iran&#8217;s three nuclear facilities was meant to accomplish.
&#8220;What we said to the Iranians is that we do not want war with Iran,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We actually want peace, but we want peace in the context of them not having a nuclear weapons program — and that&#8217;s exactly what the President accomplished last night.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/VP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@VP</a>: &#8220;We do not want war with Iran. We actually want peace, but we want peace in the context of them not having a nuclear weapons program — and that&#8217;s exactly what the President accomplished last night.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/qV1Kp64Qfr">pic.twitter.com/qV1Kp64Qfr</a>
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Vance said that two questions remained unanswered: whether Iran planned to attack American troops or continue pursuing a nuclear weapons program — either of which could provoke a wider response.
The vice president went on to address claims that the United States had upended any chances at diplomacy with Iran, saying that it was the Islamic Republic that had put an end to diplomatic efforts when efforts made by the United States were not taken seriously.
&#8220;The foreign minister is exactly wrong &#8230; We only took this action, Kristen, when it was clear, as the president said, that the Iranians were tapping us along.&#8221;
Vance recounted the months of negotiations, noting that early on in the administration, there had been some hope that the Iranians might have actually been prepared to come to the table. But when it became clear that they were not truly giving the negotiations a chance, Vance said it became clear that the United States had to act.
&#8220;They were trying to draw this process out as long as possible so that they could rebuild their nuclear weapons program without the threat of American action,&#8221; Vance explained. &#8220;We didn&#8217;t blow up the diplomacy. The diplomacy never was given a real chance by the Iranians.&#8221;
&#8220;The Iranians are clearly not very good at war. Perhaps they should follow President Trump&#8217;s lead and give peace a chance,&#8221; he concluded.
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&#8220;We didn&#8217;t blow up the diplomacy. The diplomacy never was given a real chance by the Iranians,&#8221; says <a href="https://twitter.com/VP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@VP</a>.
&#8220;The Iranians are clearly not very good at war. Perhaps they should follow President Trump&#8217;s lead and give peace a chance.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/pJ2tpqekom">pic.twitter.com/pJ2tpqekom</a>
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1936776133866827930?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 22, 2025</a></blockquote>
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JD Vance: Iranians ‘Not Very Good At War,’ Should ‘Give Peace A Chance’

JD Vance: Iranians 'Not Very Good At War,' Should 'Give Peace A Chance'

Vice President JD Vance said on Sunday the United States is not at war with Iran after President Donald Trump ordered strikes on three of that country&#8217;s nuclear facilities.
Vance made the declaration in response to what anchor Jonathan Karl called the &#8220;big question&#8221; at the top of an interview on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;This Week.&#8221;
&#8220;No, we’re not at war with Iran, Jon,&#8221; Vance said. &#8220;We’re at war with Iran&#8217;s nuclear program. And I think the president took decisive action to destroy that program last night.&#8221;
Vance stressed that Trump, who has long stated that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon, wants to force new leadership in Tehran.
&#8220;We don&#8217;t want to achieve regime change — we want to achieve the end of the Iranian nuclear program,&#8221; Vance said, adding that the strikes were a &#8220;major step forward&#8221; toward achieving that result.
Vance warned Iran against retaliating against the United States.
&#8220;If the Iranians attack us, they&#8217;re going to be met with overwhelming force &#8230; We did not attack the nation of Iran. We did not attack any civilian targets. We didn&#8217;t even attack military targets outside of the three nuclear weapons facilities,&#8221; Vance said.
If Iran were to attack the United States, Vance said that he believes the United States will be able to protect as many of its people as possible.
&#8220;We have got maximum defensive posture,&#8221; Vance said.
Vance contended that one cannot expect peace in the region if Iran were to get a nuclear weapon.
&#8220;It would lead to absolutely disastrous military conflict all over the Middle East,&#8221; Vance said. &#8220;We don&#8217;t want that, our Gulf Arab allies don&#8217;t want that, Israel doesn&#8217;t want that.&#8221;
Vance insisted that stopping Iran from getting a nuclear weapon is one of the few issues that unites the Arabians and the Israelis.
&#8220;They know it would lead to the opposite of peace,&#8221; he said.
Vance also sought to offer comfort to those worried about the United States getting involved in another longstanding war.
&#8220;The president — more than anybody — is worried about protracted military conflicts. That is not what we&#8217;re getting ourselves involved in,&#8221; Vance said.
&#8220;What we&#8217;re getting ourselves involved in is a very targeted effort to eliminate the Iranian nuclear program,&#8221; Vance said. &#8220;That will continue to be the goal of American foreign policy. And it&#8217;s that goal that is going to motivate our action in the weeks and months to come.&#8221;

Vance Answers The ‘Big Question’: ‘We’re Not At War With Iran’

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The White House released photos taken from inside the White House’s Situation Room on Saturday as American bombers knocked out nuclear facilities in Iran.
The White House posted a series of seven photos on X showing President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Joint Chiefs Chairman Dan Caine, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, and others huddled together watching the mission progress.
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President Donald J. Trump in The Situation Room, June 21, 2025 <a href="https://t.co/fw70poHb0O">pic.twitter.com/fw70poHb0O</a>
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President Donald J. Trump in The Situation Room, June 21, 2025 <a href="https://t.co/QZroRBNW1t">pic.twitter.com/QZroRBNW1t</a>
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President Donald J. Trump in The Situation Room, June 21, 2025 <a href="https://t.co/T0ECocToiC">pic.twitter.com/T0ECocToiC</a>
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President Donald J. Trump in The Situation Room, June 21, 2025 <a href="https://t.co/V4pRVzsqcZ">pic.twitter.com/V4pRVzsqcZ</a>
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American B-2 bombers dropped payloads on three Iranian nuclear sites on Saturday. Bombs struck the nuclear facilities Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan.
The White House had said Thursday that the president planned to make a decision on whether or not to bomb Iran “within the next two weeks.” Trump addressed the nation after the mission.
“Tonight, I can report to the world that the strikes were a spectacular military success. Iran&#8217;s key nuclear facilities have been completely and totally obliterated,” the president <a href="https://x.com/KassyAkiva/status/1936607420068856087">said</a>.
Trump threatened further action against Iran unless Tehran chooses peace.
&#8220;This cannot continue. There will be either peace or tragedy for Iran — far greater than we have witnessed over the last eight days. Remember, there are many targets left,” Trump <a href="https://x.com/KassyAkiva/status/1936611374458675349">said</a>. “Tonight was the most difficult of them all — by far — and perhaps the most lethal, but if peace does not come quickly, we will go after those other targets with precision, speed, and skill. Most of them can be taken out in a matter of minutes.”
In the United States, the strike on Iran has already sparked calls for impeachment from Democrats in Congress.
“The President’s disastrous decision to bomb Iran without authorization is a grave violation of the Constitution and Congressional War Powers,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) <a href="https://x.com/MaryMargOlohan/status/1936603028708082160">said</a>. “He has impulsively risked launching a war that may ensnare us for generations. It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.”
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) <a href="https://x.com/SpeakerJohnson/status/1936602051431063760">defended</a> the president in a post on X, noting that “[l]eaders in Congress were aware of the urgency of this situation and the Commander-in-Chief evaluated that the imminent danger outweighed the time it would take for Congress to act.”

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The Trump administration will study the long-term effects on people of chemicals released after the 2023 train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.
Vice President JD Vance, who is from Ohio, joined Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and National Institutes of Health Director Jay Battacharya to announce the new initiative in a video posted to social media.
“I&#8217;ve been to East Palestine a number of times, and they&#8217;re very worried about, what are the long-term impacts of these chemicals in the water, in the air? What effect does it have on their kids and grandkids after 5 years, 10 years, 15 years of exposure?” said Vance.
“The crazy thing is, number one, we didn&#8217;t have a good answer to that question. Science had never actually tried to understand what the long-term exposure of these trace chemicals would do to people,” he continued. “And the second crazy thing is that as much as I tried as a United States senator to work with the Biden administration, they refused to do anything to actually study the effects of these long-term exposures on the people of East Palestine.”
After a Norfolk Southern train carrying toxic chemicals derailed and dumped its cargo, residents, officials, and investigators who resided or worked close to the spill <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/half-of-u-s-investigators-fell-ill-while-studying-east-palestine-train-derailment-report">reported</a> having symptoms such as headaches, nausea, and dizziness. A controlled burn of the spill sent plumes of black smoke into the air, causing further concerns of what the smoke could do to nearby residents.
“The National Institutes of Health under my direction has launched a 5-year, $10 million research initiative to address health outcomes stemming from this calamity. This is the first large-scale, coordinated, multi-year federal study focused specifically on the long-term health impacts of the East Palestine disaster,” Kennedy said.
Bhattacharya added: “The purpose and goal of the NIH, the mission is to advance the health and well-being of the American people, and this is a concrete way that we&#8217;re going to do that. The NIH is working to ensure that the people of East Palestine and the surrounding communities are listened to, cared for, and they get the answers they deserve.”
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I&#39;m proud to announce with <a href="https://twitter.com/SecKennedy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SecKennedy</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/NIHDirector_Jay?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NIHDirector_Jay</a> that the Trump Administration is launching a program to study long-term health effects of the chemical spill in East Palestine, OH and help residents access the care they need.
East Palestine, we will never forget you. <a href="https://t.co/zjJOnXZgoc">pic.twitter.com/zjJOnXZgoc</a>
&mdash; JD Vance (@JDVance) <a href="https://twitter.com/JDVance/status/1935740906533167510?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The East Palestine spill was a calamity for the roughly 5,000- strong community and exploded into national news. The accident inspired rancor against the Biden administration and then-Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. Former President Joe Biden notably stayed away from East Palestine <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-to-visit-east-palestine-one-year-after-train-derailment-disaster">until</a> the one-year anniversary of the disaster.
President Donald Trump, who was campaigning for president at the time, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/wednesday-afternoon-update-snow-storm-causes-travel-chaos-trump-brings-supplies-and-morale-to-ohio-vivek-ramaswamy-announces-presidential-run">visited</a> East Palestine within weeks of the disaster, bringing supplies to the reeling community.

Trump Admin Seeks Answers On Long-Term Risks Of East Palestine Train Derailment

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Vice President JD Vance trolled users of BlueSky on Wednesday, joining the social platform to take part in “common sense political discussion” of the Supreme Court’s ruling upholding state bans on gender mutilation surgeries.
Vance created an account on BlueSky, reputedly a platform for leftists and defectors of Elon Musk’s X, and posted a screenshot of a piece of Justice Clarence Thomas’ concurrence in United States v. Skrmetti shortly before the vice president was apparently suspended from the site. Vance&#8217;s account was then reactivated a short time later.
In the concurrence, Thomas raised objections to “deferring to the authority of the expert class.”
“First, so-called experts have no license to countermand the ‘wisdom, fairness, or logic of legislative choices,’” Thomas wrote. “Second, contrary to the representations of the United States and the private plaintiffs, there is no medical consensus on how best to treat gender dysphoria in children.”
“Third, notwithstanding the alleged experts’ view that young children can provide informed consent to irreversible sex-transition treatments, whether such consent is possible is a question of medical ethics that States must decide for themselves,” he continued. “Fourth, there are particularly good reasons to question the expert class here, as recent revelations suggest that leading voices in this area have relied on questionable evidence, and have allowed ideology to influence their medical guidance.”
Vance posted the snippet with an encouraging, if cheeky, message inviting “discussion and analysis” of Thomas’ argument.
“Hello Bluesky, I’ve been told this app has become the place to go to for common sense political discussion and analysis. So I&#8217;m thrilled to be here to engage with all of you,” Vance said before laying out “illuminating” points from Thomas’ concurrence.
“[Thomas] argues that many of our so-called ‘experts’ have used bad arguments and substandard science to push experimental therapies on our youth,” Vance said. “I might add that many of those scientists are receiving substantial resources from big pharma to push these medicines on kids. What do you think?”
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Just set up my page on <a href="https://twitter.com/bluesky?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@bluesky</a>, hope to see you guys there! <a href="https://t.co/5cgjyMF8su">pic.twitter.com/5cgjyMF8su</a>
&mdash; JD Vance (@JDVance) <a href="https://twitter.com/JDVance/status/1935457852082016556?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Progressives on BlueSky pounced on Vance&#8217;s post. Gun control activist Fred Guttenberg <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/fredguttenberg.bsky.social/post/3lrwaj53vk224">called</a> Vance an &#8220;anti-Democracy hack&#8221; and said of the vice president&#8217;s post that BlueSky &#8220;does not need to be infested with your deranged thoughts.&#8221;
Zach Kopplin, an activist and investigator with the Government Accountability Project, <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/zackkopplin.bsky.social/post/3lrw7pd7doc2l">responded</a> to Vance&#8217;s post: &#8220;Time to cyber bully JD Vance off this app.&#8221;
In United States v. Skrmetti, the Supreme Court <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-upholds-tennessees-ban-on-transgender-drugs-for-children">upheld</a> a state ban on transgender drugs and surgeries in Tennessee. The court ruled that the ban does not violate the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause.
“In today’s historic Supreme Court win, the common sense of Tennessee voters prevailed over judicial activism,” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fatal-blow-to-the-child-mutilation-industry-conservatives-cheer-scotus-decision-on-trans-ban">said</a> Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti. “A bipartisan supermajority of Tennessee’s elected representatives carefully considered the evidence and voted to protect kids from irreversible decisions they cannot yet fully understand.”

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Lib Social App Suspends Vance’s Account After His Opening Salvo Triggers Trans Activists

Lib Social App Suspends Vance's Account After His Opening Salvo Triggers Trans Activists

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