Vice President JD Vance said on Tuesday that President Donald Trump &#8220;may decide to take further action to end Iranian enrichment&#8221; as Israel <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/live-updates-israel-strikes-iran?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Daily+Wire&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=LIVE+UPDATES%3A+Israel+Eliminates+More+Iranian+Commanders+As+Trump+Weighs+In">takes out</a> the radical Islamic regime&#8217;s nuclear facilities and military leaders.
In a lengthy <a href="https://x.com/JDVance/status/1934996183702704404">post</a> on X, the vice president sought to address &#8220;crazy stuff on social media&#8221; regarding the fighting in the Middle East and the United States&#8217; involvement. The United States is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-military-on-the-move-strike-group-en-route-to-middle-east-amid-israels-iran-offensive">moving</a> the USS Nimitz carrier strike group toward the Middle East while deploying additional tanker aircraft to the region. Israel continues to conduct airstrikes, targeting Iranian military leaders, missile launchers, and nuclear facilities, while Iran rains down missiles on Israeli cities.
As questions swirl around the United States potentially getting directly involved in the conflict, Vance praised Trump for showing &#8220;remarkable restraint in keeping our military&#8217;s focus on protecting our troops and protecting our citizens.&#8221; Vance added, &#8220;He may decide he needs to take further action to end Iranian enrichment. That decision ultimately belongs to the president.&#8221;
A poll released on Monday showed that Trump voters <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/poll-of-trump-voters-finds-overwhelming-support-for-u-s-helping-israel-against-iran?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Hank+Berrien&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=3&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=Trump+Voters+Overwhelmingly+Support+U.S.+Helping+Israel+Against+Iran%2C+Poll+Finds">overwhelmingly back</a> the United States taking action against Iran in support of Israel. Vance, however, acknowledged that some of the president&#8217;s supporters &#8220;are right to be worried about foreign entanglement after the last 25 years of idiotic foreign policy.&#8221;
&#8220;But I believe the president has earned some trust on this issue,&#8221; he added. &#8220;And having seen this up close and personal, I can assure you that he is only interested in using the American military to accomplish the American people&#8217;s goals. Whatever he does, that is his focus.&#8221;
In his social media post, Vance also pointed to Trump&#8217;s consistency on opposing Iran&#8217;s push for uranium enrichment.
&#8220;I&#8217;ve seen a lot of confusion over the issue of &#8216;civilian nuclear power&#8217; and &#8216;uranium enrichment.&#8217; These are distinct issues,&#8221; Vance wrote. &#8220;Iran could have civilian nuclear power without enrichment, but Iran rejected that. Meanwhile, they&#8217;ve enriched uranium far above the level necessary for any civilian purpose. They&#8217;ve been found in violation of their non-proliferation obligations by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which is hardly a rightwing organization.&#8221;
&#8220;I have yet to see a single good argument for why Iran needed to enrich uranium well above the threshold for civilian use. I&#8217;ve yet to see a single good argument for why Iran was justified in violating its non-proliferation obligations. I&#8217;ve yet to see a single good pushback against the IAEA&#8217;s findings,&#8221; he added.
President Trump, who has backed Israel&#8217;s strikes on Iran, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/not-a-ceasefire-trump-reveals-what-hes-looking-for-with-israel-iran-conflict?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Zach+Jewell&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=1&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=%E2%80%98Not+A+Ceasefire%E2%80%99%3A+Trump+Reveals+What+He%E2%80%99s+%E2%80%98Looking+For%E2%80%99+With+Israel-Iran+Conflict">said</a> early on Tuesday that he&#8217;s not interested in a ceasefire between the two enemies. Trump said he wants &#8220;a real end, not a ceasefire.&#8221;
“So something that will be permanent?” a reporter asked him.
“Yeah, or giving up entirely. That’s okay too,” Trump added. “A complete give-up. That’s possible.”

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WASHINGTON—The Kennedy Center raised $10 million with Thursday evening&#8217;s premiere of &#8220;Les Misérables,&#8221; a star-studded event attended by President Donald Trump and several top government officials.
&#8220;We&#8217;re going to make it incredible,&#8221; Trump said of the Kennedy Center as he walked the red carpet with First Lady Melania Trump. &#8220;We have all the funding. We raised a lot tonight, and we&#8217;ll put in a lot of money to bring it back to the highest level.&#8221; Trump also noted that he and the First Lady &#8220;love Les Mis,&#8221; telling The Daily Wire it was impossible for him to choose a favorite song.
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&#8220;I love Les Mis. We&#8217;ve seen it many times.&#8221;<a href="https://twitter.com/MaryMargOlohan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@MaryMargOlohan</a> asks President Trump his thoughts on the iconic musical during the Kennedy Center’s production of &#8216;Les Misérables.&#8217; <a href="https://t.co/ijwkfeyOgA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/ijwkfeyOgA</a>
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1933220763684778233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">June 12, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;We raised a little more than $10 million, which is pretty remarkable,&#8221; Kennedy Center Executive Director Ric Grenell told reporters before noting that he hoped to raise even more money in the future. Grenell also said that the Kennedy Center is &#8220;an organization that needs the money right now,&#8221; a reference to the performing arts venue&#8217;s recent financial troubles.
The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-kennedy-center-is-40-million-in-debt-will-make-major-cuts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that The Kennedy Center was $40 million in debt, and that previous leadership had <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-kennedy-center-is-40-million-in-debt-will-make-major-cuts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fabricated financials</a> in order to cover massive deficit spending. Grenell touched on the issue Thursday evening, saying &#8220;the people who understand finances know that you can&#8217;t pay staff with debt reserves and pretend like that&#8217;s the right thing to do.&#8221;
Vice President JD Vance and Second Lady Usha Vance also walked the red carpet, the former laughing when asked by The Daily Wire if California Governor Gavin Newsom was &#8220;trying to get arrested&#8221; by defying the White House in Los Angeles.
&#8220;I think probably,&#8221; Vance said. &#8220;It would probably help his 2028 Democratic primary prospects, and that&#8217;s all he seems to think about, is politics.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/MaryMargOlohan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@MaryMargOlohan</a>: &#8220;Do you think that Gavin Newsom wants to be arrested?&#8221;<a href="https://twitter.com/JDVance?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@JDVance</a>: &#8220;It would probably help his 2028 Democratic primary prospects&#8230; But I really would love for Gavin Newsom just to do his job.&#8221;<a href="https://t.co/VjWpxurJ92" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/VjWpxurJ92</a>
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1933230705477300412?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">June 12, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;But I really would love for Gavin Newsom just to do his job,&#8221; Vance added.
Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski demurred when asked about Newsom, but noted that &#8220;the last member of Congress who said she wanted to be arrested has now been indicted by a jury of her peers in New Jersey, I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s as much fun as they thought it was going to be,&#8221; a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-indicted-over-ice-facility-clash-faces-up-to-17-years-in-prison" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reference</a> to New Jersey Rep. LaMonica McIver.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/MaryMargOlohan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@MaryMargOlohan</a>: &#8220;Do you think [Newsom] wants to be arrested?<a href="https://twitter.com/CLewandowski_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@CLewandowski_</a>: &#8220;The last member of Congress who said she wanted to be arrested has now been indicted by a jury of her peers in New Jersey, I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s as much fun as they thought it was going to be.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/Un4nrbRp2w" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/Un4nrbRp2w</a>
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1933237944229507177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">June 12, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Also in attendance were Attorney General Pam Bondi and Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Lindsey Graham (R-GA), who told The Daily Wire that his favorite song from the show was &#8220;the storming of the barricades,&#8221; likely a reference to &#8220;Do You Hear The People Sing?&#8221;
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RFK Jr. and Cheryl Hines are here. The HHS Secretary defends shutting down a major vaccine advisory committee, saying the panelists had financial conflicts of interest. <a href="https://t.co/mWPOEWE5Yh" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/mWPOEWE5Yh</a>
— Tim Rice (@timerice1) <a href="https://twitter.com/timerice1/status/1932927307469234297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">June 11, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Some audience members booed the president as he entered the theater, and members <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/several-les-mis-cast-members-045317078.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> chose not to perform in order to boycott Trump. Asked about the boycotts by a reporter on the red carpet, Trump was unfazed.
“I couldn’t care less,&#8221; the president said. &#8220;All I do is run the country well.&#8221;

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Governor Gavin Newsom attempted to do battle with Vice President JD Vance over the ongoing riots in Los Angeles and President Donald Trump&#8217;s decision to deploy first National Guard troops and then U.S. Marines to put an end to the violence and destruction of property.
The exchange began with Newsom, who shared a video of Trump taking questions outside the White House. When asked about a social media post in which Newsom had effectively dared Border Czar Tom Homan to detain him, Trump replied, &#8220;I would do it, if I was Tom&#8221; — and then said that Newsom had issued the challenge because he &#8220;likes the publicity.&#8221;
&#8220;The President of the United States just called for the arrest of a sitting Governor,&#8221; Newsom claimed. &#8220;This is a day I hoped I would never see in America. I don’t care if you’re a Democrat or a Republican this is a line we cannot cross as a nation — this is an unmistakable step toward authoritarianism.&#8221;
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The President of the United States just called for the arrest of a sitting Governor.
This is a day I hoped I would never see in America.
I don’t care if you’re a Democrat or a Republican this is a line we cannot cross as a nation — this is an unmistakable step toward… <a href="https://t.co/tsTX1nrHAu">pic.twitter.com/tsTX1nrHAu</a>
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) <a href="https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1932121823925403834?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 9, 2025</a></blockquote>
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That was when Vance first entered the conversation, addressing Newsom&#8217;s post by saying, &#8220;Do your job. That’s all we’re asking.&#8221;
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Do your job. That’s all we’re asking. <a href="https://t.co/99Wqom5AbQ">https://t.co/99Wqom5AbQ</a>
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Newsom pushed back, claiming that California was doing fine until Trump got involved. He did not mention the fact that California&#8217;s status as a sanctuary state was a violation of federal immigration laws or the fact that the anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles had been violent for two days prior to Trump&#8217;s deployment of the National Guard.
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&#8220;Do YOUR job. We didn’t have a problem until Trump got involved. Rescind the order. Return control to California,&#8221; Newsom insisted.
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Do YOUR job.
We didn’t have a problem until Trump got involved.
Rescind the order. Return control to California. <a href="https://t.co/EUJ9GpK9Ms">https://t.co/EUJ9GpK9Ms</a>
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) <a href="https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1932181254159700246?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 9, 2025</a></blockquote>
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That was when Vance unloaded on Newsom in a lengthy post shared to X.
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Gavin Newsom says he didn&#8217;t have a problem until Trump got involved. Both of these photos were taken before the president authorized the national guard to go protect our border patrol in California. Does this look like &#8220;no problem&#8221;?
Newsom and his stooge Karen Bass fomented… <a href="https://t.co/hLyB8LVqvl">https://t.co/hLyB8LVqvl</a> <a href="https://t.co/oyItCsxrqF">pic.twitter.com/oyItCsxrqF</a>
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&#8220;Gavin Newsom says he didn&#8217;t have a problem until Trump got involved. Both of these photos were taken before the president authorized the national guard to go protect our border patrol in California. Does this look like &#8216;no problem&#8217;?&#8221; Vance asked, attaching photos of rioters damaging and burning law enforcement vehicles.
&#8220;Newsom and his stooge Karen Bass fomented and encouraged the riots, because their entire political movement exists for one purpose: to promote mass migration into our country. It is their reason for being,&#8221; Vance continued. &#8220;Democratic leadership has no solution for the economy, for prosperity, or for security. They use their power when they&#8217;re in the majority to import millions of illegal immigrants and when they&#8217;re in opposition they do everything possible to prevent deportations.&#8221;
Vance went on to note that California, under Newsom&#8217;s leadership, had opened Medicaid to illegals — meaning that there were fewer resources available for legal citizens in his state.
&#8220;And now, everything is President Trump&#8217;s fault? Give me a break,&#8221; he added. &#8220;If you want to know why illegal aliens flocked to your state, stop accusing Donald Trump. Look in the mirror. If you want to know why border patrol fear for their lives over enforcing the law, look in the mirror.&#8221;
&#8220;It was your policies that encouraged mass migration into California. Your policies that protected those migrants from common sense law enforcement. Your policies that offered massive welfare benefits to reward illegal immigrants. Your policies that allowed those illegal migrants (and their sympathizers) to assault our law enforcement. Your policies that allowed Los Angeles to turn into a war zone,&#8221; Vance concluded. &#8220;You sure as hell had a problem before President Trump came along. The problem is YOU.&#8221;

JD Vance Tears ‘Newsom And His Stooge Karen Bass’ A New One Over L.A. Riots

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ABC News Senior National Correspondent Terry Moran has been suspended as he faced intense backlash for lashing out at White House aide Stephen Miller and President Donald Trump in a late-night social media diatribe.
In a now-deleted <a href="https://x.com/terrymoran/status/1931563521512272365" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a> on X, Moran described Miller as a &#8220;world-class hater&#8221; who &#8220;eats his hate&#8221; for &#8220;spiritual nourishment.&#8221; He also Trump a &#8220;world-class hater&#8221; just months after being <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-chides-host-during-first-100-days-interview-abc-is-one-of-the-worst" target="_blank" rel="noopener">chided</a> by the president during a combative interview in the Oval Office.
&#8220;ABC News stands for objectivity and impartiality in its news coverage and does not condone subjective personal attacks on others,&#8221; an ABC News spokesperson told The Daily Wire. &#8220;The post does not reflect the views of ABC News and violated our standards — as a result, Terry Moran has been suspended pending further evaluation.&#8221;
In the hours that preceded the statement, Trump administration officials and others slammed Moran and demanded accountability.
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An ABC journalist <a href="https://twitter.com/TerryMoran?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TerryMoran</a> posted this absolutely vile smear of Stephen Miller. It’s dripping with hatred. Remember that every time you watch ABC’s coverage of the Trump administration.
As it happens, I know Stephen quite well. And he’s motivated by love of country. He’s… <a href="https://t.co/hX93zKTWjy">pic.twitter.com/hX93zKTWjy</a>
— JD Vance (@JDVance) <a href="https://twitter.com/JDVance/status/1931694721354645752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 8, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;An ABC journalist [Terry Moran] posted this absolutely vile smear of Stephen Miller. It’s dripping with hatred. Remember that every time you watch ABC’s coverage of the Trump administration,&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/JDVance/status/1931694721354645752" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Vice President JD Vance.
&#8220;As it happens, I know Stephen quite well. And he’s motivated by love of country. He’s motivated by a fear that people like Terry Moran make rules that normal Americans have to follow, but well connected people don’t. It’s why he fought so hard to get President Trump elected and why he works to hard to implement the agenda. ABC should apologize to Stephen. What Terry posted is disgraceful,&#8221; Vance added.
&#8220;Last night, in a since deleted post, so-called so-called &#8216;journalist&#8217; [Terry Moran] went on a rampage against Stephen Miller and called President Trump &#8216;a world class hater.&#8217; This is unhinged and unacceptable. We have reached out to [ABC] to inquire about how they plan to hold Terry accountable,&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/PressSec/status/1931687759447556395" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.
&#8220;This is why Americans don’t trust the Legacy Media,&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/KatieMiller/status/1931687830264164421" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Katie Miller, who is Stephen Miller&#8217;s wife. &#8220;When masks are down you see the radical left-wing bias at [ABC]. These are the people feeding propaganda across the airwaves under the guise of righteousness. [Terry Moran] should be fired from the network immediately.&#8221;
Stephen Miller himself <a href="https://x.com/StephenM/status/1931708417715863647" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>: &#8220;The most important fact about Terry’s full public meltdown is what it shows about the corporate press in America. For decades, the privileged anchors and reporters narrating and gatekeeping our society have been radicals adopting a journalist’s pose. Terry pulled off his mask.&#8221;

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There are enormous threats on the world stage. Those threats can be mitigated by President Trump. Or, through lack of clarity, they can grow worse. 
Just before the Memorial Day Weekend, Vice President JD Vance spoke at the Naval Academy. He suggested that President Trump&#8217;s visit to the Middle East, in which he visited Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE, was designed to recapitulate an American foreign policy that is based on a realistic assessment of what the world looks like.
He explained, “I actually think the most significant part of that trip is that it signified the end of a decades-long approach in foreign policy, that, I think, was a break from the precedent set by our founding fathers. We had a long experiment in our foreign policy that traded national defense and the maintenance of our alliances for nation-building and meddling in foreign countries’ affairs, even when those foreign countries had very little to do with core American interests.”
The Vice President was presumably arguing against the war in Iraq. The war in Afghanistan is a bit of a different story, since originally the war in Afghanistan was launched on the back of 9/11, so it was, in fact, a core American national interest to defenestrate the regime that had protected Osama bin Laden in the aftermath of the murder of 3,000 Americans.
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Vance suggested that American foreign policy has to be focused on countering our peer adversaries: “Our government took its eye off the ball of great power competition and preparing to take on a peer adversary, and instead we devoted ourselves to sprawling, amorphous tasks like searching for new terrorists to take out while building up faraway regimes. Now, I want to be clear. The Trump administration has reversed course. No more undefined missions, no more open-ended conflicts. We&#8217;re returning to a strategy grounded in realism and protecting our core national interests. Now, this doesn&#8217;t mean that we ignore threats, but it means that we approach them with discipline and that when we send you to war, we do it with a very specific set of goals in mind. And consider how this played out in just the last major conflict we engaged in, with the Houthis over in the Middle East. We went in with a clear diplomatic goal not to enmesh our service members in a prolonged conflict with a non-state actor, but to secure American freedom of navigation by forcing the Houthis to stop attacking American ships. And that&#8217;s exactly what we did.”
The Houthi example is a very interesting one for him to use, because the reality is that the Houthis have not ceased their activities in the Red Sea. Originally, we did not define our battle against the Houthis as simply restoring deterrence with regard to Houthi attacks on American ships; the goal was to restore freedom of navigation in the Red Sea. The goal was to ensure that people could use the Red Sea through the Suez Canal in order to ship things, including oil and LNG, from the region.
That has not been restored. The Houthis are still shooting a couple of missiles a day over Saudi Arabian airspace at Israel. And shipping has still not been restored in the Red Sea.
Now, I don&#8217;t disagree with anything that Vance is saying on the surface. But the use of the Houthis is a telling example, because one of the things that is an open battle in this administration, which we all need to keep our eye on, is what this sort of language obscures.
What is the actual policy of the Trump administration? Is it a policy that makes sure to actually set red lines that are keepable? The Vice President suggests that every mission has to have an exit strategy with an end in sight, saying, “Past leaders sent our service members on mission after mission with no exit strategy, no end in sight, and with little articulation for the American people or for the warfighters about what we were doing.”
All of that sounds really nice. The reality is that foreign policy is a lot messier than that. So, for example, the United States currently has troops stationed in South Korea. Why? That is an open-ended conflict. There&#8217;s an armistice with North Korea, and the United States is, in fact, maintaining the peace in the region between South Korea and North Korea by having a trigger force there.
The United States still has military bases in Japan. Why? Presumably to deter a Chinese takeover of the South China Sea. The United States still has overflight and overwatch power over the Middle East. Why? To ensure the free flow of oil, for example, and to prevent, I assume, the nuclearization of Iran.
This kind of easy notion that the United States can simply, in pinpoint fashion, define our conflicts and get in and get out is not the way actual foreign policy really works.
If you believe that we are now living in a much more dangerous world than we were previously, that&#8217;s going to require a larger commitment to military spending. A safer world, a world in which free trade actually applies, in which you do have freedom of navigation, in which economic growth is the norm, in which the United States has trade capacity and commerce; in which global growth is the norm — all of that is maintained, in the end, by the credible threat of the use of the American military.
That&#8217;s the reality of the situation. That&#8217;s always been the reality of the situation. The notion promoted by some on the more isolationist side of the Republican aisle — that if the United States basically defines in pinpoint fashion its own military engagement, the rest of the world will simply comply — is not the way the rest of the world works.
That&#8217;s been true all along. There&#8217;s a very famous story about George Washington at the Constitutional Convention. There was a constitutional delegate who suggested that the standing army of the United States should be limited to 5,000 men. The reason was that there were a lot of members of the founding generation who didn&#8217;t like the idea of a standing army on the national level. And George Washington would have to fend off the British with an army of essentially irregular soldiers, militiamen, whom he had to cobble together throughout the Revolutionary War.
The constitutional delegate proposed a 5,000-man cap on the army in the actual Constitution. George Washington agreed. And then he sarcastically said that there had to be a stipulation added to the Constitution that no invading army could number more than 3,000.
Of course, the joke he was making is that, when it comes to foreign policy, necessity is the mother of policy.
So you can have all of these principles that we all hope to have about “no open-ended missions,” “no long-term commitments.” The reality is that in a world in which the United States refrains from any long-term commitment and refrains from flexible policy, what you end up with is more red lines crossed.
And so the question becomes, for the administration, how strong are the administration&#8217;s red lines, and what happens when those red lines are crossed? When it came to the Houthis, the United States drew a red line. Originally, it was about freedom of navigation.
That freedom of navigation has not, in fact, been restored.
You can make the case that shouldn&#8217;t have been the mission in the first place in the Red Sea. Fine. But that was not actually the mission. The ends were shifted in order to achieve some sort of titular end to a conflict so the United States could then go and pick up checks in Qatar.
Again, you can make the argument that that&#8217;s a good policy or that it&#8217;s not a good policy, but let&#8217;s be clear about what happened there.
Right now, America&#8217;s enemies are perceiving, at the very least, that there’s some play in the joints.
If President Trump had the foreign policy team from his first term in place, it wouldn&#8217;t be happening. Trump 1.0 was extremely predictable on foreign policy: If you crossed a red line, you would get punched in the face. If you did not cross a red line, we would negotiate with you. That was the foreign policy of the United States. 
There&#8217;s been debate inside the administration over whether Trump 1.0 was too hawkish.
But what America’s enemies see is that now might be a good time to push. That is certainly clear from Russia, from China, and from Iran. Russia. China and Iran are sensing weakness in the Trump administration&#8217;s approach. Russia has been stringing President Trump along while it ramps up its attacks on Ukraine. According to reports, China has now strengthened its ability to rapidly attack Taiwan. Iran, which has been weakened by Israel to its weakest point in decades, is stiffening its negotiating stance with the United States.
President Trump is a peace through strength president.
But that needs to be conveyed not just in words, but in actual forward posture, in military spending, in public statements.
Because the United States has spent the last 20 years being non-credible in its threats. And that needs to stop, as it did during President Trump’s first term.

Vice President Vance Speaks At U.S. Naval Academy Graduation Ceremony

Peace Through Strength Requires Actual Strength

Opinion

President Trump

U.S. Military

Vice President JD Vance made it clear on Monday that President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration was far from finished fighting t to enforce federal immigration laws and deport illegal aliens from the United States en masse.
During an interview with The New York Times&#8217; Ross Douthat, Vance addressed the injunctions and lower court rulings aimed at preventing the Trump administration from enforcing federal laws and delivering on one of the the president&#8217;s chief campaign promises.
“You cannot have a country where the American people keep on electing immigration enforcement, and the courts tell the American people they’re not allowed to have what they voted for.” — <a href="https://twitter.com/VP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@VP</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/JDVance?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JDVance</a> 🔥 <a href="https://t.co/Ls2eEgw3Ly">pic.twitter.com/Ls2eEgw3Ly</a>
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&#8220;You cannot have a country where the American people keep on electing immigration enforcement, and the courts tell the American people they’re not allowed to have what they voted for,&#8221; Vance said. &#8220;And that&#8217;s where we are right now.&#8221;
&#8220;We&#8217;re gonna keep working it through the immigration court process, through the Supreme Court as much as possible,&#8221; Vance continued.
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&#8220;And look, success to me is not so much a number, though obviously I&#8217;d love to see the gross majority of the illegal immigrants who came in under Biden deported. That actually is a secondary metric of success. Success to me is that we have established a set of rules and principles that the courts are comfortable with, and that we have the infrastructure to do what allows us to deport large numbers of illegal aliens when large numbers of illegal aliens come into the country. That to me is real success.&#8221;
Vance went on to defend Trump&#8217;s decision to use the Alien Enemies Act to deport suspected criminal illegal alien gang members, arguing that the people who have opposed it have never seen the impact of allowing unfettered illegal immigration to flood their communities.
&#8220;One thing I&#8217;d love for the American media to do a little bit more is really go to a migrant community where you have, say, 60% legal immigrants and 40% illegal immigrants. The level of chaos, the level of violence, the level of, I think, truly pre-modern brutality that some of these communities have gotten used to — whatever law was written, I think it vests us with very serious power to take very serious action against this,&#8221; he explained.
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“One thing I&#8217;d love for the American media to do a little bit more is really go to a migrant community where you have, say, 60% legal immigrants and 40% illegal immigrants. The level of chaos, the level of violence, the… <a href="https://t.co/HmyY2avFX8">pic.twitter.com/HmyY2avFX8</a>
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Vance Blasts Courts For Blocking Trump Admin Immigration Policies

Vance Blasts Court Interference In Immigration Law Enforcement: 'You Cannot Have A Country'

Illegal Immigration

Vice President JD Vance on Monday raised questions about former President Joe Biden&#8217;s past fitness for office in light of the recent announcement that Biden has aggressive prostate cancer that has spread to his bones.
Vance targeted people in Biden&#8217;s inner circle, who have been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/doctors-raise-questions-about-timing-of-biden-cancer-diagnosis-unbelievable-this-was-missed?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Virginia+Kruta&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=Doctors+Raise+Questions+About+Timing+Of+Biden+Cancer+Diagnosis%3A+‘Unbelievable+This+Was+Missed’" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accused of</a> covering up the former president&#8217;s mental and physical decline from the public, and asked why the American people did not have a &#8220;better sense&#8221; of Biden&#8217;s welfare.
&#8220;We wish the best for the former president&#8217;s health, and it sounds pretty serious, but hopefully he makes the right recovery,&#8221; Vance told reporters. 
&#8220;I will say, whether the right time to have this conversation is now, or at some point in the future, we really do need to be honest about whether the former president was capable of doing the job.&#8221;
The VP then suggested that doctors or staffers helped keep the truth from the American public.
&#8220;You can separate the desire for him to have the right health outcome, with the recognition that whether it was doctors, or whether there were staffers around the former president &#8212; I don&#8217;t think he was able to do a good job for the American people,&#8221; Vance said.
 &#8220;And that&#8217;s not politics, that&#8217;s not because I disagreed with him on policy, that&#8217;s because I don&#8217;t think that he was in good enough health.&#8221;
&#8220;In some ways, I blame him less than I blame the people around him,&#8221; the VP said of Biden. 
&#8220;Why didn&#8217;t the American people have a better sense of his health picture? Why didn&#8217;t the American people have more accurate information about what he was actually dealing with?&#8221; Vance posed. 
&#8220;This is serious stuff. This is the guy who carries around the nuclear football for the world&#8217;s largest nuclear arsenal,&#8221; Vance continued. &#8220;This is not child&#8217;s play. We can pray for good health, but also recognize that if you&#8217;re not in good enough health to do the job, you shouldn&#8217;t do the job.&#8221; 
Biden&#8217;s cancer announcement comes on the heels of major buzz over the forthcoming book “Original Sin,&#8221; which offers a behind-the-scenes look at the physical and cognitive decline of Biden while in the White House.
For example, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/legacy-media-outlets-say-biden-book-is-full-of-bombshells-heres-what-you-need-to-know" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the book details</a> how some staffers thought Biden might need a wheelchair, and how the former president was sometimes unable to recognize friends and staffers. Meanwhile, the White House routinely stated how sharp Biden was and suggested anyone who criticized him was engaging in misinformation.
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JD Vance takes shots at Biden and the &#8220;people around him.&#8221;
“This is not child&#8217;s play. We can pray for good health, but also recognize that if you’re not in good enough health to do the job, you shouldn’t be doing the job.” <a href="https://t.co/QW1Jsui9iq">pic.twitter.com/QW1Jsui9iq</a>
— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) <a href="https://twitter.com/charliespiering/status/1924464823191957516?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/doctors-raise-questions-about-timing-of-biden-cancer-diagnosis-unbelievable-this-was-missed?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Virginia+Kruta&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=Doctors+Raise+Questions+About+Timing+Of+Biden+Cancer+Diagnosis%3A+‘Unbelievable+This+Was+Missed’" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Doctors Raise Questions About Timing Of Biden Cancer Diagnosis: ‘Unbelievable This Was Missed’</a>

JD Vance Raises Questions After Biden’s Cancer Diagnosis: ‘This Is Not Child’s Play’

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Health

Joe Biden

Vice President JD Vance will attend Pope Leo XIV&#8217;s inaugural Mass on Sunday at the Vatican, his office announced.
&#8220;Vice President JD Vance will lead a U.S. Delegation to Vatican City to attend the inaugural Mass of His Holiness Pope Leo XIV,&#8221; the vice president&#8217;s office said in a statement Thursday.
Second Lady Usha Vance will accompany her husband, and so will Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his wife Jeanette Rubio. Rubio is also a Catholic.
Vance is the first Catholic convert to serve as vice president, his office noted. He met with the late Pope Francis on Easter Sunday, the day before the pontiff died at age 88.
Back in 2013, Joe Biden, then vice president and also a Catholic, led the delegation to Pope Francis&#8217; inaugural mass.
Pope Leo XIV, who is 69, was elected the first American pope by the conclave of cardinals on May 8.
Leo, who was previously Cardinal Robert Prevost, was born in Chicago and spent much of his priesthood in Peru until 2023, when he was made a cardinal by Pope Francis.
Francis made Prevost the Prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops, the Vatican official responsible for recommending priests to be made bishops around the world.
Prevost has been strong on Church doctrine, but he is seen as a centrist on political issues.
In February, before becoming pope, Leo <a href="https://apnews.com/article/pope-leo-twitter-x-trump-vance-criticism-9c311123985ebce282877071f75b6d80" target="_blank" rel="noopener">appears</a> to have shared an article on X from a Catholic outlet with the headline, &#8220;Vance is wrong: Jesus doesn&#8217;t ask us to rank our love for others.&#8221;
The new pope has also previously <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/15/vp-jd-vance-rubio-to-attend-inaugural-mass-of-pope-leo-xiv/83644101007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shared</a> several posts critical of the Trump administration&#8217;s immigration policy.
Despite any political differences, President Trump offered a congratulatory message after Leo was announced as the new pope.
“Congratulations to Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, who was just named Pope. It is such an honor to realize that he is the first American Pope. What excitement, and what a Great Honor for our Country. I look forward to meeting Pope Leo XIV. It will be a very meaningful moment!” Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114473380014194441" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> on Truth Social.
Trump also attended Francis’ funeral in Rome last month.
Vance congratulated the new pope the day he was elected.
&#8220;Congratulations to Leo XIV, the first American Pope, on his election! I’m sure millions of American Catholics and other Christians will pray for his successful work leading the Church. May God bless him!&#8221; Vance <a href="https://x.com/JDVance/status/1920550545061810261" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> on X.
During his last visit, Vance and his wife and children attended the Passion of Christ Mass celebrated by a cardinal marking Good Friday at St. Peter&#8217;s Basilica.

U.S. Vice President James David Vance, along with his wife

JD Vance To Attend Pope Leo XIV’s Inaugural Mass In Rome

JD Vance To Attend Pope Leo XIV's Inaugural Mass In Rome

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Catholic Church

Pope Leo

Religion

World

On Thursday, Vice President JD Vance brought back one of his signature lines when dismissing former President Joe Biden&#8217;s criticism of the Trump administration&#8217;s approach to the Ukraine-Russia war.
Vance responded to Biden <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0m9mvemxrwo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">telling</a> the BBC that the infamous White House <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-explodes-on-zelensky-for-making-the-worst-statement-on-the-ukraine-russia-war" target="_blank" rel="noopener">meeting</a> in which President Donald Trump and the vice president clashed with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky over ending the conflict was &#8220;beneath America.&#8221; Biden also claimed that Trump&#8217;s approach to Russia was &#8220;modern-day appeasement&#8221; during the interview.
&#8220;I think it&#8217;s rich for Joe Biden to comment on anything we&#8217;re doing when it comes to Russia and Ukraine because of course under Biden&#8217;s administration, Russia launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine,&#8221; Vance said to &#8220;The Story&#8221; anchor Martha MacCallum on Fox News.
&#8220;If we wanted to take advice from anybody on foreign policy, especially foreign policy in Europe, it would not be Joe Biden,&#8221; Vance continued. &#8220;So I wish Joe Biden the best. I don&#8217;t really care what he has to say about American foreign policy because so much of what he actually did was a total disaster.&#8221;
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JD Vance on Joe Biden: &#8220;He can spend his time on the beach&#8230;we&#8217;ll continue trying to fix the problems he created.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/IisC5epnAh">pic.twitter.com/IisC5epnAh</a>
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He added: &#8220;If we just did the opposite of what Joe Biden did, I think we&#8217;d have one of the most successful foreign policy administrations in a very long time. So he can spend his time on the beach or doing whatever Joe Biden does. We&#8217;ll continue trying to fix the problems that he created.&#8221;
Vance has used the &#8220;I really don&#8217;t care&#8221; line before to shrug off a topic of discussion. He notably <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jd-vance-blasts-margaret-brennan-over-claim-afghan-refugees-let-into-u-s-are-vetted" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, “I don’t really care, Margaret,” in January during an exchange over Afghan refugees with “Face The Nation” moderator Margaret Brennan on CBS.
Trump, who recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-ready-to-sign-minerals-deal-with-ukraine-as-soon-as-this-afternoon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">closed</a> a minerals agreement with Ukraine, provided an update earlier in the day on his administration&#8217;s efforts to end the years-long war.
&#8220;Talks with Russia/Ukraine continue. The U.S. calls for, ideally, a 30-day unconditional ceasefire. Hopefully, an acceptable ceasefire will be observed, and both Countries will be held accountable for respecting the sanctity of these direct negotiations. If the ceasefire is not respected, the U.S. and its partners will impose further sanctions,&#8221; Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114474136794655068" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on Truth Social.
&#8220;Thousands of young soldiers are dying on a weekly basis, and everybody should want it to STOP. I do, and the United States of America does, also,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;As President, I will stay committed to securing Peace between Russia and Ukraine, together with the Europeans, and a Lasting Peace it will be! This ceasefire must ultimately build toward a Peace Agreement. It can all be done very quickly, and I will be available on a moment’s notice if my services are needed. Thank you for your attention to this matter!&#8221;

US Vice President JD Vance

‘I Don’t Really Care,’ Biden: Vance Shuts Down Former President’s Ukraine Critique

Ukraine-Russia War

Vice President JD Vance said on Wednesday that he still views Europe as &#8220;on the same team&#8221; as the United States, adding that his recent criticism of the continent is not out of any animosity toward America&#8217;s longtime allies.
Vance made the remarks during a Munich Security Council Q&amp;A nearly three months after he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-people-have-a-voice-vance-warns-europe-about-censorship-the-threat-from-within" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ripped</a> European countries over censorship, immigration, and foreign policy at the Munich Security Conference.
&#8220;I still do very much think that the United States and Europe are on the same team,&#8221; Vance said. &#8220;Sometimes I&#8217;ve been criticized as a hyperrealist, [that] I think of foreign policy purely in terms of transactional values &#8230; and focus so purely on the transactional value of it that we ignore the humanitarian or the moral side of it. And I think at least with Europe that&#8217;s not a full encapsulation of my views.&#8221;
The vice president added that he believes the United States and Europe are connected by far more than transactional agreements.
&#8220;European civilization and American civilization, European culture and American culture are very much linked, and they&#8217;re always going to be linked,&#8221; Vance said. &#8220;And I think that it&#8217;s completely ridiculous to think you&#8217;re ever going to be able to drive a firm wedge between the United States and Europe.&#8221;
At the Munich Security Conference in February, Vance told the audience that he feared Europe was leaving behind its &#8220;fundamental values&#8221; that it shared with the United States, such as free speech and fair elections.
&#8220;The threat that I worry the most about vis-à-vis Europe is not Russia, it’s not China, it’s not any other external actor,&#8221; Vance <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/remarks/2025/02/remarks-by-vice-president-vance-at-the-munich-security-conference/">said</a> in the speech. &#8220;What I worry about is the threat from within, the retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values — values shared with the United States of America.&#8221;
The vice president acknowledged his February speech on Wednesday, saying that the United States and Europe will continue to &#8220;have disagreements&#8221; and criticize one another. He added, &#8220;I do think, fundamentally, we have to be and we are on the same civilizational team.&#8221;

JD Vance/Wolfgang Ischinger

Vance: U.S. And Europe Still ‘On The Same Team’

Europe

Foreign Policy

Vice President JD Vance said on Wednesday that the Trump administration thinks Russia is pushing for &#8220;too much&#8221; in the peace talks with Ukraine.
Vance spoke at a Munich Security Conference Q&amp;A, where he addressed numerous foreign policy issues, including the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine and the effort to negotiate a peace deal between the two countries. The vice president said that to end the war, President Donald Trump has been trying &#8220;to understand where the other side is coming from.&#8221; As peace talks have hit multiple roadblocks in Trump&#8217;s first 100 days in office, Vance said he isn&#8217;t giving up hope that the two countries can come to some sort of agreement.
&#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t say that the Russians are uninterested in bringing this thing to a resolution. What I would say is right now, the Russians are asking for a certain set of requirements, a certain set of concessions in order to end the conflict. We think they&#8217;re asking for too much,&#8221; the vice president said.
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The Trump administration is hoping to take a step back from mediating negotiations.
&#8220;We would like both the Russians and the Ukrainians to actually agree on some basic guidelines for sitting down and talking to one another,&#8221; Vance continued. &#8220;Obviously, the United States is happy to participate in those conversations, but it&#8217;s very important for the Russians and Ukrainians to start talking to one another.&#8221;
“We think it’s probably impossible for us to mediate this entirely without at least some direct negotiation between the two, and so that’s what we focus on,” Vance added.
The Trump administration has been talking to both Russian and Ukrainian leaders for months, seeking a way to end the war. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff recently spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow for the third time. Some of Russia&#8217;s demands include ensuring that Ukraine will never be admitted into NATO and the recognition of its occupation of Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula it invaded and annexed in 2014. Ukraine, meanwhile, continues to push for NATO membership, a request Trump said in February that Ukraine should &#8220;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgShN8V5dW0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">forget about</a>.&#8221;
Vance said that the Trump administration has &#8220;moved beyond&#8221; pushing for a 30-day ceasefire after those talks went nowhere with Russia.
&#8220;We&#8217;ve tried to move beyond the obsession with a 30-day ceasefire and more on what the long-term settlement would look like,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And we&#8217;ve tried to consistently advance the ball.&#8221;
The United States took a major step forward in talks with Ukraine last week, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-ready-to-sign-minerals-deal-with-ukraine-as-soon-as-this-afternoon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signing</a> a minerals agreement with Kyiv. The agreement provides Ukraine with continued military assistance in exchange for the United States getting access to some of Ukraine’s vital natural resources, including aluminum, graphite, oil, and natural gas.
Russia <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/russia-hits-u-s-over-minerals-deal-says-ukraine-is-about-to-disappear" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blasted</a> the minerals deal shortly after it was made, mocking President Trump and saying that Ukraine “is about to disappear.”

Vance Says Russia ‘Asking For Too Much’ In Ukraine Peace Talks

Global Politics

Russia

Ukraine

Vladimir Putin

President Donald Trump named Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio when asked who could become his successor.
Their names came up during an interview airing Sunday on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Meet The Press.&#8221;
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🚨 BREAKING: When asked about President Trump&#8217;s successor&#8230; he first and foremost names VP JD VANCE for 2028.
&#8220;It&#8217;s far too early to say that, but I do have a vice president and typically would be &#8211; and JD&#8217;s doing a fantastic job.&#8221;
&#8220;It could very well be. I don&#8217;t want to get… <a href="https://t.co/6nD1dZPbLK">pic.twitter.com/6nD1dZPbLK</a>
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Moderator Kristen Welker asked Trump who he sees as his successor after the first 100 days of his second term.
&#8220;Well, I — it&#8217;s far too early to say that. But you know, I do have a vice president, and typically — and JD&#8217;s doing a fantastic job,&#8221; Trump said.
&#8220;He would be at the top of the list?&#8221; Welker pressed.
&#8220;It could very well be,&#8221; Trump replied. &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to get involved in that. I think he&#8217;s a fantastic, brilliant guy. Marco is great. There&#8217;s a lot of them that are great.&#8221;
He added: &#8220;I also see tremendous unity. But certainly you would say that somebody&#8217;s the VP, if that person is outstanding, I guess that person would have an advantage. But I think the other people would all stay in unbelievably high positions. But you know, it could be that he&#8217;d be challenged by somebody. We have a lot of good people in this party.&#8221;
Trump also indicated that he has no intention of seeking a third term in the White House.
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&#8220;I&#8217;m looking to have four great years and turn it over to somebody — ideally a great Republican, a great Republican — to carry it forward,&#8221; says <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a>.
&#8220;Four years is plenty of time to do something really spectacular.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/pK6t6X3AiA">pic.twitter.com/pK6t6X3AiA</a>
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&#8220;Are you seriously considering a third term, Mr. President, even though it&#8217;s prohibited by the Constitution? Or is this about staying politically viable?&#8221; Welker asked.
&#8220;I will say this. So many people want me to do it. I have never had requests so strong as that. But it&#8217;s something that, to the best of my knowledge, you&#8217;re not allowed to do. I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s constitutional that they&#8217;re not allowing you to do it or anything else,&#8221; Trump said.
Trump noted there are &#8220;many people selling&#8221; 2028 hats.
&#8220;But this is not something I&#8217;m looking to do,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;I&#8217;m looking to have four great years and turn it over to somebody, ideally a great Republican, a great Republican to carry it forward. But I think we&#8217;re going to have four years, and I think four years is plenty of time to do something really spectacular.&#8221;
Welker again said the Constitution prohibits a third term.
&#8220;Have you – some of your allies are pretty serious about this, though, Mr. President. And I&#8217;ve spoken to them. They say they are coming up with potential ways, obviously the biggest one would be a constitutional amendment,&#8221; she said.
&#8220;That&#8217;s because they like the job I&#8217;m doing, and it&#8217;s a compliment. It&#8217;s really a great compliment,&#8221; Trump said.
&#8220;Has anyone in an official capacity presented you with, &#8216;Sir, here are some ideas by which you could actually get a constitutional amendment?'&#8221; Welker asked.
&#8220;Well, in a capacity of being a big supporter, many people have said different things, but, I&#8217;m not looking at that,&#8221; Trump said.

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