Vance said he can "empathize with Americans who are exhausted after 25 years of foreign entanglements...But the difference is that back then, we had dumb presidents."

Vice President JD Vance was criticized after he slammed previous presidents as “dumb” for how they handled past conflicts in the Middle East. President Donald Trump announced Saturday that the U.S. struck Iranian nuclear sites after days of threatening the country with a possible attack.

Vice President JD Vance has attempted to draw a distinction between Donald Trump ’s attack on Iran and George W Bush ’s War on Terror by arguing that “back then, we had dumb presidents.” Speaking to Kristen Welker on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday morning,