Questions JD Vance Should Answer as He Comes Out of Hiding Arrow

After Donald Trump started a war with Iran this past weekend, "vice troll-in-chief" JD Vance has so far been silent on the administration's authorized combat operations in Iran. Tonight, Vance is doing his first interview in days - on Fox News - and he owes the American people answers on why he flip-flopped on his "anti-war," "pro-peace" stance.

On the campaign trail, Trump, Vance, Stephen Miller, and other Trump allies repeatedly said the Trump-Vance ticket was the pro-peace ticket, and that Trump would not start new wars. Vance specifically told voters, "Our interest very much is in not going to war with Iran. It would be a huge distraction of resources. It would be massively expensive to our country."

In response, DNC Chair Ken Martin released the following statement:

"It's been over 48 hours since the Trump administration started a war in the Middle East with shifting explanations for the justification and what comes next. Usually chronically online to defend even the worst of the Trump administration's policies, JD Vance has so far been silent, and he owes Americans an explanation for why he went back on his word to avoid wars that would cost taxpayer dollars and put service members at risk. Vance knows this is another massive betrayal of the American people, including his own supporters, after he sold the Trump-Vance ticket as 'pro-peace.'"

Vance also told voters during the 2024 election that Trump is "the candidate of peace" and even said, "one of the biggest and most important arguments I can make for Donald Trump is I really believe that he is the candidate of peace." Vance continued to make this claim during their first year in office, saying that, "peace is in the interest of the American people" and repeatedly hailing Trump as the "president of peace." Just last week, Vance said that he still sees himself as a "skeptic of foreign military interventions."

Trump and Vance have betrayed Americans again - including their own supporters - after promising to be an anti-interventionist administration. No president in modern history has ordered more military strikes against as many different countries as the Trump-Vance administration. Trump has attacked seven countries, in addition to his strikes on boats in the Pacific and Caribbean, ordering more individual air strikes in 2025 alone than were authorized between 2021 and 2025.