President Trump said in an interview with “60 Minutes” that aired on Sunday that he agreed with Vice President JD Vance’s assessment that the Iran war and the US relationship with Israel hurt the Republicans in the midterm elections, but said that he wished the vice president would say whether he would attack Iran again.
“The only thing I wish he would’ve said there, if he felt it, and you’d have to ask him about that, but if you had to do it again, would you do it? You know, he’s part of a decision-making process,” Trump said.
While the president has also acknowledged that the war played a major role in the midterms, he has defended his decision to launch it, saying that he had to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, but there was no evidence either before the June 2025 war or the current conflict that Tehran had decided to pursue a bomb.
Media reports have portrayed Vance as a skeptic of the war, though he played a leading role in pushing war propaganda in the days before the start of the US-Israeli bombing campaign, claiming on February 25 that there was “evidence” Iran was “rebuilding a nuclear weapon.”
In the 60 Minutes interview, Trump also said that there was a “great dislike” of Israel among US voters, comments that were highlighted by Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.
“POTUS clearly recognizes that the vast majority of Americans are disgusted with Israel. Strikingly, he seems confused about why that’s the case,” Araghchi wrote X. “Americans are evidently sick and tired of Israel bamboozling US administrations into Forever Wars. They had enough. So has our region.”
