President Trump Sidelines JD Vance

President Trump is giving Vice President JD Vance a new focus: rooting out what he calls “Massive Corruption and Crime taking place in Democrat run Cities and States” (e.g., California, Illinois, and Minnesota). In the same Truth Social post, he also declared, “We don’t need a deal with Iran,” just one day after reports that Vance could lead renewed talks with Tehran.

But we should also remember Vance’s recent post where he literally wrote on X: “The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night.”

Trump later told 60 Minutes he didn’t disagree with Vance’s assessment. In fairness, that’s not the same as concurring with Vance. But Trump did say that he told the Vice President that if he had to attack Iran again, he would.

At the same time, there are also reports claiming that there was what’s being called a heated “shouting match” between President Trump and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over what the future of the war in Iran looks like. Prime Minister Netanyahu was allegedly pushing Trump for more military strikes against Iran.

Now the President has ordered Vice President Vance to drop the Iran issue altogether and focus on fraud and corruption. These are very valid problems that need to be rooted out and stopped, but for some reason, this almost feels like a demotion.

Could this signal a splintering between the President and Vice President? And if that were indeed the case, what would it mean for the 2028 presidential election? Would Vance lose Trump’s support? It’s not like we haven’t seen it in the past.

President Trump very publicly fell out with his previous Vice President, and it would not be all that surprising to see him make some changes that would position someone else to take over his position in two years.

You also have people wondering, who’s in the President’s ear? Is it JD Vance who obviously elevated that conversation? Is it Secretary of State Marco Rubio? Or is it now Stephen Miller, the White House Chief of Staff, who clearly seems to be having a moment? And how will it affect the relationship between the President and Vance over the next two years?

Today’s Sekulow broadcast included more analysis of President Trump’s announcement that he has ordered Vice President Vance to abandon his work on Iran and to focus all his energy on domestic crime.

Watch the full broadcast below: