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Trump's Sabotage?

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Liz Wolfe | 6.23.2026 9:30 AM

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Trump can't stop getting in Vance's way: It's hard to know, when it comes to President Donald Trump, what exactly is deliberate and what's not. He's either a man with shockingly poor impulse control or an especially skilled master manipulator. (I assume more of the former, but your assessment may vary.)

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The latest example of this involves Trump, while Vice President J.D. Vance was still working with Iranian negotiators over the weekend, getting on Fox News and saying he told the Iranians, "You close it [the Strait of Hormuz], and you won't have a country. You won't even make it back to your fucking country."

It's possible this is a classic example of good cop/bad cop, all orchestrated in advance. Or it's possible Trump's impulse control issues are getting in the way of Vance's negotiating. Or it's possible........

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