David Pakman

And we've seen this play out in a lot of different ways.

Now, put yourself in Trump's shoes for a second.

with the lifts that he puts in his shoes and everything.

Put yourself in his shoes.

The messaging discipline is something he expects publicly, even if he is very chaotic in his messaging.

If J.D.

Vance is out there effectively acknowledging a longer timeline than what people were told

There are a couple of possibilities.

He is doing something he's not supposed to be doing.

He's admitting something is not supposed to be admitting or the timeline has genuinely changed and he is admitting it.

Either way, it's a potential problem for J.D.

Vance.

Trump reacts very strongly when he thinks someone is creating a narrative that he can't control or that he can't spin.

So whether this question was like a slip in J.D.

Vance's messaging, the beginning of a recognition that this is going to be a longer haul than we were told, I don't know.

But when the timeline starts stretching from weeks into years, the framing of what is happening starts to look very different than what the public was told.

This is the kind of moment where the internal cracks explode and they are supposed to be aligned.

But they don't seem to be.

So when you hear a year or two, maybe it's a limit.

It's like it's still going to be three to four weeks, but absolutely not more than a year or two.