Jen Psaki

And with Iran leveraging the Strait of Hormuz, that economic pain isn't going away anytime soon.

So for most presidents, I mean, this would be a moment where you hunker down with your national security team and your economic team and figure out how the heck to get out of this mess.

That's what you would do.

But that wasn't Donald Trump's approach, because tonight he spent his time at a million dollar per person fundraising dinner for his super PAC being held at his winery in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Now, on his way, he answered some questions from reporters and once again repeated his completely made up claims that Iran was militarily defeated and that the Strait of Hormuz would somehow open up automatically.

And all of this fabricated bluster was even more bizarre, given there is a U.S.

delegation led by his own vice president on its way to Pakistan for negotiations to end the war and open the strait.

Or that's their goal.

And yet Trump doesn't seem to be at all bothered by the stakes.

You don't need a backup plan.

I think you surely do need a backup plan.

I mean, that's certainly putting a lot of pressure on the guy Trump has tapped to be the central player of these negotiations very much on purpose.

And there's no evidence to date that Vance is up to the task or frankly interested in the task, to be honest at all.

Remember, this is what he said when asked about a key detail of the ceasefire on Wednesday.

I haven't been involved in the war the guy I work with started because I've been busy campaigning for an authoritarian sweetheart in Hungary, as one does.

So what exactly has J.D.

Vance been involved in?

Well, here's how he described his role in the talk so far.

And again, I'm happy about where we are.

Isn't that nice?