Jessica Tarlov
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And I...
I don't know who the adults in the room are anymore.
Apparently, JD Vance, live from Hungary, where he's out there campaigning for Viktor Orban, was a key player in these negotiations.
And I thought the fact that he was involved in it signified something important about his role.
But I can see that.
maybe he becomes the fall guy for this?
Like, over the course of the next couple of days, if the criticisms mount to the level I imagine that they will, that the ceasefire is not ceasing anything, right?
So the war is continuing, except we're just paying more to the Iranians for the tankers to get through.
Like you said, the global trade order going without us, France and Japan, et cetera.
And then does Trump just turn around and say, J.D., this is your fault, right?
I'm not sure.
And there was thisβMaggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan have a book coming out in June, and they dropped an excerpt of it yesterday, and it's about this meeting that took place before we started the strikes where B.B.
was actually in the Situation Room.
I'm not sure if you saw it, butβ
You have everybody in the administration, except for Hegseth and Trump, on record saying, we think that this is a disaster.
Ratcliffe says it's farcical, the idea that we could go in and accomplish the set of goals that Bibi was feeding Trump, that we would be able to.
And so I don't know if heads are going to roll within our own admin because of this, but it seems like mistakes were made at every turn.
We've been down this road before with Republican criticism of Trump, especially from the kind of wonky America first wing, you know, seeing Alex Jones and Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson and those types jumping on this Trump has got to go bandwagon.
It's, you know, fun for clicks and things like that.
I'm not sure how much it really means.