White House leaks reveal Trump officials are fearing the worst

U.S. President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance with Democratic Republic of the Congo's Foreign Minister Therese Kayikwamba in the White House Oval Office, June 27, 2025. REUTERS/Ken Cedeno

After Russian forces, on orders from President Vladimir Putin, invaded Ukraine in February 2022, JD Vance famously declared, "I don't really care what happens to Ukraine one way or another…. I'm sick of (President) Joe Biden focusing on the border of a country I don't care about while he lets the border of his own country become a total war zone."

Vance, at that point, was playing up to the isolationist "America First" views of the MAGA movement. But now, as vice president, the "Hillbilly Elegy" author and former U.S. senator is a cheerleader for President Donald Trump's interventionist policies with Iran and Venezuela — at least publicly.

According to Politico sources, Vance privately expressed strong reservations about going to war with Iran. And Bloomberg News reporter Matthew Yglesias believes that the White House leak reported by Politico speaks volumes about the second Trump Administration.

In an article published on Friday morning, March 13, Politico reporters Diana Nerozzi and Eli Stokols explain, "Vice President JD Vance was skeptical of the U.S. striking Iran in the leadup to President Donald Trump's decision to launch the war, two senior Trump officials told Politico. Vance, who has long questioned U.S. intervention abroad, has publicly defended Trump's Iran operation. But White House officials revealed that the vice president made his opposition known in the leadup, pulling the curtain open after months of speculation about Vance being far more tepid about military action than Trump."

One of the Trump officials, interviewed on condition of anonymity, told Politico that Vance was "skeptical" and "worried about success" and "just opposes" going to war against Iran.

The other Trump official told Politico, "(Vance's) role is to provide the president and the administration, you know, all points of views of what could happen from many different angles — and, you know, he does that. But once the decision has been made, he's fully on board."

Yglesias was quick to respond to Politico's reporting.

In a March 13 post on X, formerly Twitter, the Bloomberg News reporter tweeted, "This kind of leaking suggests a White House team that knows things aren't going to get better soon."

Journalist Will Fritz weighed in on Politico's reporting as well, tweeting, "Vance should know from the extremely recent example of Kamala Harris that no one [cares] how much you privately disagreed with the president! Your administration's actions will be tied around your neck for the rest of your political career."

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