Vice President JD Vance is facing online mockery after a boast about the recent Iran deal backfired.
Vance went on Fox & Friends Weekend on Saturday morning to tout Trump's new Iran deal. He told the Fox program, "My understanding, talking to Steve and Jared this morning, is that things are going well," referring to Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner.
"The United States has all the cards," Vance continued. "The straits are now open."
Less than a few hours after he made those comments, Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz, and online commentators let him have it.
"How humiliating," writer Polly Sigh reacted on X.
"Steve and Jared - the two who completely bungled these negotiations from the start which led us into this mess," added MeidasTouch, a political news network.
"Talking to Steve and Jared. Good lord," wrote Missouri Democratic congressional candidate Fred Wellman.
"He's not a particularly good liar," veteran journalist Bill Kristol said. "But he's certainly a shameless one."
"Believe nothing that comes out of his mouth," Middle East and geopolitical analyst Matthew RJ Brodsky posted.
" Trump has given Vance enough rope to hang himself," economist and author Anders Aslund wrote. "Witkoff and Kushner are no negotiators, nor knowledgeable. The US has no cards."
"We said Uno. Iran said Draw Four," writer and podcaster Hemant Mehta posted, playing off Vance's card metaphor.
"It might be time to retire the 'we have all the cards' metaphor," University of Ottawa professor Roland Paris suggested. "Given how obviously the administration is being outplayed by those who supposedly don't have any cards."
Norman Ornstein, a political scientist and contributing editor for The Atlantic, simply reacted, "Hahahahahahahahaha."
