Trump claims US does not need Iran deal, tells Vance to focus on alleged corruption

President Donald Trump said Thursday that the United States does not need a deal with Iran and directed Vice President JD Vance to focus his efforts instead on battling alleged corruption and fraud in Democratic-run cities and states.

The president said the time for making a deal with Iran has passed and indicated that the U.S. should be focused on working on solving domestic issues like combating fraud in states like California and Minnesota.

The comment comes after Vance last week said the Iran war is part of the reason that Republicans lost in the midterms.

"We don’t need a deal with Iran," the president wrote on Truth Social. "Those days have long since passed. We’ve got their money, hundreds of billions of dollars, and we’ve got their Strait!"

Trump said he has asked Vance, who led the Iran peace negotiations in April that resulted in a brief ceasefire, to focus his energy on corruption, stating that corruption is in "Democrat Leadership’s blood."

"I have asked Vice President Vance to focus his complete and total attention on the Massive Corruption and Crime taking place in Democrat run Cities and States throughout the U.S," he said. "The blue states, such as Minnesota, California, Illinois, and many more, are all poorly run, corrupt disasters. Billions of Dollars is being stolen each and every month. 

"Our Budget could be quickly balanced with the correction of this large-scale criminal activity," he continued. "Corruption is in the Democrat Leadership’s blood." 

Vance already leads the administration's Task Force to Eliminate Fraud.

Misty Severi is a news reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.