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Vice President JD Vance brushed aside concerns over President Donald Trump\u2019s comments<\/a> about not thinking \u201cabout Americans\u2019 financial situations\u201d while negotiating with Iran\u2014calling it a \u201cmisrepresentation of what the president said\u201d and backing Trump\u2019s goals of preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.<\/p>\n Vance speaks at a news conference on Wednesday.<\/p>\n Getty ImagesKey Facts<\/p>\n When asked at a Wednesday news conference<\/a> if he agrees with Trump\u2019s statements on Tuesday, Vance said, \u201cI don\u2019t think the president said that\u2014I think that\u2019s a misrepresentation of what the president said.\u201d<\/p>\n Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Trump said \u201cI don\u2019t think about Americans\u2019 financial situations, I don\u2019t think about anybody\u201d when going into negotiations with Iran, and instead was only concerned with preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, even as inflation has increased and gas prices have soared as a result of the Iran war.<\/p>\n Vance said he agreed with Trump\u2019s position that \u201cIran should not have a nuclear weapon.\u201d<\/p>\n The vice president said the U.S. was \u201cengaged in a very aggressive and very engaged diplomatic process\u201d to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuke, with the \u201cfundamental goal\u201d of keeping Americans safe.<\/p>\n Crucial Quote<\/p>\n \u201cThe goal of preventing nuclear proliferation is probably the single most important thing we can do to keep our people safe for the long term, it\u2019s absolutely a worthy goal,\u201d Vance told reporters at a press conference, which was called to discuss the Trump administration\u2019s investigations into Medicaid fraud. \u201cBut of course the president, and I and the entire team, we care about the American peoples\u2019 financial situations, it\u2019s one of the reasons why we passed the working families tax cut, it\u2019s one of the reasons why we\u2019re so focused on fraud. We care about how the American people are doing economically.\u201d<\/p>\n Key Background<\/p>\n Speaking to reporters on Tuesday before leaving for his trip to China, Trump was asked about whether Americans\u2019 financial situations were motivating him to reach a deal with Iran. Trump immediately answered they were \u201cnot even a little bit,\u201d before insisting preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon was \u201cthe only thing that matters when I\u2019m talking about Iran.\u201d The Trump administration is facing dropping approval ratings<\/a>, especially around the economy and cost of living, as disruptions to the Strait of Hormuz have pushed the price of oil and gasoline up since the war began on Feb. 28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Topline Vice President JD Vance brushed aside concerns over President Donald Trump\u2019s comments about not thinking \u201cabout Americans\u2019…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[54,42,117780,11487,43,8717,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-440261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-donald-trump","tag-headlines","tag-iran-war","tag-jd-vance","tag-news","tag-nuclear-weapons","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}