Having fun with nuclear warfare: Trump jokes about the red button with Vance and posts ‘Bomb Iran’ video on X

President Donald Trump on Saturday decided to get the United States directly involved in the conflict between Israel and Iran with the bombing of three Iranian nuclear facilities. He claimed that the attacks had “completely and totally obliterated” the targets.

Just two days later, he posted on social media that the two sides had agreed to a ceasefire to what he dubbed ‘The 12 Day War.” However, neither was completely true as initial US intelligence said that Iran’s underground facilities were still intact and the two parties were still exchanging hostilities.

Both drew rebuke from the White House, with White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt calling the leaked intelligence reports “flat-out wrong” and Trump dropping an F-bomb on the White House lawn saying the two sides don’t know what they are doing. The former it should be noted that the CIA director said that his agency “can confirm that a body of credible intelligence indicates Iran’s Nuclear Program has been severely damaged by the recent, targeted strikes.”

While the Trump administration is trying de-escalate the situation, the President and his number two, Vice President JD Vance, thought it would be a good time to ruffle some feathers with some ill-timed war humor.

Trump posts video of parody song ‘Bomb Iran’

Trump declared on Monday that both Israel and Iran had agreed to a ceasefire, saying that the Islamic Republic would go first stopping its attacks on Israel and then “upon the 12th Hour, Israel will start the CEASEFIRE.” According to him, within 24 hours all hostilities would be over. However, the belligerent parties had other ideas.

That caused a rare singling out of Israel in his rebuke of the two adversaries for the continued fighting on Monday morning. “Israel, as soon as we made the deal, they came out and they dropped a load of bombs, the likes of which I’ve never seen before,” he said, adding, “I’m not happy with Israel.”

He then went on to say, “we have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the f*** they’re doing.”

While the two nations seemed to heed Trump’s calls to stop fighting and the idea is to calm tensions between all parties involved, Trump apparently felt some need to post on Truth Social Tuesday evening the 1980 parody song ‘Bomb Iran’ by Vince Vance & the Valiants along with a compilation video of B-2 stealth fighter jets dropping bombs, the same kind that were used to bomb Iran on Saturday.

JD Vance jokes about ‘nuclear’ red button

The same evening, Vance was in Ohio delivering the keynote address at state’s Republican Party dinner where he shared an anecdote from first days in the White House. He told the audience that he was in the Oval Office with Trump and that they were on speakerphone with an unnamed foreign world leader.

“It’s a tough phone call, there were some issues we have to work through,” Vance explained. Trump asked Vance to come sit behind him at the Resolute Desk in case he wanted to pipe in on the conversation. Once in position he noticed a wooden box on the desk with a red button as said to himself, “that’s probably not a button that you want to push, right?”

As the conversation went on, Vance recalled how the president turned around to look at him, put the speakerphone on mute and said, “this is not going very well,” and then pressed the red button.

“My eyes get really big,” Vance continued. “And I’m like, ‘Mr. President, you know… What just happened?’ And he looks at me and goes, ‘Nuclear. Nuclear.’”

“And two minutes later, a guy walks in with a Diet Coke. He looks back at me and says, it wasn’t nuclear. It’s the Diet Coke button,” Vance said.

“That’s the kind of guy, my fellow Republicans, that we have as the president of the United States,” he concluded.

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