{"id":7236,"date":"2026-06-18T15:25:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T12:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/?p=7236"},"modified":"2026-06-18T15:25:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T12:25:27","slug":"trump-jokes-hell-blame-aide-if-iran-deal-falls-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/trump-jokes-hell-blame-aide-if-iran-deal-falls-apart\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Jokes He&#8217;ll Blame Aide If Iran Deal Falls Apart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>President Donald Trump delivered a lighthearted response Wednesday when questioned about his decision to send Vice President JD Vance to a formal signing ceremony for the Iran peace agreement rather than attending himself, joking that the arrangement provides him with political cover regardless of the outcome.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to <em>New York Post<\/em>, Trump quipped that he would take full credit if the deal succeeds but shift responsibility to his vice president if it fails.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Donald Trump<\/strong> addressed reporters at a press conference where he was asked whether skipping Friday&#8217;s formal signing ceremony in favor of dispatching Vance was a strategic move to create political distance from the agreement.<\/p>\n<p>The president responded affirmatively to the suggestion, saying he appreciated the idea and noting it would allow him to claim success while deflecting any potential failure onto his second-in-command.<\/p>\n<p><em>This way, if it works out, I&#8217;m going to take the credit. If it doesn&#8217;t work out, I&#8217;m blaming JD,<\/em> Trump said during the exchange.<\/p>\n<p>The president continued his jovial remarks by cautioning Vance directly about the responsibility he was assuming, suggesting the vice president might want to reconsider his travel plans.<\/p>\n<p>Trump indicated that under such circumstances, Vance would be wise to turn his aircraft around and depart quickly, reaffirming his approval of the arrangement as sound strategy.<\/p>\n<p>The comments reflect the president&#8217;s characteristic approach to high-stakes diplomatic negotiations, mixing humor with calculated political positioning as his administration pursues a significant foreign policy achievement with Tehran.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right\"><em>With information from <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Post<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump joked he would take credit if the Iran peace deal succeeds but blame Vice President Vance if it fails, explaining why he sent Vance to Friday&#8217;s ceremony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":7235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[196,7275,277,4810,7285,209],"nfg_topic":[135],"class_list":["post-7236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-iran-peace-deal","tag-operation-in-iran","tag-political-strategy","tag-signing-ceremony","tag-united-states","nfg_topic-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7429,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7236\/revisions\/7429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7236"},{"taxonomy":"nfg_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nfg_topic?post=7236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}