Megyn Kelly Asks JD Vance Point-Blank If Trump Is Wasting Time On Foreign Policy

SiriusXM host Megyn Kelly pressed Vice President J.D. Vance about whether President Donald Trump was focusing too much on foreign policy during an interview that aired Wednesday.

Iranian forces attempted to seize an American oil tanker Tuesday, shortly after a United States Marine Corps F-35 shot down an Iranian drone approaching the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln. Vance told Kelly during Wednesday’s episode of “The Megyn Kelly Show” that President Donald Trump’s primary focus was “the home front.”

“What are we talking about Iran for? What do you mean America first? Let’s focus on our own problems, affordability, all these things,” Kelly said. “They think President Trump spent too much time focused on overseas issues anyway and they definitely don’t want to get involved in Iran. And then there’s a larger faction, another faction, that is also large that’s more neocon-y that says, ‘We missed an opportunity. We let those protesters down. You know, the window’s closing. We should be more aggressive militarily than we are right now.’ Where do you fall?”

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Trump has repeatedly boasted that he has ended multiple wars, and also directed a strike on Iranian nuclear facilities in Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan related to Iran’s effort to develop nuclear weapons in June.

“First of all, I hear the criticisms out there that the administration is too focused on foreign policy. I just have to defend the president. I don’t think that’s true,” Vance responded. “I think that certainly when you’re the president of the United States, you do have to conduct foreign policy. We’re the most powerful country in the world.”