Donald Trump went on yet another social media bender on Sunday night. Hours after dismissing the Iranian response to the latest set of American peace proposals as “TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE”, he spent the rest of the evening re-posting memes about his own personal greatness.
“Trump is without a doubt the greatest president we have ever known”, declared one posting at 9.44pm. Forty-five minutes later, the US leader endorsed another image declaring him to be not only “the greatest of all time”, but insisting that “over 80 million voters will never leave him”.
That bold claim will be sorely tested when November’s mid-term elections serve as a referendum on his presidency.
Of course, a serious politician would have spent the evening knuckling down, burning the midnight oil with phone calls to allies and engaging in committed, rigorous diplomacy with the Iranians. But why waste a Sunday night that could be spent doom-scrolling and meme-posting instead?
As the world endures the economic nightmare sparked by Trump’s war, watching his flailing efforts to identify an exit strategy is like watching Groundhog Day. The president struggles to persuade Iran to accept peace terms that look almost identical to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the internationally backed nuclear deal that Trump eviscerated during his first term in power.
The Iranians spend a few days pretending they are serious about the conversation, then reject Washington’s terms as uninteresting and send everyone back to square one. The Iranians know they’ve got Trump where they want him. The longer they can inflict economic pain on American voters, the more pressure will mount on the White House to capitulate. Six months before the midterms, and with thousands of ballistic missiles remaining in their arsenal, Tehran calculates it can afford to wait Trump out.
If the situation is confounding to Trump, it is devastating for his deputy. Vice President JD Vance, in his second full year a heartbeat away from the presidency, surely knows his own aspirations to sit behind the Resolute Desk are evaporating with each passing day. Just a month ago, Vance was in the catbird seat, leading a delegation at peace talks with the Iranians in Islamabad and hoping to bring home a piece of paper that would prove more resilient than the document Neville Chamberlain brandished after his September 1938 talks with Hitler in Munich.
In the event, Vance returned with nothing. His humiliation then deepened, as he spent days in Washington standing by for the chance to return to Pakistan for subsequent talks, while Tehran toyed with him like a cat with a mouse. One month on, Vance – who assured the ‘Make America Great Again’ faithful that Trump would never lead the country to war against Iran, arguing that it would be“massively expensive” and “a huge distraction of resources” – is completely unable to capitalise on his 2024 campaign trail prescience.
Instead, MAGA accuses him of betrayal. Other missteps, including his catastrophic 11th-hour visit to Hungary to back now-former Prime Minister Viktor Orban, are a ball-and-chain causing his own his own poll numbers to crater as fast as those of the president he serves. Worse still, Trump no longer even pretends that Vance is a central player in the Iran drama. Negotiations appear once again to be the preserve of Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, the president’s wealthy real estate mucker and his son-in-law respectively.
The American poet Ogden Nash published a 1957 collection of verse entitled “You Can’t Get There From Here”. It’s a phrase that now applies equally to both Vance and the president he serves. Both men are now trapped in dead ends of their own humiliating creation.
For Trump, there is no way out of the Iran conundrum unless he bows to at least some of Tehran’s demands. For Vance, there is no path to succeed Trump unless the Iran crisis abates and other events create rapid opportunities for him to exploit. Bound together, Trump and Vance are two sides of the same increasingly tarnished coin. Still, at least Truth Social’s meme factories remain hard at work.
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