In a world filled with weak-willed politicians and foreign policy blunders, Vice President JD Vance is standing by a commander-in-chief who still knows how to wield American power with principle and precision. In a Friday Fox News interview, just one day before President Trump greenlit a high-stakes strike on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure, Vance revealed his simple but powerful advice to the president: *“Trust your instincts.”*
And rightly so — Trump’s instincts have never failed him when it comes to putting America First.
Appearing on *Special Report with Bret Baier*, Vance told Fox correspondent Bill Melugin that the president’s judgment, particularly when the stakes are high, is second to none. “He’s got the best instincts of any president I’ve ever seen, of any political leader that I’ve ever seen,” Vance said.
The former Marine and conservative senator-turned-VP made it clear that Trump’s decision to hit Iran’s nuclear program was not a rush to war — it was the exact opposite. It was a disciplined, strategic move after exhausting every diplomatic avenue with a regime that has spent decades chanting “Death to America” and funding terror from Gaza to Baghdad.
“I think he knows when diplomacy has run its course,” Vance said. “And he’ll know when, ultimately, he has to employ the American military to make sure that Iran doesn’t have a nuclear program.”
And that’s exactly what Trump did: he sent a clear message to Tehran’s tyrants with a limited, tactical strike — bunker-busting bombs and submarine-launched Tomahawks aimed squarely at Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Not at their people. Not at regime change. Just a clean hit on a looming threat.
Vance emphasized that the Trump administration is still giving diplomacy a chance — but with a firm hand on the throttle. “He’s going to continue working this process,” the VP said. “He’s going to let the diplomatic process unfold. And in the meantime… \[he] can do whatever he needs to do to keep the American people safe.”
It’s a refreshing shift from the Obama-Biden era, where weakness was mistaken for wisdom, and Iranian promises were treated like sacred covenants. Trump, by contrast, understands peace doesn’t come from groveling — it comes from strength.
Vance made it clear that if Iran continues to drag its feet, more decisive action may be on the table. “Once he decides that diplomacy has completely run its course… then I think the president is going to do what he needs to do to end Iranian enrichment and end that Iranian nuclear program,” he warned.
In his final comments, Vance echoed what many Americans are thinking: time is running out. “Again, the president will make that final decision. I do think that we’re running out of time,” he said. “But… he wants to give it a little bit more time to see what diplomacy can accomplish.”
In short, this is what real leadership looks like: strength with restraint, wisdom backed by firepower, and a refusal to let America sleepwalk into danger. The Biden days of coddling Iran are over — and the world is finally taking notice.
