That Washington Post content creator Marc Thiessen is out here lying wouldn't be worth commenting on if not for his reportedly being one of the main people who advised President Trump that striking Iran would
be a good time for all. So he needs to be corrected.
In a piece of content this week for the Post, Thiessen accused Vice President J.D. Vance — a favorite target of the thoroughly discredited neocons — of a "stunning act of disloyalty," citing Vance's post-midterms tweet about the election results. "Vance is publicly distancing himself from the person who plucked him from political obscurity, rescued his failing Senate campaign and then elevated him to the vice presidency," Thiessen wrote, probably while enduring a nasty bout of meat sweats. "It's an extraordinary act of disloyalty."
One of the things the data analysts on our side obsessed over was "composition"—whether the electorate looked close enough to 2024 for Republicans to win. And despite polls that showed a Democrat blowout, the data kept on telling us the same story: in some states turnout was…
— JD Vance (@JDVance) November 4, 2026
It's a wonder then that Thiessen claimed in his piece of content that Vance was "publicly disagreeing" with the president. He hadn't. He simply acknowledged reality. The war is unpopular, and voters were predictably, understandably responding to its fallout, especially surging gas prices, which have in turn continued to raise the price of everything else.
How many countries can one dude rep in a single bio? pic.twitter.com/o6SfX9VdOy
— Eddie Scarry (@eScarry) March 11, 2026
He even imagined what he would have liked Vance to say. "President Trump did the right thing, and I support him 100 percent," Thiessen said, conjuring up a J.D. Vance who doesn't exist. "Iran has been at war with us for 47 years, and Trump is the first president to fight back. It was the most courageous decision any president has made in my lifetime."
And I thought Pam Bondi was a clownish brown-noser.
This is the man who wrote before the war that there would be "no … downside to striking" Iran. Of course he's mad at anyone who would see the downsides, like Republicans losing control of the House, the Senate, several governorships, and state legislatures. Or, as Marc Thiessen might call that, small potatoes.
Like Vance said in his tweet, an honest person can insist the war is worth whatever price Trump or Republicans have to pay in electoral defeat. They surely believe it. But we're not talking about an honest person. We're talking about Washington Post neocon and content creator Marc Thiessen.
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