After reading examples of Trump administration figures previously promising to avoid war, podcaster Shawn Ryan says “every single one of these things is a complete fucking lie”
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From the March 19, 2026, edition of Vigilance Elite's The Shawn Ryan Show
SHAWN RYAN (HOST): Here's what they said on the campaign trail.
Trump adviser Stephen Miller on X: Liz Cheney is Kamala's top adviser. Liz wants to invade the whole Middle East. Kamala equals World War III. Trump equals peace.
Tulsi Gabbard, October 28, 2024: A vote for Kamala Harris is a vote for Dick Cheney and a vote for war, war, and more war. A vote for Donald Trump is a vote to end wars. Not start them.
Miller also wrote: Kamala will send your sons to war.
J.D. Vance 2023 on The Wall Street Journal: Trump's best foreign policy: not starting any wars. He has my support, because I know he won't recklessly send Americans to fight wars overseas.
The Republican National Committee promoted Trump-Vance as the pro-peace ticket.
Trump on October 30, 2024: They're all warhawks when they're sitting in Washington in a nice building saying, in quote, "Oh gee, let's send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy."
Pete Hegseth, December 2025 speech: Our department will not be distracted by democracy-building interventionism, undefined wars, and regime change.
Every single one of these things is a complete fucking lie.
MICHAEL LESTER (GUEST): Don't forget, you're, you're missing a great one. During the Biden administration, Trump said, this President is going to drive us into war because he doesn't know how to negotiate. Oh, I think he said it into war with Iran, because he doesn't know how to negotiate. Well —
RYAN: Here we are.