The vice president was expected to depart for Islamabad on Tuesday morning, but was in a holding pattern after it became unclear whether an Iranian delegation would show up.

Vice President JD Vance was forced to delay a trip to Pakistan for a second round of peace talks with Iran as war negotiations once again descended into farce.

The Marine Corps veteran was expected to depart for Islamabad on Tuesday morning, but was left waiting after it became unclear whether an Iranian delegation would show up.

As of late morning, Iran had not yet committed to sending officials to Pakistan, hours after Donald Trump insisted, yet again, that “we’ve totally won the war.”

But the White House was left scrambling after Tehran, which had initially told mediators it would send a delegation to Pakistan on Tuesday, later said it would do so only if the U.S. lifted its blockade of Iranian ports in the Strait of Hormuz.

The speaker of the nation’s parliament had also warned that the regime would not negotiate while being threatened by Trump—an apparent reference to the president’s rhetoric about “lots of bombs” going off if no deal was reached.

“Trump, by imposing a siege and violating the ceasefire, seeks to turn this negotiating table—in his own imagination—into a table of surrender or to justify renewed warmongering,” Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf wrote on X.

“We do not accept negotiations under the shadow of threats, and in the past two weeks, we have prepared to reveal new cards on the battlefield,” he concluded.

The latest whiplash over the war came as the fragile ceasefire was set to expire on Wednesday night.

Vance reportedly had his bags packed on Tuesday, but his motorcade was spotted arriving at the White House around lunchtime, where he was set to huddle with officials to work out the next steps.

He is still expected to head to Islamabad at some point, but it is not clear when he will depart.

Confusion also gripped Washington the day before, when Trump made conflicting claims about the whereabouts of his Vice President.

On Sunday, the president said Vance wasn’t going to Pakistan to lead the peace talks with Iran due to security issues, only for his press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, to tell other reporters on the record that Vance was going.

And on Monday, the befuddled president said Vance was in the air, only for his vice president to turn up at the White House.

Trump was nonetheless expressing confidence about the war when he phoned in to CNBC on Tuesday morning.

In a rambling interview, he boasted that he would secure a “great deal” with Iran but added that he had “all the time in the world” to end the war with Iran.

To assert his point, the president pulled out a list of wars and compared their time frames.

“I just looked at a little chart. World War One: four years and three months. World War Two, six years. Korean War, three years. Vietnam, 19 years. Iraq, eight years. I’m five months,” Trump said, despite the fact that the Iran conflict is now in its seventh week.

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“I mean, people can play games. The Democrats, they said, ‘Well, we should have done better.’ No matter what—if I did it in one week, people would have said I should have done better.”

Pakistan has urged the U.S. and Iran to extend the two-week cease-fire and continue to work toward a diplomatic solution.

But Trump told CNBC that he wants to make sure the threat from Iran ends, even if things don’t wrap up quickly. Asked if he would allow the ceasefire to continue, he said: “I don’t want to do that.”

President Donald Trump, 79, is set to emerge in public for the first time in three days amid concerns that he’s unraveling behind closed doors.

The last time the president was seen in public was Saturday morning, April 18, at the White House, where he signed an executive order directing regulators to speed up the review of psychedelic treatments.

Instead he peppered reporters with phone calls and posted or reposted repeatedly, more than 50 times since Saturday morning, on his Truth Social platform.

It comes as critics have raised the alarms about Trump’s increasingly erratic behavior, from his threatening posts to apparent confusion over Iran talks.

The president is set to make his first public appearance in more than three days on Tuesday afternoon at the White House, where he’ll deliver remarks to the NCAA collegiate national champions.

Since the president’s last appearance on Saturday morning, he’s fired off a series of angry social media posts taking aim at Iran, Democrats, NATO allies, Apple, promoting election conspiracy theories, and more.

At the same time, he exhibited signs of confusion in a series of phone interviews on Sunday and Monday.

First, the president told ABC News that Vice President JD Vance would not participate in the next round of talks in Islamabad. His White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt almost immediately corrected him, stating that Vance was traveling for the talks.

 

On Monday, the confusion continued when Trump claimed Vance was in the air, only for the vice president to show up at the White House.

The president has also made a series of bizarre claims on Tuesday when he called into CNBC, where he argued he would have won the Vietnam War “very quickly” if he were president, despite dodging the draft. He also lied about inflation and rambled at length on a series of other subjects.

It comes after a series of former Trump supporters turned critics have called for the 25th Amendment to be invoked to remove Trump from office after he threatened to wipe out Iranian civilization and target civilian infrastructure with profanity-filled posts as he struggled to get a peace deal.

On Saturday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Trump was purposefully kept from the room recently as the U.S. military worked to rescue downed airmen from Iran after he screamed at aides for hours.

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