WH maintains Trump consistent in firm stance on Iran nukes — and shows off receipts

The White House is moving to amusement President Donald Trump's accordant stance against Iran obtaining a atomic weapon, arsenic critics look from some sides of the aisle. On Tuesday, the White House’s accelerated effect squad released a bid of 30 clips connected X showing Trump’s statements implicit the years connected the dangers of Iran getting a atomic weapon.

President Donald Trump speaks during an lawsuit to motion a measure blocking California's regularisation banning the merchantability of caller gas-powered cars by 2035, successful the East Room of the White House, Thursday, June 12, 2025, successful Washington.  (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

TRUMP'S 14-YEAR HISTORY OPPOSING IRANIAN NUKES COUNTERS MEDIA SPIN HE'D ALLOW THEM

In October 2023, conscionable days aft Hamas’ brutal massacre successful Israel, Trump told a assemblage astatine a run rally that Iran could not beryllium allowed to make atomic weapons.

"Don’t fto Iran person atomic weapons. That’s my lone happening I person to archer you today. Don’t fto them person it," Trump said astatine the Oct. 16, 2023, Iowa rally.

Then successful January 2024, Trump said, "I conscionable don’t privation them to person a atomic weapon, and they weren’t going to person one."

A fewer months later, successful June 2024, during an quality connected the podcast "All-In," Trump told the hosts that Iran could not beryllium allowed to make a atomic weapon.

"The main happening is Iran can't person a atomic weapon. That was my main thing. The woody was a elemental deal. Iran can't person a nuclear. You know, it can't person a missile, it can't person a atomic missile. It cannot person that atomic capability," Trump told the podcast hosts.

 Fire and fume emergence into the entity aft an Israeli onslaught connected the Shahran lipid depot connected June 15, 2025, successful Tehran, Iran. (Stringer/Getty Images)

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The astir caller clip was from May 2025 successful which Trump told the Saudi-U.S. Investment Forum that "Iran tin person a overmuch brighter aboriginal — but we’ll ne'er let America and its allies to beryllium threatened with coercion oregon a atomic attack… they cannot person a atomic weapon."

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Vice President JD Vance besides commented connected the contention regarding Trump’s stance connected Iran’s atomic ambitions. Vance defended his boss’ Iran presumption arsenic being focused lone connected "using the American subject to execute American people's goals."

He besides described Trump arsenic idiosyncratic who "has been amazingly consistent, implicit 10 years, that Iran cannot person a atomic weapon."

"I person yet to spot a azygous bully statement for wherefore Iran needed to enrich uranium good supra the threshold for civilian use. I've yet to spot a azygous bully statement for wherefore Iran was justified successful violating its non-proliferation obligations. I've yet to spot a azygous bully pushback against the IAEA's findings," Vance wrote connected X.

ONLY THE US MILITARY CAN TAKE OUT IRAN’S ‘MOST DANGEROUS’ NUCLEAR SITE

U.S. President Donald Trump signs a proclamation declaring his volition to retreat from the JCPOA Iran atomic statement successful the Diplomatic Room astatine the White House successful Washington, U.S., May 8, 2018.  (REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst)

Although the White House team’s clips day backmost to 2023, determination is adjacent earlier grounds that Trump was against Iran having a atomic weapon. 

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In 2018, during his archetypal word successful office, Trump withdrew from the Obama-era Iran atomic deal, known arsenic the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). At the time, Trump called the JCPOA "one of the worst and astir one-sided transactions the United States has ever entered into."

The White House merchandise connected the U.S. withdrawal from the woody has respective references to Trump’s absorption to Iran processing a atomic weapon. At 1 constituent it says that "Trump is committed to ensuring Iran has nary imaginable way to a atomic weapon."