Vice President JD Vance during the graduation ceremony Thursday, May 28, 2026, at Air Force Academy, Colo.. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)JD Vance has been hit with an epic community note on X after claiming World War 2 ended with a negotiated peace agreement.
The US president made the bizarre claim as he defended his administration’s attempts to end the Iran war.
Donald Trump announced on Saturday that a peace deal could be signed as early as today.
Vance said: “This is how wars ultimately get settled. If you go back to World War 2, if you go back to World War 1, if you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all end with some kind of negotiation.”
But a community note on X pointed out that World War 2 ended “with unconditional surrenders by Germany on May 8, 1945, and Japan on September 2, 1945, rather than negotiation.”
JD Vance:
If you go back to WW2 or every major conflict in human history, they all ended with some kind of negotiation. pic.twitter.com/B7h4uqlk0r
Social media users were just as unforgiving about the vice-president’s historical gaffe.
Hitler negotiated with a gun he fired into his own mouth. Mussolini negotiated with a submachine gun on the side of a road. The Japanese negotiated with not one, but two, nuclear bombs. JD Vance is an Ivy League graduate? Holy fucking hell, MAGA really does melt brains.
— someone somewhere (@veritasdallas) June 13, 2026Nonsense
Unconditional surrender ended WW2 pic.twitter.com/BKlQgemtsu
Ah yes that famous “negotiation” where Japan unconditionally surrendered after two atom bombs and Hitler blew his brains out. https://t.co/tUJSg7UEOJ
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