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Most members of President Donald Trump’s administration have tried to stay on message: Strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities do not signal the beginning of a war, and the US is not trying to bring about regime change in Iran.

“We’re not at war with Iran,” Vice President JD Vance said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday. “We’re at war with Iran’s nuclear program.”

Ditto with regime change. “This mission was not and has not been about regime change,” Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said at the Pentagon Sunday morning.

But then Trump — who is always master of his own message — put things a bit differently on Sunday night.

“Why wouldn’t there be a Regime change???” he asked on social media, suggesting he would like very much like to see new leadership in Tehran “if the current Iranian Regime is unable to MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN.”

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters Monday at the White House the post was rhetorical.

“The president was just simply raising a question that I think many people around the world are asking,” Leavitt said, adding that if Iran’s regime still refuses

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