US President Donald Trump is pulling JD Vance out of his role in Iran negotiations, he announced Thursday, a move that comes after the vice president blamed last week’s crushing Republican Party midterm election losses on the protracted war, Politico reports.

Vance will instead focus his attention on combating purported corruption and crime in Democratic Party-run US cities and states, the president directed in a Truth Social Post, adding that the US doesn’t “need a deal with Iran.”

“I have asked Vice President Vance to focus his complete and total attention on the Massive Corruption and Crime taking place in Democrat run Cities and States throughout the U.S.,” the US president later added. “The Blue [i.e. the Democratic Party-run] States, such as Minnesota, California, Illinois, and many more, are all poorly run, corrupt disasters. Billions of Dollars is being stolen each and every month.”

But Trump wrote in his Truth Social post that he is no longer seeking a diplomatic solution to the Iran conflict.

“We don’t need a deal with Iran,” he wrote. “Those days have long since passed. We’ve got their money, Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, and we’ve got their Strait [of Hormuz]!”