President Trump got hit with a put punch.

It couldn’t have come at a worse time.

And Donald Trump’s heart broke into pieces when he read this shocking letter.

Joe Kent resigned as the director of the National Counterterrorism Center over his opposition to the war in Iran.

Kent became the highest-profile official in American history to resign over opposing a war.

In his resignation letter, Kent claimed Iran posed no “imminent threat to America” and that Israel and its “powerful American lobby” deceived America into war with misinformation and false intelligence.

“After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today. I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby,” Kent wrote.

Kent claimed the war went against the America First foreign policy that Trump campaigned on.

“Until June of 2025, you understood that the wars in the Middle East were a trap that robbed America of the precious lives of our patriots and depleted the wealth and prosperity of our nation,” Kent added.

Kent is a U.S. Army veteran who deployed 11 and is a Gold Star husband whose wife was killed while serving in the war in Syria.

In his letter, Kent stated that he “cannot support sending the next generation off to fight and die in a war that serves no benefit to the American people nor justifies the cost of American lives,”

Reporters asked President Trump about Kent’s resignation during an Oval Office event.

Trump said he liked Kent personally, but that he was “weak on security.

“I read his statement. I always thought he was a nice guy, but I always thought he was weak on security, very weak on security. I didn’t know him well,” Trump told reporters.

Trump went on to say that it was good that Kent was out because Trump didn’t want anyone who thought Iran wasn’t a threat holding a key national security position in his administration.

“But when I read his statement, I realized that it’s a good thing that he’s out because he said that Iran was not a threat. Iran was a threat. Every country realized what a threat Iran was. The question is whether or not they wanted to do something about it,” Trump continued.

“And many people, many of the greatest military scholars, have been saying for years that a president should have taken out Iran because they wanted a nuclear weapon,” Trump concluded.

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