President Trump Shares Screenshot Exposing Joe Kent Following Sudden Resignation

President Trump always keeps the receipts.

As the WLT Report covered on Tuesday, the Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Joe Kent, suddenly resigned.

In Kent’s resignation letter, he claimed he could no longer consciously support the war in Iran.

He later claimed it in his letter that Israel and its powerful lobbyists are the ones who persuaded President Trump into the war.

In his first response after learning that Kent had resigned, President Trump called Kent “weak.”

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Trump later in the evening shared a screenshot from a post Kent made back in 2020 in which he supported attacks on Iran.

Take a look:

BREAKING: President Trump highlights Joe Kent’s post from 2020 where Kent said "We shouldn’t sit and wait for the next attack, wipe Iran’s ballistic capability out." https://t.co/GLyhi8BfBT pic.twitter.com/hbv6pExjFa

— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) March 18, 2026

USA Today reported more on Kent Resignation and Trump’s response:

The top US counterterrorism official resigned on Tuesday in protest over the Iran war, writing that “Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation” in his resignation letter to President Donald Trump.

Joe Kent, a conservative politician and former CIA paramilitary officer, quit as head of the National Counterterrorism Center, alleging the United States went to war “due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby” and that Trump had been duped by a “misinformation campaign.”

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Trump later told reporters “it’s a good thing that he’s out because he said Iran was not a threat. Every country recognized Iran was a threat.” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt wrote on social media that Kent’s resignation letter was riddled with “false claims.”

Kent, who was a top aide to national intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard, is the first U.S. official to resign over the war, now in its 18th day.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard who Kent served under, also released a statement:

Donald Trump was overwhelmingly elected by the American people to be our President and Commander in Chief. As our Commander in Chief, he is responsible for determining what is and is not an imminent threat, and whether or not to take action he deems necessary to protect the…

— DNI Tulsi Gabbard (@DNIGabbard) March 17, 2026

Full Text:

Donald Trump was overwhelmingly elected by the American people to be our President and Commander in Chief. As our Commander in Chief, he is responsible for determining what is and is not an imminent threat, and whether or not to take action he deems necessary to protect the safety and security of our troops, the American people and our country.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence is responsible for helping coordinate and integrate all intelligence to provide the President and Commander in Chief with the best information available to inform his decisions.

After carefully reviewing all the information before him, President Trump concluded that the terrorist Islamist regime in Iran posed an imminent threat and he took action based on that conclusion.

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So what’s next for Joe Kent?

Apparently, he’s about to go on the podcast circuit.

🚨Just in: Tucker Carlson is expected to interview Joe Kent as soon as this week after his resignation from the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center over the Iran War

Via: Axios pic.twitter.com/6aEd3ERFh8

— The Calvin Coolidge Project (@TheCalvinCooli1) March 17, 2026