President Donald J. Trump said on Thursday that he had asked Vice President JD Vance to focus on what the president called “Massive Corruption and Crime” in Democrat-run cities and states, and he declared that the United States no longer needs 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 president wrote on Truth Social shortly after 8 a.m. Eastern time. He named Minnesota, California and Illinois among the states he described as “poorly run, corrupt disasters,” and wrote: “Our Budget could be quickly BALANCED with the correction of this large scale criminal activity.”

In the same post, the president addressed Iran. “We don’t need a deal with Iran. Those days have long since passed,” he wrote. “We’ve got their money, Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, and we’ve got their Strait!” CNBC reported that the reference was to the Strait of Hormuz.

About 15 minutes later, the president wrote in a separate post: “If the Democrats want to ‘root out corruption,’ they should start with investigating Blue States, perhaps the most CORRUPT governmental structures and entities anywhere on Earth.”