Responding to reports that U.S. Vice President JD Vance was set to visit Israel in the upcoming days and cancelled his trip over objections to Israel's expansion of the war in Gaza, Vance said that while he and the Trump administration officials "thought about going to Israel," as well as "a couple of other countries that the President would like me to visit here [the Middle East] in the next few months," it would have been too hard in terms of logistics.