Always looking to drive a wedge between President Donald Trump and his closest allies, the media has focused sharply on a purported difference of opinion on Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions between Trump and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.

Now, amid media reports that Gabbard has been "sidelined" by Trump on the Israel-Iran conflict, former senior Trump advisor Jason Miller insisted that Trump and Gabbard are "on the exact same page" regarding Iran, according to Newsmax.

And even if they aren't of one mind on how to handle Iran's quest for nuclear weapons, the media reports that highlighted the supposed rift were sure to note that the alleged disparity seemed unlikely to result in Gabbard resigning or being ousted from the administration.

Gabbard's assessment of Iran

NBC News, citing multiple unnamed sources, reported on Wednesday that DNI Gabbard had been "sidelined" by President Trump from internal discussions on the Israel-Iran conflict and whether or not the U.S. should get involved militarily in helping Israel to ensure that Iran doesn't develop nuclear weapons.

Part of the problem stems from Gabbard's testimony to Congress in March about the U.S. Intelligence Community's Annual Threat Assessment, in which she stated, "The IC continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and Supreme Leader Khomeini has not authorized the nuclear weapons program that he suspended in 2003."

"We continue to monitor closely if Tehran decides to reauthorize its nuclear weapons program," she added. "In the past year, we've seen an erosion of a decades-long taboo in Iran on discussing nuclear weapons in public, likely emboldening nuclear weapons advocates within Iran's decision-making apparatus. Iran's enriched uranium stockpile is at its highest levels and is unprecedented for a state without nuclear weapons."

Earlier this week, when asked about Gabbard's assessment and how it might conflict with Trump's insistence that Iran was "very close" to acquiring nuclear weapons, the president told reporters, "I don’t care what she said. I think they were very close to having one."

However, after the media pounced on that remark from Trump, Gabbard told a CNN reporter that she and Trump were "on the same page" about Iran, and said, "Pres Trump was saying the same thing that I said in my annual threat assessment back in March. Unfortunately, too many people in the media don't care to actually read what I said."

Gabbard's video about nuclear weapons

Adding to that problem more recently was a video Gabbard posted on social media following a visit to Hiroshima, Japan, in which she denounced the horrors of nuclear weapons and the grim aftermath inherent in their use -- a video that purportedly did not go over well with other officials in the Trump administration, per NBC News.

In that video -- which some have interpreted as being about Russia while others believe it was about Iran -- Gabbard warned that the "political elite and warmongers" were "carelessly fomenting fear and tensions between nuclear powers."

Yet, in pushback on Thursday to media reports like the one from NBC, former senior Trump advisor Jason Miller told Newsmax that "both Tulsi and the president are on the exact same page" concerning Iran's ambitions to obtain nuclear weapons, in that "They're both saying that Iran is moving at breakneck pace to try to develop or try to enrich uranium needed for nuclear weapons."

Miller acknowledged that Gabbard "had some comments with regard to where in that process they might be then on the delivery mechanism of that. But also, I think she's very much reflecting the president's position that we do not want to get pulled into a third Gulf War."

He further cautioned that "far too many people" in Washington, D.C. "want to have boots on the ground. They want to have regime change. They want to have the third Gulf War. They want nothing more than the U.S. to be embroiled in this. And I think Tulsi is really speaking to the fact that that is not what President Trump is about."

"President Trump is about making sure Iran does not have a nuclear weapon," Miller added. "So I think in Washington, too often there's this kind of false binary construct where it's either ... go all interventionist and have boots on the ground and all these things, or you do nothing. That's not the case. What President Trump wants to do is stop them from getting the nuclear weapon."