Trump calls Iran conflict ‘small potatoes’ and says he agrees with Vance that it’s not a ‘war’
Trump said the United States has taken no active shooting losses and argued the Iran fight has delivered “tremendous success,” despite 18 service members dead.
- President Donald Trump downplayed ongoing military operations against Iran during an Oval Office exchange, describing the six-month campaign as "small potatoes" and declaring "it's not a big thing".
- Trump expressed support for Vice President JD Vance's statements from a day earlier, agreeing that the campaign should be characterized as intermittent "military conflict" rather than an active "war".
- Vance argued that major combat operations ended weeks ago and that there is currently "no active shooting," despite recent retaliatory strikes and continued military engagements across the region.
- To frame the scale of the operation, Trump contrasted the 18 American fatalities in the Iran campaign with the tens of thousands lost during the Vietnam War, while asserting the primary goal of stopping Iran's nuclear program was achieved.
- The attempt to rebrand the campaign follows leaked internal Pentagon directives instructing military personnel to cease using the conflict's official designation, "Operation Epic Fury," amid criticism over the 90-day War Powers Act limit.
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Wars rarely win elections. George H.W. Bush ended the Cold War, won the most decisive American military victory in modern history, and lost in 1992 anyway. But wars rarely lose elections either - it takes a genuine catastrophe, of the kind Korea handed Truman and Vietnam handed Johnson, to make voters turn on a president over a foreign conflict. Nothing in the current numbers looks like that. Republican enthusiasm for the midterms is up 15 point…
Trump Calls Iran Conflict 'Small Potatoes' Despite Deaths of18 US Troops, Then Threatens Another Strike
President Trump downplays the US-Iran conflict, calling it 'small potatoes' despite 18 American deaths and rising costs. Public disapproval grows as peace talks remain stalled.
The U.S. has attacked prop of 60 military objects this setmana among Trump defense that the combats are "intermitents"
US President Donald Trump said on Friday that war with Iran is a "small thing" for the United States.
With the US failing to make any gains in its conflict with Iran, President Donald Trump is trying to downplay the war with the Islamic Republic.
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