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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Trump on Iran War: Conflict Is 'Small Potatoes'
President Trump on Friday said the conflict in Iran is "small potatoes" as he defended Vice President JD Vance for asserting that months of on-and-off attacks in the Middle East are not a "war." Asked during an Oval Office exchange about Vance's comments made a day earlier, Trump said US...
Trump calls the Iran war — which has left 18 U.S. service members dead — 'small potatoes' and backs Vance's view that it's not a war
President Donald Trump on Friday said the conflict in Iran is “small potatoes” as he defended Vice President JD Vance for asserting that months of on-and-off attacks in the Middle East are not a “war.” Asked during an Oval Office exchange about Vance’s comments made a day earlier, Trump said U.S. strikes on Iran are now “intermittent” and “a lot of people don’t call it a war.” The conflict has cost U.S. taxpayers more than $37.5 billion and left…
Trump Calls the Iran War ‘Small Potatoes.’ The Polling Says He Is Right
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.
'Small Potatoes.': Trump Dismisses 18 American Deaths In Iran War
Donald Trump seems rather annoyed that people are questioning his needless, unpopular, and costly war against Iran. On Friday, he downplayed the seemingly endless war and its costs as “small potatoes for us” and “not a big thing.” “We did Venezuela, and we did this in Venezuela,” Trump continued. “We lost nobody, and this we lost 18 people. And in Vietnam, you lost 100,000 people, and in other conflicts, you lost tens of thousands of people.” It…
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