Trump downplays Iran conflict as a ‘little skirmish’ despite unpopular war.
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump on Tuesday sought to minimize the war with Iran, calling it “a little skirmish.”
“We’re in a little skirmish military. I call it a skirmish, because Iran has no chance. They never did. They know it,” Trump said during an Oval Office event on physical fitness among American kids.
Trump often touts the conflict as a resounding success, insisting for example that Iran’s navy has been destroyed.
He sometimes openly calls it a war but more often tries to minimize it because the war is unpopular at home.
On Monday he called it a “mini-war.”
And last month he described US military operations against Iran as “a little excursion.”
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