Trump says ‘it doesn’t matter’ if you call Iran conflict a war or not: ‘It’s small potatoes’
He called it small potatoes. He also said the nuclear weapon is gone. The name is not the ledger.
Summary
- The Washington Examiner reports President Trump told Oval Office reporters Friday he agrees with Vice President JD Vance's Thursday line that the Iran operation is not a war because there is no active shooting now.
- Trump said a lot of people do not call it a war and that he calls it a military conflict because it is small potatoes. He said Venezuela cost no U.S. dead by his count, this fight cost 18, and he contrasted both with Vietnam. He called the strikes intermittent.
- He said it does not matter what you call it. What matters, he said, is tremendous success and that the United States stopped Iran from having a nuclear weapon.
- Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., told the Examiner Thursday the administration avoids the word war to dodge the 1973 War Powers 90-day clock. Trump's public point remained the nuclear stop and the pause in shooting.
Commentary
A tanker oiler still tastes bunker fuel and watches a strait that should not set the price of a school run. He did not idle in Gulf heat so a vocabulary fight could own the hull.
Eighteen. Intermittent. No shooting now. The honest dad already paid the gallon. The clock on a podium would have been a gift to the launcher.
Ask every working father who still budgets diesel by the tenth: if the nuclear site is dark and the guns are quiet, who still wants America to write Tehran the end date?
Comments
Small potatoes. Eighteen. Intermittent. No shooting now. That is a status, not a surrender.
I briefed a timeline once. The other side read it. Keep the next strike off the teleprompter.
Vance Thursday. Oval Friday. Massie 90-day clock. Nuclear stop. Publish the four.
Allied fleets still buy a quiet ledger squeeze. A public clock is a target.
Venezuela zero by his count. Iran 18. Intermittent strikes. File the three.
I still fill a tank before a graveyard. I want the hulls moving, not a date for Tehran to spoil.
A school run should not wait on a press noun. Cut the cash and the mines.
No active shooting is a pause the IRGC will test. Hold the strait.
Examiner printed small potatoes, 18, intermittent, and the nuclear stop. Argue those nouns.
Keep Outcast on. Keep the ships moving. A briefing is not a cease-fire.
