Trump held a Friday Oval Office event to try to suck up to ranchers who are angry at him for importing foreign beef, but things went off the rails when he took questions from reporters, and the topic turned to the Iran war.

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Trump said as he tried to minimize the Iran war by claiming that the American loss of life was small potatoes and he responded to JD Vance’s comments about the war:

100,000 people and in other conflicts you lost tens of thousands of people. Uh, I would say that it’s intermittent. You know, we do intermittent strikes. So I had … I heard what he said, and it was interesting ’cause I think that there’s a lot of truth, that we’re not fighting right now. There’s no fighting. We’re taking out a lot of oil. We control the Hormuz Strait. Uh, we control it very strongly. Uh, we did a hit on certain areas around the Hormuz Strait.

We took out their radar as you know. You know that very well. We took out some aircraft. We took out some other things that protect… for them, used to protect the Hormuz Strait when they had it under very tight control. But now we control it, and we’re taking out… Last night we took a lot of boats, a lot of ships came through, uh, and they come through every day. So I can understand what he’s saying. It’s a military conflict, but it’s, it’s very intermittent. I could see somebody not calling it a war.

A reporter asked Trump about his claim that the Iran war is small potatoes, and he blew up.