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Trump Just Compared War Casualties Like A Scoreboard — And People Are Furious

The president, days after U.S. service members were killed, seemed to brag about how few soldiers had been lost.

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A frequent critique of Donald Trump’s Iran adventure is that while he spent every one of his presidential campaigns promising that he would avoid open-ended wars in the Middle East, and that his opponents would send Americans to die in such conflicts, here he is just such a war.

Perhaps sensitive to that critique, Trump made a post to Truth Social on Tuesday, in which he compared the casualty figures and lengths of previous foreign wars to his own interventions this year in Venezuela and Iran:

It’s one thing for Trump, who likes to brag about ending foreign wars while using a very liberal definition of the word “war” to not refer to the current intervention as a war.

But for the president of the United States, just days after Americans were killed serving in that conflict, to brag that so few Americans had been killed is shockingly callous, even by Trump’s impossibly low standards.

Trump said this week that the two service members killed this week had died “in service of our country” and in “never allowing Iran to have a nuclear weapon.”

A lot of people on social media were outraged that Trump could be so cruel:

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Stephen Silver is an award-winning journalist, essayist and film critic, and contributor to the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Broad Street Review and Splice Today. The co-founder of the Philadelphia Film Critics Circle, Stephen lives in suburban Philadelphia with his wife and two sons. Stephen has authored thousands of articles that focus on politics, technology, and the economy.

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