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Trump’s Response To Whether Americans Could Die From Iran War Leaves People Stunned

Trump on Thursday spoke casually about potential retaliation from Iran.

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The U.S. military campaign against Iran began nearly one week ago. And in an interview published Thursday, the president sounded rather callous about the possibility of Iran retaliating.

After telling the story of how Trump came to decide to attack Iran at that particular moment, Time magazine asked the president if Americans should be worried about retaliatory attacks at home.

“I guess,” the president told Time “But I think they’re worried about that all the time. We think about it all the time. We plan for it. But yeah, you know, we expect some things. Like I said, some people will die. When you go to war, some people will die.”

Time also looked at how different the Iran campaign is from Trump’s posture in the past, especially during the last presidential campaign.

“Trump promised to end wars, not start them,” the Time article said. “Instead, he has deployed military force in increasingly dizzying ways. No other modern American leader has directed assaults in as many countries in such a short span of time. Since returning to office, Trump has authorized attacks in eight nations, three of which have never before been directly targeted by U.S. forces. In 2025 alone, he approved more individual airstrikes than his predecessor did over four years.”

What were those attacks?

“Trump has ordered a major campaign of airstrikes targeting Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen; authorized naval attacks on vessels from Venezuela suspected of drug trafficking; and signed off on the operation that seized that country’s authoritarian President, Nicolás Maduro, left more than a hundred dead, and placed the Venezuelan leader on trial in New York,” Time said. “Just days after the onslaught against Tehran, the U.S. took part in joint military operations in Ecuador, targeting “designated terrorist organizations.” His Administration has also fixed its sights on Cuba, where President Miguel Díaz-Canel has ramped up military exercises amid reports that Trump has asked advisers to devise plans to end the island’s six-decade communist rule.”

There were some pretty shocked responses, including from one U.S. Senator:

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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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