Trump downplays confrontation with Iran as “a minor conflict”

Donald Trump has sought to shrink the political weight of the confrontation with Iran, calling it “a minor conflict” and saying it is “not a big deal.” Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, the U.S. president backed Vice President JD Vance’s refusal to describe the confrontation as a war.

Trump said the clashes had occurred intermittently. He compared the situation with Iran, which the article says began six months ago, with wars such as Vietnam that lasted for many years.

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Many people do not call it a war. I call it a military conflict because, for us, it is something minor. It is not a big deal.

“Mucha gente no lo llama una guerra. Yo lo llamo un conflicto militar porque, para nosotros, es algo menor. No es gran cosa,” Trump said. In English, he described it as a military conflict that was minor for the United States.

Trump also defended Vance’s statement the previous day that he would not call it a war because there was no exchange of fire at that moment. “Ahora mismo no estamos luchando, no hay combates,” Trump said, even though the United States and Iran had exchanged attacks in the Persian Gulf in recent days.

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Right now we are not fighting, there is no combat.