Trump says war with Iran is ‘a piece of cake’ for the United States

Donald Trump says the war with Iran is “a piece of cake” for the United States, brushing aside questions about whether the conflict should be called a war.

Speaking to reporters on Friday, the president said many people did not use the word war and that he preferred “military conflict” because the fighting was minor from the American perspective. “It’s not something big. First we dealt with Venezuela and now this,” he said, responding to comments by Vice President JD Vance, who had declined to describe the confrontation as a war.

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Many people don't call it a war. I call it a military conflict because for us it is minor. It's not something big. First we dealt with Venezuela and now this.

Trump said the terminology mattered less than what he called the results of the campaign. “What matters is that we have been very successful. We have prevented Iran from obtaining the nuclear weapon,” he said.

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I don't think the way we call it is important. What matters is that we have been very successful. We have prevented Iran from obtaining the nuclear weapon.

He added that the United States was carrying out “pinpoint strikes” to eliminate any possibility that Iran could rearm and again become a threat in the region. The clashes resumed on Sunday after a month of calm, when the U.S. military said it wanted to stop rockets carrying naval mines from being fired into the strategic Strait of Hormuz. Tehran responded by attacking Gulf neighbors, as it had since the conflict began with a U.S.-Israeli offensive in late February.

The war has also created a domestic political risk for Trump’s Republicans. Higher fuel prices linked to the conflict threaten to cost the party its congressional majority in the November midterm elections, the article said.

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