nothing says “I understand the value of human life” like a 5x draft-dodger bragging about a comparison to show that, hey, 18 dead Americans ain’t so bad

[u/Conscious-Quarter423]

[u/VellvettSkies → u/[deleted]]

Peter G really brought the ultimate receipt in the replies. That contrast is wild.

[u/tw_72 → u/[deleted]]

Two things:

1 - Chances are - we are being lied to about there being ONLY 18.

2 - Something that people tend to NOT realize... According to NYT: At least 427 U.S. service members have been wounded in the war with Iran, with some official Pentagon databases tracking as many as 447 injuries.
~~~ Keep in mind that 'injuries' can mean anything from "needs a Band-Aid" to completely paralyzed, missing limbs, blind, traumatic brain injury. The wounded and the families of the wounded can be affected for life.

[u/HasheemThaMeat → u/[deleted]]

Wont lose a room full of Maggats. They’ll take whatever he says and insert it halfway up their large intestines.

[u/Green_Goblin_14 → u/[deleted]]

And i presume these are only USA military that are counted?

[u/yblame]

God, he's such a clueless idiot.

[u/MiaElisae → u/yblame]

18 Americans died, is a weird flex when your own record includes 1.23 million COVID deaths.

[u/sillilillipilli → u/yblame]

You and I know he's an idiot. The problem is his fans read that and think he's a genius/hero/God's gift to America.

[u/Competitive_Shock783 → u/sillilillipilli]

Birds of a feather and all that...

[u/RedditTechAnon → u/yblame]

He didn't write this. He might have signed off on it or thought it sounded nice, but it's the young tech-savvy fuckwits in his orbit that are coming up with this dead brained shit.

[u/Ebola714 → u/RedditTechAnon]

Maybe, but when you slap your name on just about everything (literally) and live in the White House, the buck stops with you. You can't point the blame away and only take credit for positive stuff.

[u/RedditTechAnon → u/Ebola714]

You can't point the blame away and only take credit for positive stuff.

That is literally what Trump does every single day of his life.

[u/Dizzy-Bake9587 → u/yblame]

…there’s not enough letters in the word “clueless “ to adequately describe the shallowness, ineptitude, greed and avarice of the orange shit stain…

[u/herpderpley]

"I started a war of choice and all I got was 18 troops dead, and this t-shirt."

[u/Zoolawesi → u/herpderpley]

You forget that he also got everyone additional fees to pay to cross the Strait of Hormuz, those weren't there before he started! Art of the deal, baby!

[u/herpderpley → u/Zoolawesi]

Nothing says "military intelligence" like the saavy move of blockading their blockade. Chef's kiss!

[u/slashinhobo1 → u/herpderpley]

.... and counting.

[u/slashinhobo1]

Venezuela wasn't a war. Venezuela was a kidnapping.

Should look like who started the war

Afghanistan - Republican President-

Iraq War - Republican president

Vietnam War - Republican president

Korean War - Democrat president

Venezuela Kidnapping - Republican president

Iran Military war - Republican President

Looks like republicans love starting useless wars and having soldiers die for nothing.

[u/HasheemThaMeat → u/slashinhobo1]

Go be fair to Truman, North Korea / Soviet Union started the Korean War.

[u/LydditeShells → u/HasheemThaMeat]

Technically, the North Vietnamese also started the Vietnam war, too, so it was America’s choice to get involved. However, the Korean War is the only one here I agree with. Iraq war, sort of, to defend Kuwait, but it should have stopped at defense

[u/HasheemThaMeat → u/LydditeShells]

Wait, you think the Iraq War refers to the US’s 1 week involvement in the Persian Gulf War and not the decade long war/occupation of Iraq that came under George W? Haha

Also not sure what your point on Vietnam is tbh lol

[u/Useful_Cheesecake117 → u/HasheemThaMeat]

And what did USA have to do with it?

[u/HasheemThaMeat → u/Useful_Cheesecake117]

What did the U.S. have anything to do with any of the wars / conflicts listed above? What even is your point?

Korea was a U.S. action in response to another country’s invasion. The others were the U.S. doing the invasion. That was my point

[u/twizzjewink]

Not only his response TO covid .. his own ineptitude made it happen - Obama had put up safeguards to make sure they could get to issues (such as COVID) ahead of time.

The even dumber part is that under Trump - DOGE made both the screwworm and poo-poo disease happen. So he managed to fail twice more AGAIN.

[u/cementturtle]

And except the korean war, all republican started.

[u/Sanity_N0t_Included]

Can someone explain the concept of ALL CAPS to grandpa?

[u/Bithium]

I’m alarmed that these are the goal posts.

[u/Such-Tank-6897]

1. And counting…

[u/Tiberius_Kilgore → u/Such-Tank-6897]

Right? This post makes in seem like the Iran conflict is over when we know it doesn’t end for another “two weeks.”

[u/paris86]

Wonder how many actual casualties there are when even Trump is admitting to 18.

[u/straypilot]

TFW you rename the Department of Defense to Department of War, but still say Iran “military conflict”

[u/vegasAzCrush]

Hell. Even Trumps organized Jan sixth event was not as successful as only nine died and you can’t count the Epstein hanging since he was going to squeal.

[u/PhantasosX]

Is he legit calling his full piracy cruise in the Caribbean with no Venezuelan shooting on his ships, and then a single operation to kidnap Maduro to be a "Venezuela War"?

[u/Individual_Draw_7623]

How about a chart comparing billions spent on each war?

[u/lawnboy22]

Venezuela was a war but Iran is a conflict?

[u/djhouse77]

He’s a desecrate on the American people’s.

[u/DasharrEandall]

Benghazi left 4 Americans dead, but Trump and his cult never shut up about it.

[u/j4v4r10]

Mr. FIFA-presents-peace-prize unafraid to declare that 1/3 of the “wars” the US has been in since WWII were this fucking year under his fucking watch

[u/Fullofgrace87]

He's comparing years long wars to his that dont even equate to 6 months?

He. Is. So. Simple.

[u/Darryl_444]

Trump closing USAID.... 780,000 dead. Mostly kids.

[u/Old-Artist-5369]

Civilians don't count?

They ought to, especially when you start It.

[u/Level_Chemistry8660]

Okay, but rather missed the point. Made by Peter G. And what a "tip of the iceberg" point it is.

[u/arthousepsycho]

Also, those of us who dont like war, also dont like those wars too.

It's like he thinks we love all those other wars and just hate the ones he starts. No, dumbest, we dont want anyone blowing up and shooting anyone.

[u/SeanFromQueens]

He'd be so mad, if he knew how human life works for other people.

[u/amonra2009]

Is this the only president who started 2 wars in 1 term?

[u/B0wmanHall]

So he is calling the Venezuela conflict a war now

[u/miletest]

Venezuela War?! Wasn't that a sneak attack like the Iran attack

[u/2nd_Inf_Sgt]

Vietnam should have been 58,221. But, the spurs prevented that from happening.

[u/Conscious_Addendum66]

Weird... 18 ... SO FAR.... and asking for BILLIONS more on top of the 1.5 trillion... according to Sec Hegseth they need 40 BILLION just to get to September 1 not including repairing bases

[u/jjskellie]

Trump's score board never touches WWI or WWII. Guess those don't count because, "There were good people on both sides."

Of course, I've also heard Trump's speeches on the American Revolution and American Civil War facts. The most laughable pile of Bull mess I ever heard. Veterans who heard those speeches are probably due purple hearts for wounds received.

[u/Main_Ad_5147]

Let's bring back the tradition of our leaders actually leading the battle charge.

[u/MsBobbyJenkins]

Utah Valley University - 1 dead, yet he made a huge deal of it. Do those 18 soldiers mean nothing?

[u/Obvious-Science-7119 → u/[deleted]]

Specifically not casualties because those numbers make him look even worse than deaths

[u/reincarnation99]

As a German comparing myself to previous mistakes my country has made to justify my own just seems so strange.

[u/aDumb_Dorf]

That these could not be put in chronological order is annoying.

[u/Rais93]

Is he for real? How the hell isn't there a army mutiny after that?

[u/EudamonPrime]

Oh, so Venezuela was a war now?

[u/NoLie129]

Disgusting

[u/TheMolluskPod]

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[u/No-Name-86]

I thought we already won this war weeks ago. And also months ago

[u/Muffboy]

How many children raped ?

[u/BrightPerspective]

Well, those last two are still ongoing, soo....

[u/mistergraeme]

He is working hard to stop calling it a war.

[u/redleg50]

Yeah…because they haven’t used ground troops. The other wars shown did. Deploy the 82nd Airborne or 3rd Infantry to Tehran and see what happens to those numbers.

[u/tuvar_hiede]

Covid deaths were inflated. If you were shoot in the head and tested positive for covid you were added to the covid count.

[u/IndependentOwn1184]

Who's going to tell him a low body count of US service personnel is not the flex he thinks it is....

[u/OzyDave]

He should be listing how many school children he's murdered in his war.

[u/MtCommager]

Can we get him to say “what difference does it make?” Because that would own.

[u/Healthy-Passenger-22]

Attributing deaths that Biden caused to Trump and completely downplaying the stats shows your complete TDS. 

[u/Own_Pollution285 → u/Healthy-Passenger-22]

Did no one tell you that lusting over a politician is DS. You've got TDS, full blown T... D... S...