Donald Trump defended JD Vance after the Vice President refused to call the Iran fighting a war. The remarks highlighted the White House effort to portray a costly six-month conflict as limited.

Trump again compared the death toll of 18 US service members to the wars in Vietnam and Afghanistan. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Trump noted that U.S. strikes on Iran are now “intermittent” and seemed to downplay the intensity of a war that's cost U.S. taxpayers more than $37.5 billion and left 18 U.S. service members dead.

Trump downplays the Iran conflict as "small potatoes," supporting Vance's claim it's not a war amid ongoing U.S. strikes.

Trump downplays the Iran conflict as "small potatoes," supporting Vance's claim it's not a war amid ongoing U.S. strikes.

Trump defended JD Vance's refusal to call the Iran fighting a war during an Oval Office exchange. His remarks further downplayed a six-month conflict that has cost billions and killed 18 US service members.

President Donald Trump describes the conflict in Iran as "small potatoes" and says he agrees that what's going on in Iran is no longer a “war.”

President Donald Trump said Friday that the Iran war was "small potatoes" for the United States, a day after Vice President JD Vance said he wouldn't describe the conflict as a war.