President Donald Trump, speaking about newly launched US and Israeli strikes on Iran, warned that American troops ‘may be lost’ in the fighting and that casualties were possible.
The blowback quickly turned personal, with critics on X urging the president’s youngest son to enlist, arguing that political families should not be insulated from the risks they ask others to shoulder.
The news came after Trump said that the United States and Israel had begun strikes against Iran, with Iran responding with counterstrikes aimed at Israeli and US interests across the Middle East, according to reports. Blasts were reported in several countries including the UAE, Bahrain and Qatar, as the region braced for the kind of escalation that rarely stays neatly contained.
In a video posted on Truth Social, Trump framed the operation in sweeping historical terms, stating that for 47 years the Iranian regime had chanted ‘Death to America’ and waged an unending campaign of bloodshed. He also warned Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard to lay down their arms or face certain death, language that, even by modern standards of presidential rhetoric, leaves little room for a graceful off‑ramp.
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