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Small Potatoes
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Friday said the conflict in Iran is “small potatoes” as he defended Vice President JD Vance for asserting that months of on-and-off attacks in the Middle East are not a “war.”
Asked during an Oval Office exchange about Vance’s comments made a day earlier, 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.
“I can understand what he’s saying,” said Trump. He added, “I call it a military conflict because it’s small potatoes for us. It’s not a big thing.”
Asked during an Oval Office exchange about Vance’s comments made a day earlier, 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.
“I can understand what he’s saying,” said Trump. He added, “I call it a military conflict because it’s small potatoes for us. It’s not a big thing.”
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This is propaganda because
This image features potatoes instead of the portraits of the U.S. solidiers who were killed in Iran. It's a commentary about the way that U.S. servicemembers are described by the American president. It is suggestive of the lack of moral and ethical sensibilities of this president that he would verbally dehumanize them with the term that means "unimportant" or even "trivial." These 18 people are not trivial to their parents, families, and loved ones. This kind of propaganda puts a moral frame around the conflict wit a clever but troubling image.
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