Trump says Iran conflict, which has killed 18 US service members and injured hundreds more, is ‘small potatoes’

President Donald Trump on Friday labeled the Iran war “small potatoes,” the latest attempt to minimize a six-month conflict that caused a spike in gas prices and led to the deaths of 18 American service-members. “A lot of people don’t call it a war. I call it a military conflict because it’s small potatoes for us. It’s not a big thing,” he said in the Oval Office. A day earlier, Vice President JD Vance said the conflict shouldn’t be termed a “war” since major combat operations ended months ago. Trump similarly cast the conflict as periodic and low-grade, despite routine rounds of back-and-forth strikes. “I would say that it’s intermittent. You know, we do intermittent strikes,” Trump said, adding: “There’s a lot of truth that we’re not fighting right now.