Politics
Trump Gets Kick Out of Media Comparing 13 Dead Troops
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MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 5/26/26
What was said
"I get a kick when I look at somebody on television. He's lost 13 people. I lost 13 people."
Five days before Memorial Day, Donald Trump told an audience he gets a kick out of watching media coverage comparing the 13 U.S. service members killed in Iran operations to casualties in other wars. The comment drew immediate criticism for mocking fallen service members. Trump has repeatedly downplayed the 13 deaths by comparing them to hypothetical larger casualties, stating 'somebody else would have lost 100,000 people.'
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- MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 5/26/26
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