U.S. President Donald Trump walks in the rose garden as he returns to the White House Sunday -Credit:Getty Images
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U.S. President Donald Trump awkwardly evaded reporters’ questions about Iran and redirected their attention to his White House renovations.
On at least two separate occasions on Sunday, two days after he launched a joint attack on Iran with Israel that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the president refused to engage with reporters who were pressing him to explain his reasoning for the attack and his intentions moving forward after ominously declaring that U.S. troops would “likely” die in combat. At least three U.S. soldiers have already been killed in Kuwait, marking the first American deaths in the war with Iran. Nine have also been killed in Israel and four have been killed across the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman, in strikes after several dozen were killed in Iran, including more than 115 people from one strike near an elementary school alone.
The president first avoided speaking to reporters after arriving at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland around 3:30 p.m. Sunday. Then, later in the evening, he ignored reporters who were hounding him outside the White House grounds about Iran and instead redirected their attention to the new statue he had erected in the White House Rose Garden.
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According to PBS White House Correspondent Liz Landers, the real estate mogul made a remark about the new statues he installed in the White House Rose Garden, describing them as “unbelievable,” while being pressed on Iran.
Footage shared on CNN shows reporters shouting at the president from a distance, demanding that he explain his objectives in Iran. In response, Trump made a hand gesture and walked away.
Trump already came under fire for paving over the Rose Garden to create a patio for media events last summer. He is facing similar criticism for his $400-plus million ballroom extension to the White House East Wing, which was partially torn down for its creation.
Several outraged internet users took to X to express frustration with Trump’s remark about the statue while evading questions on Iran, which have already impacted global oil prices and stock markets.
“His brain is melting before our eyes,” one user wrote on X.
Another angry X user wrote, “Only Trump could make bombing Iran and deaths of Americans all about him.”
Trump installed a statue of Thomas Jefferson in the Rose Garden -Credit:AFP via Getty Images
“Three Americans died today, hundreds of others have died on all sides and this motherf—er is talking about a statue,” a third X user said.
A fourth X user opined about the real estate mogul, “Clearly he is distracted by his side projects, they are more important to him.”
Trump told The New York Times that he ordered U.S. troops to continue attacking Iran for “four to five weeks” without providing details of his plan.
It comes after the president declared Saturday on Truth Social after announcing Khamenei’s death that Iran was “very much destroyed and, even, obliterated” and that “heavy and pinpoint bombing” would continue “uninterrupted throughout the week or, as long as necessary to achieve our objective of PEACE THROUGHOUT THE MIDDLE EAST AND, INDEED, THE WORLD!”.
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