🔶 Trump defends the prolonged mission of the Lincoln carrier: “Not long enough”

Trump, while concerns were growing about the mental health of American sailors and supply issues aboard the aircraft carrier “USS Abraham Lincoln,” which supports operations against Iran, played down the pressure on these sailors who have been at sea for nearly 9 months.

Donald Trump, the President of the United States, on Friday, August 14 (23 Mordad), before flying to New York to take part in a ceremony aimed at highlighting reductions in violent crime across the United States, in a brief conversation with reporters, rejected the concerns expressed by sailors’ family members about the lengthening of the mission, and even said that the mission—which has set a record with more than 240 days of uninterrupted presence at sea—is “not long enough.”

In response to a question about the mission dragging on, Trump said: “This carrier is moving right now, or will be moving soon, and another very similar carrier will replace it.” Hong Cao, acting head of the U.S. Navy Department, also announced on social media on Friday that the Lincoln “will return home soon.”

At the start of his second term as president, Trump had promised that he would avoid getting bogged down in prolonged and costly military conflicts. Trump and his advisors, after the start of the United States and Israel’s war against Iran, also said that this conflict would not last more than a few weeks. Now, more than five months have passed since the start of this war.