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Donald Trump was on Wednesday slammed and accused of “putting words in the mouths of dead soldiers” who were killed in his Iran war.
Trump, ahead of the dignified transfer of four soldiers at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, told reporters:
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“They are indeed great heroes, actually. They said, and they, all of them said very strongly, ’We can’t let, cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon.”
“They [Iran] won’t have a nuclear weapon, so we’re going to honor them,” he added.
Watch the clip here:
Critics condemned Trump’s claim that the fallen troops totally backed his controversial conflict as “disgusting,” “shameful” and “obscene.”
Trump was ripped as “beyond repulsive” and “a very sick individual” and accused of trying to make political gain with the remarks, amid awful polling for him on the conflict that he launched in February.
At least 18 U.S. service members have died in the war.
It's one thing to honor the sacrifice of fallen service members. And it's common rhetoric to declare that they died for a worthy cause. It's the Platonic ideal of malignant narcissism to just stand there shamelessly and put words into their dead mouths.
— David Simon (@audacityofdespair.bsky.social)2026-07-22T15:10:55.758Z
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He actually outdid himself today. This is obscene.
— Brandon Friedman (@brandonfriedman.bsky.social)2026-07-22T14:58:55.423Z
well this is easily the most detestable thing a president has ever said about us troops he had killed
— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew.bsky.social)2026-07-22T14:45:40.474Z
Using dead soldiers as sock puppets:
— Sanho Tree (@sanho.bsky.social)2026-07-22T15:20:20.784Z
