President Donald Trump exits Air Force One at Morristown Airport in Morristown, N.J., June 5, 2026.(Nathan Howard/Reuters)
It was not long after the Pentagon revealed that a U.S. Apache attack helicopter that crashed near the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday was, in fact, shot down by hostile Iranian fire that the president told the Wall Street Journal that it “wasn’t a big deal.”
You could have fooled me. The Pentagon certainly acted as if it were a significant event. U.S. forces touted the successful first-of-its-kind rescue of the two downed airmen by an unmanned drone boat, stripping the Iranians of the opportunity to hold American service personnel hostage. What’s more, the scale of the American response to the ...
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Americans’ faith in Trump will decline if he cannot bring the Iran conflict to a sensible conclusion, while the loyalty of congressional Republicans is being tested.
