Donald Trump on Friday downplayed the toll on American sailors enduring nearly nine months at sea on the USS Abraham Lincoln as concerns escalated about mental health and supply issues aboard the aircraft carrier supporting U.S. operations against Iran.

In a brief exchange with reporters before flying to New York for an event to highlight falling violent crime rates across the U.S., Trump refuted that family members have raised concerns about the deployment’s length and even said that the deployment — which includes a record-setting uninterrupted time at sea of more than 240 days — is “not nearly long enough.”

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    I deliberately phrased it such that you could not do that and you still did it. Do you know what “willing” means? Defensive wars are not willing on the defenders part…

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      13 hours ago

      Willing to fight to defend yourself is still willing to fight.
      I think you are confusing the words willing and voluntarily.

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        The sheer amount of dick-twisting you’re performing to avoid just saying “okay sorry you’re right I misunderstood / didn’t read”

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          Are you really claiming I didn’t read 1 short line of text?
          People unwilling to go to war normally means totally unwilling, as in pacifists.
          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacifism

          Now please stop being an idiot, and admit you made a poorly formulated comment, that doesn’t mean what you thought it means.