Trump calls war on Iran a ‘little diversion’
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“Donald Trump has described the war on Iran which has killed more than 2,000 people as a ‘little diversion’”
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Two independent news sources (Vanguard News and TRT World) explicitly report that President Donald Trump described the war with Iran as a 'little diversion'.
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— On April 12, 2025, Iran and the United States began a series of negotiations aimed at reaching a nuclear peace agreement, following a letter from US president Donald Trump to Iranian supreme leader Al…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025–2026_Iran–United_States_n…
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— Donald Trump has been the target of numerous assassination attempts and death threats during his presidential campaigning and his presidencies of the United States of America.
The earliest known attem…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_incidents_involving_D…
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— "Trump Always Chickens Out" (TACO) is a pejorative description of the perceived tendency of United States president Donald Trump to make threats, only to later delay or renege on them as a way to incr…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Always_Chickens_Out
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Always_Chickens_Out
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“Speaking in Las Vegas, he said it was ‘going swimmingly’ and ‘should be ending pretty soon’”
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Multiple web search results confirm that Trump spoke at a Las Vegas event/roundtable where he stated the war was 'going along swimmingly' and 'should be ending pretty soon'.
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— On January 1, 2025, at approximately 8:39 a.m. (PST), an improvised explosive device exploded in a Tesla Cybertruck parked outside the main entrance of the Trump International Hotel Las Vegas in Parad…
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— This is a list of presidential trips made by Donald Trump during 2026, the second year of his second presidency as the 47th president of the United States.
This list excludes trips made within Washing…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidential_trips_mad…
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— Donald Trump has been the target of numerous assassination attempts and death threats during his presidential campaigning and his presidencies of the United States of America.
The earliest known attem…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_incidents_involving_D…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_incidents_involving_D…
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“the war on Iran which has killed more than 2,000 people”
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Five independent news sources (RT News, NBC Washington, The Guardian, The Hindu, and CNBC) all report that the war has killed at least 3,000 people in Iran alone, which directly supports the claim that more than 2,000 people have been killed.
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— Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, historically known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea t…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran
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— On April 12, 2025, Iran and the United States began a series of negotiations aimed at reaching a nuclear peace agreement, following a letter from US president Donald Trump to Iranian supreme leader Al…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025–2026_Iran–United_States_n…
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— Since 28 February 2026, the United States and Israel have been engaged in a war with Iran and its regional allies. The conflict began when the US and Israel launched airstrikes on Iran, targeting mili…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_war
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_war
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