Analysis: Trumpâs most tone-deaf comments on Iran and the economy, ranked | CNN Politics
On Tuesday morning, President Donald Trump responded to Iran downing a US Army Apache helicopter during a ceasefire by telling the Wall Street Journal that it âwasnât a big deal.â About 24 hours later, he responded to inflation surging above 4% for the first time in three years by saying, âI love the inflation.â The one-two punch of flippant comments epitomizes Trumpâs increasingly tone-deaf approach to addressing Americansâ concerns about the Iran war and the economy. Repeatedly in recent months, Trump has responded to Americansâ growing concerns not with empathy, but by pretending their pain didnât exist â or that it was actually good. And heâs now assembled a remarkable list of ham-fisted comments. Below are some of the most prominent examples, ranked by how insensitive they were and how politically troubling they could be for Trumpâs party ahead of Novemberâs midterms. Trump has often struggled to speak tactfully about the sacrifices of American troops, and thatâs surely the case now that heâs personally sent them to war. After the first three deaths in the Iran war were reported, Trump immediately seemed to insert the deaths into a cost-benefit an
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