Trump stuns with 'insane' Iran update on Fox & Friends

President Donald Trump lobbed a series of outrageous statements about the Iran war Thursday morning during a call to "Fox & Friends."

The 79-year-old president phoned in to the show he regularly watches to provide an update on the war, which he has escalated in recent days in response to the downing of a U.S. Army helicopter, and he complained at length about media coverage of the conflict, saying that Iranian officials have told him they appreciate the assistance from American journalists.

"You read the Wall Street Journal, they had an editorial today [suggesting] we're not hitting them hard enough," Trump said, chuckling. "Not hitting them hard enough? We dropped $250 million of bombs on them last night – you know, the whole thing is crazy. They're really in submission. They just don't know it yet."

Trump also claimed that he's growing less interested in reaching a peace deal and suggested he would like to escalate the war even further.

"I don't know if America has the appetite to do what I would really much prefer doing," he said. "You remember in Iraq, I said, 'Don't go in,' but they went in, they made a big mistake, it should have never – you know, that war lasted for 10 years. It killed tens of thousands of people, millions of people on both sides, millions of people – nobody ever reported that."

"We've lost 13 soldiers in two wars. In Venezuela, we lost none, took over the country, and in Iraq -- in Iran we lost 13," he added. "In Vietnam, we lost hundreds of thousands, 19 years – nobody says that. They say, three months, you've been there for three months. They've gone crazy because I've been there for three months."

The president's statements astounded observers.

"It was 58K in Vietnam," pointed out market analyst Chris Beauchamp, adding a vulgar acronym.

"If he were a serious person I would assume he means he would have approved the use of nuclear weapons," posted popular Bluesky user Philo of Alexan. "He is not a serious person, so this is just the usual Trump empty bragging."

"We wasted $250 million to make gas prices in America even higher… is not the flex he thinks it is," opined Friendly Atheist blogger Hemant Mehta.

"We dropped 1/7th of Trump’s slush fund on Iran last night," said political scientist Michael McDonald.

"To put this $250 million figure in context, that's the cost of 31 no-bid fountain repairs," noted the Majority Democrats' account.

"This would have fed and housed thousands of Americans," sighed widely followed X user Molly Ploofkins.

"Last week they cut $200 million from the WIC program to help pregnant women afford food," added Rep. Seth Magaziner (D-RI).

"Trump bragging about literally lighting our tax dollars on fire in his idiotic war as Republicans start pushing for even more Medicaid cuts," snarled popular X user Jesse Lee.

"Legitimately impressed in our collectively rationalize away the fact that the president is insane," marveled political scientist Josh Zingher. "We experiencing a level of mass delusion most societies could only dream of."