Senator says Trump's midnight rant hinted at 'real problem' in Iran: 'Rationing munitions'

The top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee sounded the alarm that President Donald Trump launched a war without having enough weapons.

The 79-year-old president fired off a Truth Social post Monday night stating that the U.S. military had a "virtually unlimited supply" of munitions that would allow the war to continue "forever," but he also blamed former President Joe Biden for giving away too many weapons to Ukraine.

"Sleepy Joe Biden spent all of his time, and our Country’s money, GIVING everything to P.T. Barnum (Zelenskyy!) of Ukraine – Hundreds of Billions of Dollars worth – And, while he gave so much of the super high end away (FREE!), he didn’t bother to replace it," Trump posted. "Fortunately, I rebuilt the military in my first term, and continue to do so. The United States is stocked, and ready to WIN, BIG!!!"

Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI) cast doubt on the president's assurances on the third day of Operation Epic Fury.

"Well, I think at firstsuggests to me that we do nothave an unlimited arms," Reed told "CNN News Central." "Thepresident is trying to put agood face on a situation which,not immediately, but certainlywithin a weeks or months, we'regoing to run into a crisis ofhaving sufficient arms. That iswhy over the last year, the Department of Defense has beeninvesting significantly onincreased arms productionbecause, even without thisconflict, they anticipated thatwe would not have adequatenumber of arms for a majorconflict."

"I think thepresident is simply trying todispense with the real problem,which is that at some point wehave to start rationing ourarms, and again, the questionis, when is it – this week?" Reed added. "Is itfive weeks? Is it five months? The whole question of unlimitedtermless war is something that weface. I don't know of any warin the Middle East that has beenshort and sweet, other than the1991 attack against Iraq. Butthat was limited by President George Herbert Walker Bushhimself. They were theyunderstood they didn't want togo all the way to Baghdad, amistake that was made by his son George W. Bush."