Opinion: The craziest statements from Donald Trump since the start of the war

Donald Trump is the least Presidential US President of all time. Five years ago, someone might have debated me, but that ship sailed long ago and was probably blown up in the Caribbean Sea by Donny months later. Donald Trump manages to spout so much nonsense that most of it falls under the radar. His MAGA base has long closed its ears to the saviour's demented rants, and the rest of the world has become numb to the sheer insanity that manages to flow from Trump's wrinkled lips.

Trump's comments often go from insulting to hateful, and stop at offensive somewhere in between, but lately, his comments have been unredeemingly soulless. When Donald Trump worked to get elected in 2016, he pretended to care about Americans, “America first,” he would chortle while raising one tiny fist above his head. Now, Donald Trump is publicly shaming Americans, and openly telling military service members that their lives are expendable. Instead of ranting about Trump's unhinged behaviour, I'm going to be collecting some of the most egregious things that America's fearless leader has said. From foreign policy to people with disability, and everything in between, these are my thoughts on Donald Trump's least Presidential comments of his second term.

‘Some of you may die.'

I'm going to start with the quote that prompted this article. On March 2^nd, the White House released a video on its social feeds. The video featured Donald Trump wearing his ever-so-dignified ball cap, announcing that the US would be continuing its operations in Iran. The speech was chock-full of unproven facts and borderline Islamophobic comments, but it was one line that struck a chord with everyone. Midway through the video, as Trump is clearly trying to convince Americans to mount their horses and take arms against the Arab enemy, he says this:

“The lives of courageous American heroes may be lost, and we may have casualties — that often happens in war.”

Trump says it like it will embolden Americans, like dying for Donald Trump in Iran is the most honourable thing an American can do. Trump delivered the line with complete confidence, and its reception has been unanimously negative.

Parallels were immediately drawn between Trump's speech and Lord Farquaad's from the DreamWorks movie Shrek.

I understand that what Trump said is overtly true: people die in war. But the fact that Donald Trump can't see an issue with Americans dying in a war that he (Israel) has manufactured is telling. An infamous draft dodger himself, Trump couldn't risk his own safety in Vietnam, but has no problem shipping Americans to the Middle East to fight an oil war.

There's, of course, the added layer of Trump's use of the word ‘war. The United States is not in a state of war right now and has not officially declared war on Iran, yet. Trump knows that invoking a state of war will have international consequences, and the political consequences of his ‘operations' are already dire enough.

A 15/10 war

While Trump and Netanyahu's war on Iran has caused the deaths of thousands and has displaced millions of people across Iran, Lebanon, and the Gulf countries, luckily, Trump thinks it's great! On March 4, Donald Trump decided to rate his war on Iran on a scale of ten. Now, this was an unforced error; nobody actually asked him to rate the war. Just seconds after sitting down for the press conference and praising the military, Trump decided to attempt some banter. He joked into the mic, “Somebody said on a scale of ten, what would you rate it? ‘I said a 15.'” While I'm sure that nobody actually asked Donald Trump to rate a deadly conflict on a scale of 1 to 10, I wonder how long it took him to come up with the gag.

While the joke was bad, the comment before it was almost worse. Trump says, ‘These are exciting times.' Who in their right mind would call declaring war on the Middle East ‘exciting times'? We're not watching the moon landing, we're watching people die.

Flipping on healthcare?

We're going back nearly a year for this one, but it's a quote I've kept in mind for an article just like this. In August 2025, Donald Trump was making comments about ‘dropping' drug prices when it became abundantly clear he had no idea how math works. Trump claimed that he had lowered drug prices by 1,200, 1,300, 1,400, 1,500%. Yes, fifteen hundred percent, not 15. Trump even clarified afterwards, stating ‘And I don't mean 50%, I mean I mean 14, 1,500 percent.”

Social media caught this one right away, with thousands of people commenting about the mathematical inaccuracies. The public correctly pointed out that if drug prices had sunk any more than 100 percent, then they would cost negative money, meaning the government would be paying the public. With Trump's numbers, a $100 prescription should actually mean a $1,400 rebate to the consumer. Pretty sure Americans would have noticed if the pharmacy started paying their rent for them.

Uncaring words

Donald Trump has nearly exclusively used un-presidential language when speaking about his war on Iran. His comments have dehumanized Arabs and his own American troops, placing political motivations over lives. Donald Trump's war on Iran has nothing to do with the safety of the American people, and it has nothing to do with stopping Iran's nuclear agenda. Ali Khamenei's reign in Iran was marred by terror. Mainly against his own citizens, but that doesn't give America and Israel the right to break international law and begin killing nearly indiscriminately. While experts debate on whether or not Israel forced Donald Trump's hand, the result has been the same: death and destruction in the Middle East. It's practically a rite of passage for American Presidents to bomb the Middle East, but no President has ever used such inflammatory and dehumanizing language about the victims of their attacks, or the American troops sacrificing their lives for America's bottom line.

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