Trump's Callous Arithmetic: Downplaying War Deaths in Iran President Donald Trump has a penchant for reducing complex issues to simplistic, even cruel arithmetic.
His latest effort to downplay the rising death toll in the war with Iran is a case in point.
By comparing the fatalities in this four month conflict to those of longer, multi year wars like Vietnam and Afghanistan, Trump appears to be engaged in a disturbing exercise: trying to normalize the cost of human life.