Donald Trump abruptly cut short questions from reporters at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on Sunday night, walking away mid-sentence after being pressed about the length of his war with Iran and the recent deaths of three US troops. The encounter unfolded moments after Trump, now 80, stepped off Air Force One following a trip to the World Cup final in New Jersey.
The tense exchange came nearly five months into a conflict that Trump himself launched on 28 February, and which his own aides had initially framed as a short, sharply defined operation. Standing on the tarmac, he was reminded by a reporter that what the White House once described as a 'four or five-week' campaign in the Middle East has now stretched close to the five-month mark.
