Kaine: Trump calling Iran war an 'excursion' is 'deeply disrespectful' to service members

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Source: The Hill

03/09/26 11:06 PM ET


Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) slammed President Trump for referring to the war in Iran as an “excursion” on Monday. “You can’t watch that and feel that that way of characterizing this is [not] deeply disrespectful,” Kaine told host Kaitlan Collins on CNN’s “The Source,” after watching the dignified transfer of Sgt. Benjamin N. Pennington at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.

Pennington, from Glendale, Ky., died on Sunday from injuries sustained during an Iranian attack on a Saudi Arabian military base seven days earlier. He is the seventh U.S. service member to die in the conflict with Iran since it began on Feb. 28, along with Sgt. 1st Class Nicole Amor of White Bear Lake, Minn.; Capt. Cody Khork of Lakeland, Fla.; Sgt. 1st Class Noah Tietjens of Bellevue, Neb.; Sgt. Declan Coady of Des Moines, Iowa; Maj. Jeffrey O’Brien of Indianola, Iowa; and Chief Warrant Officer Three Robert Marzan of Sacramento, Calif.

Earlier Monday, Trump called the war “a little excursion” during a House Republican retreat at his golf resort in Doral, Florida. “We took a little excursion because we felt we had to do that to get rid of some evil,” the president said. “And I think you’ll see it’s [going to] be a short-term excursion.”

Democrats on Capitol Hill have largely criticized the war. Kaine was joined on CNN Monday by Democratic Sens. Tammy Baldwin (Wisc.), Cory Booker (N.J.) and Adam Schiff (Calif.), as the quartet called for public hearings from Trump administration officials on the conflict. “This president has been anything but clear from the very outset,” Baldwin said.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5776187-kaine-slams-trump-iran-war/

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1. Kaine, dude, trump has no respect for serve rive members.

Never has had.

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2. Are, "excursions," listed anywhere in the military budget?

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3. Sign up for your excursion now

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4. Trump aides aware of president's repeated gaffe - but are 'afraid to correct him': report

trump is too senile/stupid to know the difference between “excursion” and “incursion." trump's aides know the difference but they do NOT dare correct trump. Every time that trump uses the term "excursion" instead of incursion, I laugh. Again, trump is too senile to sue the right term and his aides are too scared to correct trump.

Trump aides aware of president’s repeated gaffe – but are ‘afraid to correct him’: report

— Raw Story (@rawstory.com) 2026-03-14T16:00:13Z

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2676102711

President Donald Trump has been ridiculed in recent days for repeatedly referring to his administration’s military siege on Iran as an “excursion,” a potential mix-up with the word “incursion,” but according to a new report from Zeteo, his aides are well aware of the blunder but refuse to correct him out of fear.

“I’m not telling him,” a Trump administration official told Zeteo on Friday, speaking on the condition of anonymity.

The word “excursion,” as explained by MS NOW’s Jonathan Lemire on Friday, generally refers to “a short, organized pleasure trip, à la snorkeling,” whereas an “incursion” is a “sudden, often hostile entrance or invasion into a territory or place,” a far more appropriate term to describe the Trump administration’s operation in Iran.

And yet, despite the obvious blunder, Trump officials told Zeteo that correcting the president would be “a fool’s errand,” and that “doing so would likely get them yelled at,” the outlet reported.

“We say ‘incursion,’ the boss says ‘excursion.’ It’s not a big deal,” a second Trump official told Zeteo, also speaking on the condition of anonymity.

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5. Another name change-Department of Defense is now the Department of Excursions