Trump clarifies Lutnick's Iran war death toll remarks
US President Donald Trump responded to comments made by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick regarding American casualties in the Iran conflict. Trump stated that Lutnick was actually thinking about Venezuela when he claimed no one had died, noting that 18 people were killed in Iran. Lutnick had previously remarked that the president’s handling of Iran had resulted in no American deaths, a statement for which he later apologized.