Trump downplays US-Iran attacks as ‘love tap’ — insists cease-fire is still holding despite attack on Navy ships 

Caitlin Doornbos / NEW YORK POST 

WASHINGTON — President Trump on Thursday brushed off Iran’s attack Thursday on three US Navy ships as the White House clung to what’s left of an increasingly challenged cease-fire and burgeoning framework for peace talks.

“Three World Class American Destroyers just transited, very successfully, out of the Strait of Hormuz, under fire,” he posted to Truth Social. “There was no damage done to the three Destroyers.”

The president poetically described the event as an overwhelming loss for the “Iranian attackers,” who he said were “completely destroyed along with numerous small boats, which are being used to take the place of their fully decapitated Navy.”

“These boats went to the bottom of the Sea, quickly and efficiently. Missiles were shot at our Destroyers, and were easily knocked down,” he said. “Likewise, drones came, and were incinerated while in the air. They dropped ever so beautifully down to the Ocean, very much like a butterfly dropping to its grave!” Read more, see photos and video here.