Posted on 06/09/2026 10:50:43 AM PDT by V_TWIN
President Trump confirmed Tuesday that Iran shot down the American Apache attack helicopter that crashed near the Strait of Hormuz, vowing to respond to Tehran’s latest act of aggression.
“I have just been informed by our Great Military that last night the Iranians shot down one of our highly sophisticated Apache Helicopters while patrolling over the Strait of Hormuz,” the president wrote on Truth Social.
“There were two pilots involved, both are safe and uninjured. Nevertheless, the United States must, of necessity, respond to this attack,” he added.
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Not holding my breath.
Agree.
Ret. Gen Keane on Fox News the first night of Jesse Watters gleefully announcing: “we have a ceasefire” said “The Iranians worked to get the Americans to agree to a ceasefire. The Iranians now have their ceasefire.”
When trump talks like this you know it won’t be serious strike
That’s how much he values the service men
If he were serious he would have knocked out Irans oil’s refineries
>> they are SO pissed at Trump right now, they feel betrayed by him
My backing of PDJT is still solid, but he appears to be listening to the wrong advice at the moment.
It occurs to me that the loudest of the wrong-headed voices might just be J. D. Vance. Vance is buddy-buddy with way too many of the groyper jew-hating pacifist “next gen” sorta-right.
>> In any event, the political will isn’t there.
You do realize that I was only venting, right? But if it were possible to hit ‘em all on the same Friday, and I was Supreme Leader, it would sure be tempting! :-)
I’ll believe it when I see it.
It will never end with Iran if we continue to seek an agreement. They are not interested. Cripple them. Take down their power grid and bridges. They will never surrender so just destroy them and end the threat. They give us no other choice.
You can’t hug a child with nuclear arms.
Boo Hoo, Better them than the Americans Trump betrayed to fight their war.
Netanyahu wants the U.S. military to finish off Iran.
How are they doing this when Trump declared total victory so many times now?
Nah, don't do that. Since music is haram since it supposedly didn't exist in Mohammad's time, take out the power grid and keep rinsing and repeating for the same reason.
“Israel wants to finish Iran off...”
So that’s the reason for this war?
Take out every mosque in the US while you’re at it.
TACO 🌮 TRUMP
What a loser
Trump downplays downing of Apache helicopter: It wasn’t a big deal
Trump downplays Iran’s downing of a US helicopter in Strait of Hormuz, despite earlier vow that the US would respond
USA is cooked. Taiwan 🇹🇼 is concerned
Put this in your pipe and smoke it jackass
Trump ordered our military to only launch strikes in a “proportional response.”
He is not going to do much apparently.
Proportional, Trump told WSJ “not a big deal” that Iran shot down our Apache helicopter. Perhaps we should change the name of those helicopters.
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