{"id":260934,"date":"2026-05-08T14:24:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T10:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=260934"},"modified":"2026-05-08T15:55:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T11:55:34","slug":"trump-describes-us-iran-exchange-of-strikes-as-love-tap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/260934\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump describes US-Iran exchange of strikes as ‘love tap’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

US President Donald Trump has described the recent exchange of strikes between the United States and Iran in the Strait of Hormuz as a “love tap,” ABC News<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

“It’s just a love tap,” Trump told ABC News’ Rachel Scott when asked about the strike.<\/p>\n

Asked if the exchange meant the ceasefire, which began a month ago, was over, Trump responded, “No, no, the ceasefire is going. It’s in effect.”<\/p>\n

The US Central Command said it conducted “self-defense” strikes against Iranian targets after Iran fired at US destroyers transiting the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

US President Donald Trump has described the recent exchange of strikes between the United States and Iran in the Strait of Hormuz as a “love tap,” ABC News writes. “It’s just a love tap,” Trump told ABC News’ Rachel Scott when asked about the strike. Asked if the exchange meant the ceasefire, which began a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":260882,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260935,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260934\/revisions\/260935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}