{"id":19820,"date":"2026-03-10T16:22:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T16:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/kaine-trump-calling-iran-war-an-excursion-is-deeply-disrespectful-to-service-members\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T16:22:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T16:22:43","slug":"kaine-trump-calling-iran-war-an-excursion-is-deeply-disrespectful-to-service-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/kaine-trump-calling-iran-war-an-excursion-is-deeply-disrespectful-to-service-members\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaine: Trump calling Iran war an &#8216;excursion&#8217; is &#8216;deeply disrespectful&#8217; to service members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) slammed President Trump for referring to the war in Iran as an &ldquo;excursion&rdquo; on Monday. &ldquo;You can&rsquo;t watch that and feel that that way of characterizing this is [not] deeply disrespectful,&rdquo; Kaine told host Kaitlan Collins on BLN&rsquo;s &ldquo;The Source,&rdquo; after watching the dignified transfer of Sgt&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/5776187-kaine-slams-trump-iran-war\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) slammed President Trump for referring to the war in Iran as an &ldquo;excursion&rdquo; on Monday. &ldquo;You can&rsquo;t watch that and feel that that way of characterizing this is [not] deeply disrespectful,&rdquo; Kaine told host Kaitlan Collins on BLN&rsquo;s &ldquo;The Source,&rdquo; after watching the dignified transfer of Sgt&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}