President Donald Trump on Friday dismissed claims that families of service members aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln have concerns about conditions aboard the aircraft carrier, which has been deployed for nearly nine months supporting operations in the Middle East.
Instead, Trump claimed the ship’s lengthy deployment had in fact not been long enough.
“No, they’re not,” Trump said when asked by reporters at Joint Base Andrews about relatives of those aboard the ship expressing worry about mental health and living conditions for their relatives.
He said the Lincoln was moving out of the region soon, and would be replaced by “another, very similar, ship.”
But asked whether the Lincoln’s eight-and-a-half months at sea was too long, Trump claimed the opposite was true.
