The Trump administration’s bumbling effort to pretend it’s not fighting a war has pushed it into covering up the deaths of American soldiers.

From Pentagon website discrepancies to Trump’s callous bragging to the maddening refusal to admit to the Minab school strike, shadiness abounds.

Pentagon press secretary Joel Valdez argued Thursday that the drop in casualty figures in the online system was not an effort to hide the growing human toll of the war.