00:00President Donald Trump is facing criticism after being seen playing golf while updates
00:04continue to emerge about casualties linked to the ongoing conflict with Iran.
00:07Trump was spotted on Sunday morning playing at Trump National Doral Miami in Miami.
00:12A video shared online showed the 79-year-old president returning from a round of golf on
00:17the course.
00:17The appearance came just one day after Trump attended a dignified transfer ceremony for
00:21six American service members killed during the conflict.
00:25In the video, the president was seen wearing the same baseball cap he had worn during the
00:29ceremony.
00:29The moment quickly drew criticism from several political figures.
00:34Hakeem Jeffries posted on social media questioning the president's priorities, writing that the
00:38country was at war while Trump was on the golf course.
00:41Gavin Newsom also commented online, saying Trump was golfing while the conflict continued
00:45and energy prices were rising.
00:47Newsom later added in another post that a seventh American soldier had died.
00:51Democratic commentator Harry Sisson also criticized the president, comparing the reaction to what
00:56might have happened if another president had played golf during a war.
00:59The criticism came amid renewed attention to Trump's appearance at Saturday's dignified
01:03transfer ceremony.
01:04During the event honoring fallen service members, Trump wore a white baseball cap with gold-embroidered
01:09USA lettering.
01:11According to publicly available images, previous U.S. presidents have not typically worn baseball
01:15caps during dignified transfer ceremonies.
01:18The criticism comes during an escalating conflict that began when the United States and Israel launched
01:22a joint aerial bombing campaign on Iran on February 28.
01:26The strikes reportedly killed several senior Iranian figures, including the country's supreme
01:30leader Ali Khamenei, along with other top officials.
01:33Iran later carried out retaliatory strikes across the region.
01:36On March 1, six American reservists were killed when an Iranian drone struck a mobile operations
01:41center in Port Shwaiba, Kuwait.
01:44Later, United States Central Command announced that a seventh U.S. service member had died.
01:48From injuries sustained during the attacks, in a video address on March 1, Trump said that
01:53more American deaths were likely before the conflict ends.
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