{"id":85209,"date":"2026-08-06T08:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T12:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=85209"},"modified":"2026-08-06T08:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T12:30:13","slug":"trump-denies-missile-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/trump-denies-missile-shortage\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Denies Missile Shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From the London Independent:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>President\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u00a0has reacted angrily to reporting that he\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/us-politics\/trump-hegseth-iran-war-weapons-shortage-b3028334.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">confronted Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth<\/a>\u00a0over a alleged munitions shortage caused by the\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/middle-east\/iran-us-war-live-trump-hormuz-strikes-oil-news-b3027628.html\">Iran war<\/a>, threatening the \u201cleakers\u201d who spoke to the press with jail.\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2026\/08\/05\/trump-hegseth-clashed-camp-david-over-iran-missile-depletion-concerns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><em>The Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0Wednesday that Trump had accosted Hegseth at\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/camp-david\">Camp David<\/a>\u00a0in<\/span> Maryland after a Cabinet meeting last Friday, saying he thought the problem \u201chad been fixed,\u201d only for the White House to call the story \u201c100 percent fake news.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump in turn lashed out on Truth Social after midnight, writing: \u201cThe U.S. has massive amounts of \u2018munitions,\u2019 especially of certain types. Additionally, large amounts are being manufactured and shipped to the U.S. as needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the London Independent: President\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0has reacted angrily to reporting that he\u00a0confronted Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth\u00a0over a alleged munitions shortage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85209","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85211,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85209\/revisions\/85211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}