WATCH: Trump says USS Lincoln's deployment was 'not nearly long enough' | PBS News

Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colo., who served three tours in Iraq and Afghanistan with the 82nd Airborne Division and 75th Ranger Regiment before being elected, took to social media to criticize Trump's comments, saying on X that "President Trump does not care about our servicemembers or their families."…

 https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-trump-says-uss-lincolns-deployment-was-not-nearly-long-enough

 

Pete Hegseth dismisses reports of deteriorating conditions on USS Abraham Lincoln

Defense secretary said conditions on aircraft carrier deployed in support of Iran war have been ‘completely misrepresented’…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/13/uss-abraham-conditions-hegseth

 

USS Abraham Lincoln sailors tried to jump overboard amid extended deployment – reports

Two leading specialist military papers, the Navy Times and Stars and Stripes, are reporting that there have been multiple attempts by sailors to jump overboard as poor conditions and mental stresses on the Lincoln reach the breaking point. The crew is in its ninth month at sea, and has spent 250 days consecutively without making land – a record for an aircraft carrier in modern times...

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/12/uss-abraham-lincoln-overboard-extended-deployment

 

Pentagon deploys top aircraft carrier as Trump militarisation of Caribbean ratchets up

Asked whether he would declare war against the cartels, Trump suggested he would continue with individual strikes. "I think we're just going to kill people that are bringing drugs into our country, OK?" he said. "We're going to kill them, you know they're going to be, like, dead."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/24/trump-caribbean-uss-gerald-ford-carrier

 

In Abrupt Reversal of Iran Strategy, Pentagon Orders Aircraft Carrier Home - The New York Times

... "This decision sends at best a mixed signal to Iran, and reduces our range of options at precisely the wrong time," said Matthew Spence, a former top Pentagon Middle East policy official. "It calls into serious question what the administration's strategy is here."...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/01/us/politics/iran-trump.html