A U.S. service member’s wife had a blunt response on Friday for President Donald Trump after he dismissed reports of poor conditions on the USS Abraham Lincoln, even as families expressed serious concerns about their loved ones.

CNN anchor Jake Tapper spoke with the unnamed woman, who shared that she could not identify herself over concerns for her husband’s safety and career. Tapper asked what her reaction was to Trump’s remarks after the president said he did not think the deployment was “long enough.” Nearly 5,000 sailors and Marines have been deployed on the warship for nine months in the Arabian Sea during the Iran war.

“Oh my God! I don’t think the man thinks before he talks,” she said. “I was really hoping that at some point there would be a redemption. Try to redeem yourself at least a little bit with everything that you do and everything that you say. Have some empathy. Take some accountability for what’s going on with your military, your ships, and your war. It’s infuriating.”

She slammed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Trump for their comments dismissing the reports of deteriorating conditions and low morale among the troops.

“What the president is saying today, essentially saying that families are lying and service members are lying, even though the proof is right here on my phone, it is not fabricated,” she said. “Nobody is lying.”

She criticized the Trump administration for not showing sympathy for service members “that they claim to scream and shout that they support when it’s politically sound for them to use, ‘support our troops, support our troops’ until our troops need support. And now suddenly everyone’s lying. And it’s a fabrication and it’s a misrepresentation.”

“I would so badly love to plaster my face and blow the whistle so loud on social media with my name and be like, ‘this is real. We are real people. Those are real people on that ship. This is actually happening.’ But unfortunately, I have to protect my husband’s career.”

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