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Trump's half-cocked and loaded tweet draws barrage of reaction

A series of tweets written by US President Donald Trump regarding a retaliatory attack on Iran are displayed on a computer screen in New York, US, June 21, 2019. [Reuters]

US President Donald Trump, whose Twitter malaprops often set off a deluge of social media criticism, was targeted on Friday for a linguistic misfire involving the phrase “locked and loaded.”

In a series of tweets on Friday morning Trump outlined why he said he had decided to call off a military strike on Iran he had planned in response to its having shot down a U.S. drone. He said he decided the estimated death toll of 150 would be a disproportionate response.

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