US President Donald Trump has sought to minimise the war with Iran, calling it “a little skirmish,” AFP reports.

“We’re in a little skirmish militarily. I call it a skirmish because Iran has no chance. They never did. They know it,” Trump has said during an Oval Office event on physical fitness among American kids.

Trump often touts the conflict as a resounding success, insisting, for example, that Iran’s navy has been destroyed.