US President Donald Trump has once again rejected the news of the alarming decline in US arms and ammunition stockpiling in the seventh month of the US-Israel war with Iran, which reported that Trump has reportedly called the media ‘traitor’ in a report by Al-Jazeera, a reporter from Qatar-based news agency Al-Jazeera.
In a post on social media truth social media Trump claims that the US military is producing unprecedented ammunition and has more weapons than necessary.
He said the US military is making ammunition ‘never seen before’ and to them ‘more than we can use,’' he said. There are too many weapons.
Trump has also criticized the media reporting on the decline in US arms stockpiles, calling them a ‘traitor garbage’ and denying the situation of the war with Iran.
Earlier, Trump had made similar comments about the decline in US arms stockpiles in August, a report in the Washington Post, which said Trump was unhappy with the defense minister Pete Hegseth.
At the time, Trump threatened to take strict action against information leakers in the media, saying that the information was found in the leak of those involved in the leaked information. They will be taken out and they will be tried to be sentenced to long term imprisonment.
But the news of the decline in US weapons stockpiles is not limited to media reports, and various military and defense experts have also expressed concerns about the issue.
A July analysis by the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) said that the United States has only a third of the Patriot missiles with a little more than one-third, while the terminal high altitude area defense or the Thad missile has almost half of the stockpile of the defense system.
CSIS also said that a large number of US offensive weapons have also been used in the war against Iran, including the Tomahawk cruise missile, joint air-to-surface stand-off missile (JASSSM) and Precision Strike Missile (PSRM).
Although the Trump administration has taken the initiative to increase the production of arms with a new contract with defense contractors, experts have warned that it may take at least two years to restore the stockpile of important weapons.
Some of the former US military officials have warned that in the short term, the shortage of weapons could have a negative impact on the US's resistance to adversaries with more advanced weapons technology than Iran.
Meanwhile, concerns about the US media relations with the Trump administration are also growing, which has been linked to the freedom of the press, saying that Trump has taken several alarming actions against the critical media after taking office for the second time in 2025.
Trump is also accused of pressuring central broadcasting regulators to cancel broadcast licenses in some media outlets, dissatisfied with media reports.
