A new website launched this week compiles more than 60 video clips of Donald Trump promising the war with Iran would end soon — a project timed to a conflict that has dragged on for months without a resolution. The site, AboutTwoWeeks.com, was built by the veterans political group VoteVets alongside Home of the Brave, and it features an interactive scrolling calendar tracking the president's repeated, shifting deadlines for ending the fighting.
The military campaign against Iran, launched by the United States and Israel, shuttered the Strait of Hormuz and sent global oil prices skyrocketing, according to the seed facts underlying Denver7's reporting on the campaign. Back on March 31, when Trump was asked about his timeline for the war and when it might end, he said, “We're finishing the job,” and predicted the war could end within about two weeks or, he added, a couple of days longer. Months later, the war has remained without a long-term end, which is precisely the gap the new project is designed to highlight for voters.
Calendar of Broken Promises
The campaign video features clips of Trump promising a quick end to the war, layered over a scrolling calendar, and concludes with the line: “No more deadlines. No more excuses. End the war.” VoteVets and Home of the Brave say the project aims to remind voters of Trump's shifting war timelines and is targeted at veterans and Americans broadly interested in national security matters. Per Denver7's reporting, Tuesday's release marks the second digital messaging campaign the two groups have aimed specifically at veterans, following an early-September campaign opposing Trump's proposed triumphal arch, which would be built at the entrance to Arlington National Cemetery and faces objections from many veterans and military families.
Home of the Brave spokesperson Sarah Matthews, who served as White House deputy press secretary during Trump's first term, said the president's repeated promises to end the war in about two weeks are intended to hide that he has no plan and no cards left to play. Matthews said the group will continue calling out what she described as an insult to America's heroes. The White House did not respond to an inquiry about the new campaign or Trump's timeline to end the war, according to Denver7.
The Human and Financial Toll
The conflict has caused at least 19 U.S. servicemembers to be killed and more than 800 injured, per the seed reporting, alongside more than $100 billion in additional gas and diesel costs for Americans. Separately, VoteVets said on X that the Pentagon quietly added 37 more wounded troops to its official tally, bringing the total figure to 861 — a figure the group has publicized but that has not been independently verified against a primary military source.
The toll has also included American combat deaths beyond the broader tally. According to CNN, a July strike on a U.S. base in Jordan killed three American service members, part of a pattern intelligence officials say reflects Iran's improving precision. CNN reports that satellite imagery and intelligence support provided by Chinese groups have helped Iran threaten ships in the Strait of Hormuz and launch more precise strikes on U.S. military bases in the Middle East, and that the Trump administration sanctioned three Chinese satellite companies in May over imagery officials said enabled those strikes.
Fighting Continues Near the Strait
As the war drags into its seventh month, officials say Iran has adapted its battlefield tactics and grown steadily more accurate as sporadic waves of strikes have continued in recent months, per the same CNN report. During one recent escort operation, U.S. forces intercepted more than a dozen Iranian missiles, shot down nearly 20 drones, and conducted offensive operations against roughly 60 targets around the strait.
Diplomatically, the picture remains contested. U.S. ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz said the Trump administration rejected an Iranian proposal to end the war because negotiators were, in his words, “asking for everything up front,” according to the Guardian. Waltz said the president is just not confident that the Iranians are coming in good faith. He also rejected reporting that the U.S. would resume bombing Iran after the November midterm elections.
Trump himself said the U.S. was “winning tremendously” and had “total control of the Hormuz strait,” per the Guardian, and said he expected more talks with Iran in the coming week, adding that Iran wants to make a deal but “not the deal that I want to make.” Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Iran was “fully prepared for the war to be resumed” but remained open to diplomacy, while Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Iran was ready for talks on its nuclear program and other issues but would not accept “bullying or coercion.”
Polling and Political Stakes
Public opinion has soured on the conflict. A recent NBC News poll found more than six in ten voters say the war has not been worth it, and 57 percent of respondents said they would be less likely to vote for a candidate who backs it, according to the seed facts. That sentiment is fueling a broader political push: the New York Times reports VoteVets is pouring an additional $4.5 million into ads attacking Representative Ashley Hinson over her support for the war, even after Hinson called for an “immediate end” to the conflict following a half-dozen votes against directing Trump to halt it.
VoteVets, formed in 2006 to support Democratic veterans running in opposition to the Iraq War, has already shown its financial muscle this cycle. The Times notes the group spent $9.7 million on digital and television ads plus direct mail in Iowa's open Senate Democratic primary, a race won by Josh Turek. The group describes itself as the largest Democratic veterans organization in America, representing more than 1.5 million veterans, families and supporters, according to its own social media posts.
