What did Donald Trump do today?

He talked about what he did and didn't care about in Iran.

Six days into his open-ended conflict with Iran, Trump still has not been able to clearly articulate why the attacks were launched, or when or why they might stop, or whether the conflict will take days or months. But he has begun to be more coherent on the subject of what about the war matters to him, as two interviews released today demonstrate.

The first was an excerpt from an as-yet-unreleased interview with Jonathan Karl of ABC News. Karl reported on social media that Trump eagerly asked if Karl was impressed with "the performance," apparently meaning the spectacle of the attacks, which have killed more than a thousand civilians.

To the "10-year period" claim, Trump was saying that Iran's nuclear program—which at this stage relies on portable and easily hidden centrifuges—was already "obliterated" last year, in a statement that remains up on the White House website.

The second was in an interview with Time released today. Reporter Eric Cortellessa asked Trump whether Americans were right to be concerned about Iranian reprisals, including attacks on American soil.

Trump responded: "I guess. But I think they’re worried about that all the time. We think about it all the time. We plan for it. But yeah, you know, we expect some things. Like I said, some people will die. When you go to war, some people will die."

Why does this matter?

• There needs to be a better reason for launching a costly, deadly, potentially years-long attack than Donald Trump's entertainment. 

• Presidents are supposed to give a shit whether Americans die.