Trump Claimed Total Control of Iran’s Airspace. Then Two Warplanes Were Downed

US President Donald Trump during a prime-time address to the nation in the Cross Hall of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, April 1, 2026. —Doug Mills—The New York Times/Bloomberg via Getty Images In the first days of the Iran war, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the United States would have “uncontested []