President Donald Trump dismissed concerns over the USS Abraham Lincoln’s prolonged deployment, saying the carrier’s record-setting uninterrupted stretch of more than 240 days at sea was “not nearly long enough” even as scrutiny grows over sailors’ mental health, supplies and shipboard conditions. The Lincoln has spent nearly nine months supporting U.S. operations against Iran, a conflict Trump and his advisers had initially said would last only weeks but that is now more than five months old. Acting navy secretary Hung Cao said the ship “will return home soon,” while another carrier, USS George Washington, is expected to replace it. Democrats are pressing the Pentagon for answers on food inventory, sanitation, healthcare availability and how much longer the deployment will last, while Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has said reports about conditions were “completely misrepresented.” The episode highlights the strain that extended carrier deployments can place on service members and equipment as the U.S. maintains pressure in the Strait of Hormuz (a key oil shipping route) and offers little clarity on how the war will be wound down.