Guno צְבִי
We fight, We win, Am Yisrael Chai
When The Military Times released new survey results this week showing President Trump’s falling support among service members, it seemed like that would be Trump’s worst military news of the week. Then came Thursday.
Senior administration officials shared with The Atlantic a slew of incendiary and derogatory comments Trump has made in the last three years against U.S. service members, past and present. The comments are, predictably, bad.
The first took place on Memorial Day 2017 in Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery — where veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan are buried. Trump arrived with then-Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly and others. Kelly’s son Robert, also a Marine, is buried in Section 60. He was killed in Afghanistan in 2010.
While visiting the younger Kelly’s gravesite, Trump reportedly turned to his future chief of staff and said, “I don’t get it. What was in it for them?”
When Trump speaks of American military dead, Republicans and Democrats alike, it’s always about “losers.” But that’s not the only word he uses. On the same trip, according to The Atlantic, he referred to the more than 1,800 marines killed at Belleau Wood as “suckers.”
And because there is no bottom, it gets worse.
In 2018, as Trump was planning a military parade at the White House, he asked senior staff not to include wounded veteran amputees because people would feel uncomfortable around them. “Nobody wants to see that,” he reportedly said.
https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion...0200904-6fpvd56hxngi5ia5iwbr67zlae-story.html
Senior administration officials shared with The Atlantic a slew of incendiary and derogatory comments Trump has made in the last three years against U.S. service members, past and present. The comments are, predictably, bad.
The first took place on Memorial Day 2017 in Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery — where veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan are buried. Trump arrived with then-Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly and others. Kelly’s son Robert, also a Marine, is buried in Section 60. He was killed in Afghanistan in 2010.
While visiting the younger Kelly’s gravesite, Trump reportedly turned to his future chief of staff and said, “I don’t get it. What was in it for them?”
When Trump speaks of American military dead, Republicans and Democrats alike, it’s always about “losers.” But that’s not the only word he uses. On the same trip, according to The Atlantic, he referred to the more than 1,800 marines killed at Belleau Wood as “suckers.”
And because there is no bottom, it gets worse.
In 2018, as Trump was planning a military parade at the White House, he asked senior staff not to include wounded veteran amputees because people would feel uncomfortable around them. “Nobody wants to see that,” he reportedly said.
https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion...0200904-6fpvd56hxngi5ia5iwbr67zlae-story.html
