Trump lies to troops about their pay..............:(

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Tacomaman

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Given the frequency of Trump's lies, most are hardly deserving of their own thread. However, given where this one occurred and who the target audience was, this one may just take the "audacity" award.

Standing in front of troops putting their lives on the line to defend him as well as you and I, Trump falsely tells the troops that HE got them the biggest pay raise ever and the first one in TEN YEARS.

Simply put, that is a BOLD FACE LIE. The military has gotten a raise EVERY year since i believe 1983 and that was simply a technical "snafu" that was corrected. Like ALL spending measures, they are Congressional actions, not Presidential Executive Orders.
 
Trump being Trump. Lies are what he deals in. He is a conman. Many of us can see through him, but apparently, many cannot.
 
Nordberg said:
Trump being Trump. Lies are what he deals in. He is a conman. Many of us can see through him, but apparently, many cannot.
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2019 will bring the Trump Organization down to it's knees ....

I'm going to have a blast watching it happen, and even a bigger blast watching Trump take down Republicans
 
Frankly at this juncture we may all want to keep an ear on Don; if you catch him saying anything truthful, be alarmed then. But not over his lying, that's the norm.
 
Trump's problem gets serious when the Repubs figure out that Trump is costing them votes. Up to now, they were afraid of being primaried for not supporting him. In many states, he was a positive, but the midterms showed that is gone. Now will Trump cause them to lose their seats. That is when they will turn on him. Trump has no friends. He is an equal opportunity insulter. The reds have been careful not to offend Daffy, but they will start doing it pretty soon. Then this nightmare will be over. Nixon was taken down by Repubs who finally recognized their duty to the nation over the party. These guys don't care about that, but don't cost them votes .
 
Nordberg said:
Trump's problem gets serious when the Repubs figure out that Trump is costing them votes. Up to now, they were afraid of being primaried for not supporting him. In many states, he was a positive, but the midterms showed that is gone. Now will Trump cause them to lose their seats. That is when they will turn on him. Trump has no friends. He is an equal opportunity insulter. The reds have been careful not to offend Daffy, but they will start doing it pretty soon. Then this nightmare will be over. Nixon was taken down by Repubs who finally recognized their duty to the nation over the party. These guys don't care about that, but don't cost them votes .
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Does anything matter so long as the Wall Street/donor/"job creator" class is able to manage the economic system as sharecropping? Not really no. The illusion and theatrics are for the masses to occupy themselves with while the wealth redistribution continues upward underneath all the chaos and manufactured/orchestrated anxiety.
 
Tacomaman said:
Given the frequency of Trump's lies, most are hardly deserving of their own thread. However, given where this one occurred and who the target audience was, this one may just take the "audacity" award.

Standing in front of troops putting their lives on the line to defend him as well as you and I, Trump falsely tells the troops that HE got them the biggest pay raise ever and the first one in TEN YEARS.

Simply put, that is a BOLD FACE LIE. The military has gotten a raise EVERY year since i believe 1983 and that was simply a technical "snafu" that was corrected. Like ALL spending measures, they are Congressional actions, not Presidential Executive Orders.
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Politicizing the Military Is Uniformly Wrong

Trump’s visit to U.S. troops was marred by overtly political rhetoric. That’s not normal—but his defenders don’t care.


he surprise visit by President Donald Trump to military personnel in Iraq and Germany the day after Christmas was a particularly welcome development, given his previous departure from this time-honored tradition of his predecessors around the holiday season.

The visits were marred, however, by the president’s overtly political rhetoric and by his encouragement of the small number of uniformed personnel who offered him their “Make America Great Again” hats to sign, or who displayed campaign banners. It’s the latest instance of the erosion of long-standing commitments to apolitical institutions—and the comparative indifference with which these acts were greeted ought to worry all of us.

Employees of the U.S. government, in general, face restrictions on the “political activity” in which they can engage in the workplace. Uniformed members of the U.S. military are arguably held to a high standard of nonpolitical behavior, even outside the workplace and particularly while in uniform.

The presence of campaign paraphernalia at a presidential visit—and the president’s blithe disregard for protocol in choosing to sign some of that paraphernalia, to say nothing of his politically tinged speech to military personnel in a war zone—runs afoul of at least the spirit, if not the letter, of written rules such as Department of Defense Directive 1344.10 (Political Activities) and Uniform Code of Military Justice Article 88 (Contempt Toward Officials) and Article 134 (General Article).

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/newsopinion/politicizing-the-military-is-uniformly-wrong/ar-BBRuIYC
 
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