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Trump has previously sparked criticism for swipes at servicemembers.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 7 months ago (1 children)

More recently, Trump came under scrutiny when The Atlantic reported in 2020 that he had called those who died in war "suckers" and "losers." Trump has vehemently denied the reported remarks, which President Biden repeated on the campaign trail before he dropped out of the race. ABC News has not independently confirmed the story.

In other words, ABC News is super duper lazy.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/john-kelly-confirms-trump-privately-disparaged-us-service-members-vete-rcna118543

[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Me: Yeah, whatever he said it's probably not good.

"But I really, I watched Sheldon sitting so proud in the White House when we gave Miriam the Presidential Medal of Freedom," he said. "That's the highest award you can get as a civilian. It's the equivalent of the Congressional Medal of Honor, but civilian version, it's actually much better, because everyone gets the Congressional Medal of Honor, they're soldiers. They're either in very bad shape because they've been hit so many times by bullets, or they're dead. She gets it and she's healthy, beautiful woman."

Me: OH, FUCK!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Bone Spurs McShart can only buy one of those medals like his buddies the Adelsons did so of course he thinks it’s better.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Always michael scotting his way through a fragment of a thought

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Sometimes I’ll start a sentence, and I don’t even know where it’s going. I just hope I find it along the way. Like an improv conversation. An improversation.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

The context for this comment is that he was recognizing a zionist billionaire donor that he gave a Presidential Medal of Freedom to. When he moved the embassy to Jerusalem and recognized it as Israel's capital, it was explicitly at her request. He said the Presidential Medal of Freedom was better than a Medal of Honor, because people who get the Medal of Honor are often injured or dead.

More evidence that self-sacrifice just does not make sense to him, a borderline psychopathic narcissist.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

Borderline?!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Does he have a deathwish? You don't fuck with served soldiers who even got a medal of honor. They know how to NOT MISS.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

'Sgt. Hugenutz singlehandedly defended his wounded platoon from an ambush, periodically picking up captured weapons and fighting hand to hand when ammo ran out, for 2 days straight before recovery teams arrived to withdraw. Suffered and survived 3 severe wounds he is credited with saving the lives of 10 men and costing the enemy over 500 casualties.'

"What a loser". - Some guy about to get his shit pushed in.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

No, but he has an insatiable craving for attention and saying outrageous things makes the media deliver him that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

ABC News - News Source Context (Click to view Full Report)Information for ABC News:

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