Thoughtless emotional adoration has a way of blinding the likes of sree.
Good faith - sree you’ve written enough around here to show us that you don’t have a clue what “good faith” actually means.
Trump Has Mocked the U.S. Military His Whole Life
Egged on by his father, the U.S. president began expressing contempt for Americans who fight in wars as far back as high school, his classmates say.
BY MICHAEL HIRSH
| SEPTEMBER 8, 2020
Perhaps no one was less surprised last week when it was reported that U.S. President Donald Trump had called American war dead “losers” and “suckers” than his former high school classmate George M. White.
The 74-year-old retired Army veteran was Trump’s superior—the first captain, or highest-ranking cadet—in Trump’s 1964 graduating class at the New York Military Academy. White said he witnessed up close Trump’s contempt for military service, discipline, and tradition, as well his ungoverned sense of entitlement, all helped along by his father Fred Trump’s generous donations to the school.
“No, those remarks absolutely didn’t surprise me. In my dealings with him he was a heartless, obnoxious son of a bitch,” White told me in an interview over the weekend.
According to White and other former classmates at the academy, Trump’s five years there, coupled with the disregard for U.S. military traditions he learned at his father’s knee, helps explain a great deal of the president’s reported contempt for those who fought, died, or were wounded in America’s wars, as well as his skeptical view of the need for the United States to fight in places like Vietnam and Iraq.
Trump’s Contempt for the Military Is Overwhelming and Obvious
His denials of the Atlantic’s reporting are falling apart.
By WILLIAM SALETAN
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… Trump and Vice President Mike Pence have been asked repeatedly whether Kelly, the witness at the center of these stories, backs up Trump’s denials. On Friday, CNBC’s Kayla Tausche asked Pence about the cemetery visit: “There were two generals who were reported to have been present, Gen. Dunford and Gen. Kelly. Would you support their speaking out, to set the record straight?” Pence ducked the question. “I wasn’t in Paris, but it never happened,” he insisted. When Tausche asked Pence whether he was confident that Kelly and Dunford would agree, he ducked again. On Monday, reporters pressed Trump twice as to whether he had “asked John Kelly to refute” the Atlantic article. Trump tried to ignore the question and then said he hadn’t. In an ABC News interview on Tuesday, Trump’s former press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders begged off when she was asked to explain Kelly’s silence. …
… Trump has a long and well-documented history of contempt for military service. There’s audio of him congratulating a man for faking a disability, as Trump did, to escape the Vietnam draft. There’s video of him challenging the heroism of being a POW in 1999, as well as in 2015. Videos, transcripts, witness testimony, and his own tweets show him ridiculing American generals in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, and 2020. His own family members say he criticized his brother for going into the military and threatened to disown his son if he enlisted.
Exposing Trump’s lies and contempt won’t stop loyalists from defending him. On Sunday, when CNN’s Dana Bash pointed out that he had “denigrated prisoners of war” in his 2015 dig at captured service members, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert Wilkie shrugged off Trump’s words. “I judge a man by his actions,” said Wilkie. When Bash asked about Trump’s attack on Kelly’s temperament and performance, Wilkie refused to disagree. “I’m not going to get into a ‘he said, she said’ with the president and the former chief of staff,” he replied.
There’s nothing Trump’s cronies won’t excuse. …
You know sree, guy, just saying your hero is a contemptible malicious destructive murderous fraud . . . . . . . But you bow down to your magi - why, why, oh why???
... insulting military leadership is a lame indicator of contempt for the military.
oneguy, you are always looking for a colonel of truth that MIGHT (but doesn't really) support your wrongheaded conclusions.
Woodward reports on Trump’s tensions with military leaders, writing a Mattis aide heard Trump say in a meeting, "my f---ing generals are a bunch of pussies"because they cared more about alliances than trade deals. Mattis asked the aide to document the comment in an email.
Let us parse those bold and italicized words.
The t rump views the generals as HIS.
He calls them “fucking” generals. (Generally the adjective “fucking” could be construed as an indicator of contempt.
In the same sentence he calls “his” generals a bunch of “pussies”. This also might be construed as him having some contempt for them.
But the rest of the sentence betrays his real intent. He said “because they cared more about alliances than trade deals.” Hence his contempt seems to be actually aimed at the generals NOT being willing to do t rump’s every whim, specifically by using their military power to support him in any way that occurs to him, in order to bully his way thru trade deals.
The t rump wanted the military to be his goons in giving countries trade offers “that they couldn’t refuse”. His “contempt” for his generals, I contend, was for their unwillingness to act as mob goons to enforce his mafia style administration. The trump will try anything to get his way. And if he fails at first, he never really stops trying. He eventually takes over the depts and institutions of govt, this way. Many are now his direct puppets.
The military is just another mark that he intends to eventually be able to bend to his will, regardless of the legality of what he wants them to do.