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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Trump asked his staff not to include wounded veterans..."
"...on the grounds that spectators would feel uncomfortable in the presence of amputees. "Nobody wants to see that" he said".
(Trump at a planning meeting for his proposed military parade)
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/09/trump-americans-who-died-at-war-are-losers-and-suckers/615997/
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"Trump asked his staff not to include wounded veterans..." (Original Post)
brooklynite
Sep 2020
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pwb
(11,265 posts)1. What a pig of a man?
Absolutely awful in every way.
BootinUp
(47,145 posts)2. im sure theres a bible story that applies here. nt
NanceGreggs
(27,814 posts)3. I'm surprised that he didn't want them there ...
... given how much delight he takes in mocking the disabled.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)4. Maybe some vestigial trace of humanity told him
That it wouldn't be good look to call Sen. Duckworth "Stumpy" or Rep. Crenshaw "Cyclops."