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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI wonder how that veteran feels about giving Trump his purple heart
https://www.cnn.com/2016/08/02/politics/donald-trump-purple-heart/index.html"I always wanted to get the Purple Heart. This was much easier," Trump said."
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I wonder how that veteran feels about giving Trump his purple heart (Original Post)
TexasBushwhacker
Sep 2020
OP
At the time I thought the man would regret it. A normal President would have...
EarnestPutz
Sep 2020
#2
I had the same thought. With Joe it almost goes without saying. He will be...
EarnestPutz
Sep 2020
#5
If he is any thing like John Kelly, he is still proud of giving that coward his medal.
Blue_true
Sep 2020
#7
MontanaMama
(23,296 posts)1. He might feel like a sucker.
No veteran is a sucker imo. I cant imagine any member of the military supporting the MF before this...but now? No words.
EarnestPutz
(2,117 posts)2. At the time I thought the man would regret it. A normal President would have...
....thanked him, had him sit down and then offered to have him come back up and have the President pin it on him again. A normal human being, really.
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)4. If it were Joe Biden, he'd also give him a hug.
EarnestPutz
(2,117 posts)5. I had the same thought. With Joe it almost goes without saying. He will be...
....our hugger-in-chief for sure. Wont that be nice. Thanks.
Grokenstein
(5,721 posts)3. Hillary wasn't the only one right about Li'l Don-Don
From the linked 2016 article in the OP:
"The Republican nominee is unfit to serve as president," Obama said at a White House news conference with the Prime Minister of Singapore. "He keeps on proving it."
Obama himself described his feelings as unprecedented, recalling disagreements with previous GOP presidential nominees Sen. John McCain and Mitt Romney -- but never an outright sense they were unfit to serve.
"The notion that he would attack a Gold Star family that made such extraordinary sacrifices on behalf of our country, the fact that he doesn't appear to have basic knowledge of critical issues in Europe, the Middle East, in Asia, means that he's woefully unprepared to do this job," Obama said.
pwb
(11,252 posts)6. That was staged. IMO.
Purple Hearts are earned not given. That guy may not be a real vet or he got it for a scratch.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)7. If he is any thing like John Kelly, he is still proud of giving that coward his medal.
Trump questioned Kellys sons sacrifice to Kellys face and just put Kelly down, but Kelly remains silent. Trump has no reason to respect Kelly, and Kelly is showing why.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)8. I think that at the first safe opportunity of not being seen, Trump dumped the PH in the trash bin.