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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumstrump: 'Soldiers M.I.A. performed poorly and deserved what they got'.
WaPo
A former senior administration official, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity to speak candidly, confirmed to The Washington Post that the president frequently made disparaging comments about veterans and soldiers missing in action, referring to them at times as losers.
In one account, the president told senior advisers that he didnt understand why the U.S. government placed such value on finding soldiers missing in action because they had performed poorly and gotten caught and deserved what they got, according to a person familiar with the discussion.
Trump believed people who served in the Vietnam War must be losers because they hadnt gotten out of it, according to a person familiar with the comments. Trump also complained bitterly to then-Chief of Staff John F. Kelly that he didnt understand why Kelly and others in the military treated McCain, who had been imprisoned and tortured during the Vietnam War, with such reverence. Isnt he kind of a loser? Trump asked, according to the person familiar with Trumps comments.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-said-us-soldiers-injured-and-killed-in-war-were-losers-magazine-reports/2020/09/03/6e1725cc-ee35-11ea-99a1-71343d03bc29_story.html
Obviously Kelly is a source.
Thekaspervote
(32,606 posts)denem
(11,045 posts)Cha
(295,929 posts)his birther gaslighting wife.
denem
(11,045 posts)He died last year from 'unusual, atypical' Alzheimers. He never thought about getting a deferment.
Cha
(295,929 posts)denem
(11,045 posts)fierywoman
(7,641 posts)about from Ms Stormy, heh-heh-heh... )
Cha
(295,929 posts)abject Failures on Everyone & thing Except where it really belongs. right squarely on his pee colored head.
Johnny2X2X
(18,745 posts)Thats the most disgusting thing hes ever said!
Blue Owl
(49,934 posts)Hey Donny -- how about you strap on some fatigues, march 10 miles through mud carrying a 40-pound rucksack, all while dodging enemy sniper fire, and get back to us you fat fucking pig.
denem
(11,045 posts)trump has a yellow streak down his back a mile wide.
Grokenstein
(5,707 posts)And will deserve everything they get?
Hint: Their leader is kind of a loser!
Skittles
(152,967 posts)WHY is no repuke willing to put country above party???
denem
(11,045 posts)Kelly is very old school. Scarborough also mentioned Jim Mattis. Mattis might be prepared to go public.
Cha
(295,929 posts)Marine Corp General John Kelly.
How did trump possibly think his big ugly mouth on the Military fallen was going to stay hidden forever?
JI7
(89,182 posts)Skittles
(152,967 posts)there's absolutely ZERO honor there
denem
(11,045 posts)what is said in the service is not repeated in public..
Skittles
(152,967 posts)this is just FUCKED UP
Hekate
(90,202 posts)Skittles
(152,967 posts)it is long past time for republicans to come clean about who Donald Fucking Trump REALLY is
Xolodno
(6,341 posts)Who or whom the source is, will have to hire....or hire more security....and the orange one will encourage the violence.
And we'll probably see a lot more anonymous stories as time goes on...
And lets not forget the biggest anonymous source of all, that brought down Nixon and lasted for decades, "Deep Throat".
Kelly was either the source or one who was able to confirm it. He has not just himself, but family to protect as well. And despite not being named, the orange one went on a tirade against him.
Cha
(295,929 posts)of that.. TY, Xolodno
Yes.
crickets
(25,896 posts)accuses someone else of performing poorly. He simply cannot grasp the meaning of service and sacrifice. Only a sociopathic moron sees the term MIA as a job performance description.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)And discussing it with former military in his staff like kelly
Trump is loser supreme now
NoRoadUntravelled
(2,626 posts)in the White House.
flotsam
(3,268 posts)up north 70-71....for those who know he was A Shau and Ripcord...a secret they don't tell about MIA's:when a large weapon explodes like really nearby (say a 122mm mortar) some people disappear in a pink cloud and become MIA's. There really is no question but there is also no body. Factually they may have leaped into a black hole and transferred their ass to Aruba but there is no proof either way. There were many large hostile pieces of ordinance fired. Tell the President that vaporized in many cases may be what they got...