Before there were "Losers" and "Suckers" there were "Dopes" and Babies"

[brooklynite]

'Dopes and Babies' Fighting 'Loser War': Trump Reportedly Berated Military Top Brass

The commander in chief lashed out at some of the country's most senior military officers and leaders just months into his presidency, telling them Afghanistan was a "loser war" and calling them "a bunch of dopes and babies," according to a new book by a pair of Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters.

Some of President Donald Trump's senior advisers, including former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, planned a July 2017 Pentagon meeting with the commander in chief to explain the importance of preserving key alliances and troops' presence around the world.

But Trump grew outraged during the meeting, according to never-before-reported details published Friday in an excerpt of "A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America." The book, by Washington Post reporters Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker, will be released Tuesday.

Trump, according to the book, began referring to the Afghanistan War as a "loser war" and telling the Joint Chiefs and others in the room they "don't know how to win anymore."

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/01/17/dopes-and-babies-fighting-loser-war-trump-reportedly-berated-military-top-brass.html

"Loser War"...why does that sound familiar?

[mr_lebowski]

1. Hope that gets brought up in the media again, book is from January, 2020 and the public

should be reminded.

[llashram]

2. Interesting. All this time

and now he is just being revealed as the loser, liar, coward, traitor that he is.

[Hekate]

4. The book came out in January of this year, & a lot of things have been going on...

Nothing in there has been exactly hushed up in the media, but Trump keeps everyone & everything around him in a state of perpetual chaos — so only people as dogged as Rachel and these two can keep up.

[fierywoman]

3. I haven't heard the word "dope" used (to describe someone, not to describe something) since

I was a kid in the 1950's in Nassau County, L.I.

[Hekate]

5. It's age-appropriate for Trump, but I guess most of us have moved on in our slang