Trump's team tries new talking points to explain his military bashing...

[writes3000]

“He Doesn’t Hate The Troops. He Just Sounds Like An Asshole.”

Daily Beast: “Trump aides, Republican operatives, and former and current friends of the president, several of them mounted a curious defense of Trump. Yes, they admitted, the commander in chief at times makes callous, tone-deaf comments about American military personnel behind closed doors. But it’s because he hates the wars they’re forced to fight, not the service members themselves.”

Said one senior administration official: “The president means no disrespect to our troops; it’s just that the way he speaks, he can sound like an asshole sometimes. That’s how he is when the cameras are off… It’s his style.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-defenders-he-doesnt-hate-the-troops-he-just-sounds-like-an-asshole

[The Magistrate]

1. It's Funny Because It's Stupid, Sir

[underpants]

8. I liked the Fireman spin better

Heard it yesterday on the local talk radio guys show - Trump isn’t disrespectful, he is in awe of them like how people are in awe of firemen who run into buildings that everyone else is running from.

I thought that made more sense. Either way they are admitting it.



I’d forgotten about this

During his first term in office, Trump has indeed managed to shambolically fumble his outreach to grieving families. In 2017, when the president spoke on the phone to the widow of Army Sgt. La David Johnson, who died in an operation in Niger, Trump reportedly said to her: “He knew what he signed up for, but I guess it still hurt.”

[writes3000]

16. He is vile. That anecdote is so disgusting.

[kentuck]

11. I guess they are OK with "Assholes"?

Which says a lot in itself, Sir.

[The Magistrate]

14. Birds Of A Feather, Sir

I strongly doubt anyone who isn't an asshole supports this cheap thug.

[Blue Owl]

2. The GOP 2020 Platform: "Vote for the guy who sounds like an asshole"

n/t

[mucifer]

6. the asshole thing somehow hypnotizes the deplorables so anything he says

they just drool over.

[Joinfortmill]

13. OMG! ROFL

[tanyev]

3. I like presidents who don't sound like assholes.

[Joinfortmill]

12. ROFL

[Paper Roses]

4. I don't usually use this language but: BS n/t

[Walleye]

5. It may be his style but it's not America's. Dude gotta go!

[BKDem]

7. "It's his style."

"You have to understand. He's a disgusting pig. He has no class or manners and he's as dumb as a bag of soup.That's why you love him. He's just like you."

[Joinfortmill]

10. Amen

[Joinfortmill]

9. That's it? Trump is toast.

[lpbk2713]

15. But it's alright if his buddy Putin puts bounties on their heads.

"Hey ... no problem."

[Make7]

17. "When the cameras are off?" He is an asshole when the cameras are on.

Perhaps when he's asleep, he's not – although he probably dreams asshole-ish dreams.

[hibbing]

18. He IS an asshole n/t

[robbob]

19. Oh! I get it!

He wasn’t saying the cemetery was full of “losers”, he meant they are “losers of their lives”. Now, let’s do “suckers”...

[world wide wally]

20. What is the difference between being an asshole and sounding like one?

[Docreed2003]

21. .....

[Mme. Defarge]

22. I like Presidents

who aren’t assholes.

[Midnight Writer]

23. Reminds me of this I heard about a co-worker. "He's not a racist. He hates everyone!"

[Grins]

24. Worst "Denial of the Year!"

“...it’s just that (is) the way he speaks, he can sound like an asshole sometimes. That’s how he is when the cameras are off.”

So, he actually said those things...?