Donald Trump Jr. Gets A Blunt Reminder As Latest Boast About His Dad Backfires

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Donald Trump Jr.’s latest boast about his dad did not go well.

Former President Donald Trump’s eldest son tweeted on Friday that his father, who was banned from the social media platform for inciting the U.S. Capitol riot, was “the first president in modern history” not to start a new war.

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Critics pounced on the post, bluntly reminding Trump Jr. of his father’s yearslong violent and divisive rhetoric, encouragement of the U.S. Capitol riot and his administration’s catastrophic handling of the coronavirus pandemic that has now killed more than 400,000 people nationwide.

“Who needs a new war when, as of this week, more Americans died from the coronavirus on your father’s watch, in less than 11 months, than died in *World War 2* over four years,” asked NBC journalist Mehdi Hasan.

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https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/donald-trump-jr-boast-dad-backfires-075008851.html

The Stupid is strong with this one.

[Chainfire]

1. He is wrong

His Father started a war, against the American people on 1/6. In true Trump fashion, he lost it in six hours.

[kristofarian]

33. trumpf

trumpfed himself!

got a LOT to look forward to
there junior trumpfy &
what will you
Destroy?

[paleotn]

45. Bing, Bing, Bing! We have a winnaa!!

[Laelth]

2. I actually DO give Trump credit for NOT starting a new foreign war.

That said, it must be remembered that Trump fomented an internal, violent, insurrection, instead, and that wipes out any credit he might deserve for not involving us in any new foreign entanglements.

Trump is the only President in our history to incite rebellion and encourage the overthrow of our government. For that reason alone, he shall be (he must be) forever condemned.

-Laelth

[EndlessWire]

9. He abandoned the Kurds

while diddling with Erdogan. He doesn't get any credit. He is still going to trial. Nice attempt to mitigate. Too little substance, however.

[AllyCat]

32. this

[PatrickforO]

38. Yeah, abandoning the Kurds after we promised to protect them from the Turks

was despicable, because the Turks basically drove out the Kurds from their homes, and are busy killing them, and in the meanwhile 11,000 ISIS prisoners the Kurds were guarding escaped.

So instead of starting a war, Trump made us substantially weaker in that region.

[JI7]

49. Same with Afghanistan where he also banned those who helped the US

from coming here which Biden has reversed.

[Chemisse]

24. I am also grateful he didn't start a foreign war.

I often wondered why he didn't. It's the only good thing I can say about the swamp of horrors that was his presidency and it's probably attributable to some pathology of his - insecurity? cowardice?

[Tiger8]

31. Yes. Trump loves other dictators.

Trump would never take military action against Russia, North Korea, or any other country where democracy was weak or non-existent.

There is a subtle (but major) distinction between the "peaceniks" who oppose any war based on humanitarian grounds, and others who side with the enemy. There were 2 basic factions that opposed WWII - the peaceniks and the American Nazis. Same stance, but very different reasons behind it.

[Sympthsical]

39. Reduced projection of American foreign power

As always with Trump, the question is: Cui bono? Who benefits?

And getting entangled in foreign affairs doesn't extend merely to war. He wanted to withdraw from NATO, etc. He got involved in trade wars.

I don't know how much influence someone like Putin did or did not have on Trump. But you can't say a shrinking of American global influence isn't high on his wish list.

[Chemisse]

48. He clearly acted in ways that reduced American influence and authority.

And it seems logical that he was doing the bidding of Putin, since everything seemed to be to Putin's benefit.

But Trump wanted to go after Iran. I wonder what stopped him (besides it being a stupid idea, which never stopped any of his other actions).

[JI7]

50. lol

[Beaverhausen]

3. What war did Obama start?

What war did Clinton start?

[GoCubsGo]

4. Or, Jimmy Carter?

I don't recall Gerald Ford starting any, either. Nor, did Nixon or JFK.

[TimeToGo]

16. Well

You could say JFK did and Nixon kind of did by expanding the Vietnam war westward.

But, even if -- Ford, Carter, and Obama did not.

The Trumps are idiots.

[wnylib]

19. Eisenhower put the first US military

advisors in Vietnam.

[TimeToGo]

41. Yes

But almost none. But, not really arguing -- my only point is that even Kennedy and Nixon are taken out of the equation -- his statement is still false.

[uponit7771]

7. +1

[Laelth]

10. Clinton involved us in conflicts in Somalia and the Balkans.

Ultimately, I am glad that he did, but it can not be said that Clinton DID NOT involve us in any new, foreign wars. He did.

-Laelth

[liberalgunwilltravel]

21. Not quite

It was one of George H.W. Bush's acts that got us involved in Somalia. But the Balkans were on his watch. Although it was necessary to stop the genocide, which the U.S. failed to do in Rwanda.

[spooky3]

30. I visited the Balkans a few years ago. Clinton is still viewed as a hero

By many.

[Beaverhausen]

53. Read what Jr. said. Start a new war

[karynnj]

15. From memory

President Obama did start a war to defeat ISIS, first building a 68 (I think) country coalition including countries in the region. Here Trump wants it both ways - he claims that HE led the effort to defeat ISIS, while his son obviously blames Obama for "starting it. In fact, the careful multinational plan that carefully tried to develop the basis of good governance had already made big strides and was largely followed - until Trump abandoned the Kurds at the end. This, in fact, might be the cause of a future resurgence that the multinational effort was trying to avoid.

He likely also would list Libya. Here, the US provided air support to defend the rebels who opposed Ghaddafi, allowing them to overthrow him. This was no more a war than the US providing aid to SA and UAE to fight in Yemen under Trump - so if we include one, we need to include all.

For Clinton, I imagine he counts US aided UN efforts in the former Yugoslavia. (Clinton brokered the Dayton Accord that ended a part of it.)

[Chemisse]

26. Who said they started wars?

That seems to be something that recent Republican presidents have done, although Trump saved his warmongering for an insurrection.

[Beaverhausen]

52. Well, Don Jr said it. Read the OP

[Chemisse]

55. Oh! I did read it but got caught up in all the responses and forgot what the OP said - LOL! n/t

[OnlinePoker]

28. Obama expanded the war into Syria.

He also authorized attacks in Libya against Qaddafi forces during the Arab spring.

[uponit7771]

5. Trump started a war between Americans and racist terrorist and he sided with the terrorist

[GoCubsGo]

6. I see Stank inherited his father's intelligence and knowledge of history.

Or, horrible lack thereof.

[sop]

8. Didn't Trump declare himself a "war time president" at his virus task force briefings last year?

Then he surrendered and we lost 400,000 Americans.

[EarnestPutz]

22. That is a wonderful characterization, "war time president who surrendered". We've got ...

...to remember that a use it.

[lame54]

11. I call bullshit...

He declared war on the legislative branch

[sandensea]

13. And what does he call the ATTEMPTED war on Iran last year

The fact that Iran - and our Pentagon - didn't allow it to escalate into full-blown war was no thanks to Cheetolini.

[lame54]

14. The Iranian Physicist assassination has Pompeo's name all over it

[sandensea]

29. And Bibi's

His dream, as you know, has always been to get us to fight his war with Iran for him.

Cheeto's defeat was a major setback for him in that regard - but it doesn't mean he'll stop trying.

[sandensea]

12. Ford, Carter, Clinton, and Obama started no new wars

I guess they didn't show up in Junior Mint's high school history books (the last time he's obviously looked at one).

[hibbing]

17. I hope he gets the help he needs n/t

[Chemisse]

27. You are kind. I hope he gets helped into a jail cell.

I don't think the best team of psychotherapists could make a dent in Trump's problems. Frankly, I really don't care.

[broiles]

18. Did Jimmy Carter start any wars?

[EarnestPutz]

25. Jimmy Carter, one of my personal heroes, was roundly criticized by congressional war hawks....

.....who wanted to bomb everyone "until the rubble bounced" and felt that his foreign policy, based as it was on human rights, was not "realpolitik" enough for their tastes. Henry Hyde comes to mind as another repub asshole who should burn in hell. Funny, because by today's standards, he wouldn't qualify as a true RWNJ.

[Laelth]

54. +1 n/t

-Laelth

[bucolic_frolic]

20. eh, what's a war when you can orchestrate your own INSURRECTION?

[SCantiGOP]

23. Carter was the last President

To have no offensive military action during his term.

[Rhiannon12866]

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[BumRushDaShow]

35. Except. Yemen.

(thanks to the unholy alliance with Saudi Arabia). And when Congress demanded we get out, he vetoed that -

Trump vetoes measure to end US involvement in Yemen war
Deb Riechmann, The Associated Press
April 16, 2019


WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Tuesday vetoed a resolution passed by Congress to end U.S. military assistance in Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen.

The veto — the second in Trump's presidency — was expected, and Congress lacks the votes to override it. But passing the never-before-used war powers resolution was viewed as a milestone for lawmakers, who have shown a renewed willingness to assert their war-making authority after letting it atrophy for decades under presidents from both parties.

"This resolution is an unnecessary, dangerous attempt to weaken my constitutional authorities, endangering the lives of American citizens and brave service members, both today and in the future," Trump wrote in explaining his veto.

Congress has grown uneasy with Trump's close relationship with Saudi Arabia as he tries to further isolate Iran, a regional rival.

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2019/04/17/trump-vetoes-measure-to-end-us-involvement-in-yemen-war/

A motley crew of lawmakers is gearing up for a fight over the defense budget.

By Tara Golshan Sep 10, 2019, 11:10am EDT


A motley crew of Congress’s most conservative and most progressive lawmakers is fighting to end US involvement in the war in Yemen — a move that would weaken President Donald Trump’s relationship with Saudi Arabia.Its battleground: the nation’s massive defense budget. As Congress gears up to pass its 2020 defense budget — which will likely amount to more than $730 billion in funding for the Pentagon and a couple other agencies’ national-security activities — a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers led by Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Mike Lee (R-UT) and Reps. Ro Khanna (D-CA) and Matt Gaetz (R-FL), is pushing to include a provision that would end US involvement in the Saudi-led war in Yemen.

The amendment “prohibits support to and participation in the Saudi-led coalitions military operations against the Houthis in Yemen.”If passed — pulling together the same coalition of 54 senators, including seven Republicans, and 248 House lawmakers — it would be a major rebuke of Trump’s foreign policy, which has used the US’s cozy relationship with Saudi Arabia to escalate tensions with Iran.

It wouldn’t be lawmakers’ first attempt to do so, but it could be the most effective: In April, Congress passed a historic War Powers Resolution directing Trump to remove troops involved in “hostilities” in Yemen, a Saudi-led war against the Iranian-backed Houthis, that’s killed more than 50,000 and left tens of millions in need of humanitarian aid. Trump vetoed it, committed to the US’s long-standing alliance with the Riyadh — not to mention his personal relationship with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (the same MBS who allegedly called for Saudi Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s killing).

The US was involved in the Saudi-led war before Trump took office — for four years, the United States has been providing the Saudi-led coalition with intelligence, arms, and ammunition, and, until late last year, fuel for their warplanes. (The planes that bombed a school bus, killing at least 40 children last August, did so with an American-made bomb.) But by rejecting congressional attempts to end that involvement, Trump has cemented American fingerprints on one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world: According to the most recent United Nations report, 80 percent of the Yemeni population — 24 million people — is in need of humanitarian assistance. A recent United Nations report found that the US, Britain, and France may be complicit in war crimes in Yemen.

https://www.vox.com/2019/9/10/20849004/trump-yemen-war-saudi-arabia-mbs-ndaa

[Cha]

36. Jr .. Stupid Sociopath like his

big daddy Treasonous Sadistic Monster.

[Cha]

37. Gawd Jr's Stupid.. stupid father started

the First Domestic Terrorist WAR

[sheshe2]

47. +1000

Who needs a foreign war when you can put notch's in your belt with a war on your own people...and then go golfing.

[ET Awful]

40. There's that trade war he started (and lost) n/t

[Chicago1980]

42. Trump did start a war...

It was just on critical thinking and intelligence.

[Cozmo]

43. It's so unfortunate...

Here's this grown man grasping at straws (heehee) to defend his daddy and doesn't pay attention to his grammar. DJTJ, your stupidity is showing.

[DesertRat]

44. I wish that people would ignore him on twitter

even though they make excellent points, they are giving him the attention that he and the rest of the grifter family craves.

[demigoddess]

46. no,drumpf just declared war on democracy, all democrats, and the Constitution!

The Stupid is strong with this one

[Demovictory9]

51. k&r

[Vivienne235729]

56. He's dumber than a doorknob. SMDH...