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Who poses with a thumbs up in front of the grave of a fallen soldier? (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote Aug 2024 OP
Orange Jebus? I win prize? ... marble falls Aug 2024 #1
Trump posing by the grave of soldiers who died in Afghanistan in part because his buddy Vlad Botany Aug 2024 #2
...after Trump presided over the release of 5000 Taliban terrorists FalloutShelter Aug 2024 #4
And TFG set up the withdrawal of our Troops from Afghanistan to cause the most chaos and damage .. Botany Aug 2024 #9
YES and YES! FalloutShelter Aug 2024 #10
Biden's withdrawal was the largest and most successful air evacuation under combat conditions Botany Aug 2024 #18
Only a total fucking 100% self-absorbed idiot or cretin would do that. lark Aug 2024 #3
Like those "I did that!" stickers Magats posted on gas pumps, jls4561 Aug 2024 #5
Their enemy? nt sl8 Aug 2024 #6
When the hamberders catch up to him Jerry2144 Aug 2024 #7
A self-absorbed, shallow thinking, psychopathic narcissist who will destroy anyone/anything for his own best interests. AnotherMother4Peace Aug 2024 #8
Putin, Trump, Kim Jong-Un, Hitler, Trump, to name a few. nt AnotherMother4Peace Aug 2024 #11
I will never do a thumbs up ever again. He has turned it into a fascist symbol. CoopersDad Aug 2024 #12
I plan on doing it once - and at a gravesite to boot EYESORE 9001 Aug 2024 #16
The guy who shows up 3 1/2 years late to the Emile Aug 2024 #13
I suspect early on Trump was aware he was offensive..repulsive agingdem Aug 2024 #14
I cry at cemeteries. I can't visit battlegrounds without livetohike Aug 2024 #15
A ruskie ASSet signaling to pootin another mission to denegrate US Military heroes complete SheltieLover Aug 2024 #17
Major General Paul Eaton from Vote Vets if shocked and disgusted by TFG's stunt LetMyPeopleVote Aug 2024 #19
Just remember ... Valdosta Aug 2024 #20
A guy who buries an ex-wife on a golf course Captain Zero Aug 2024 #21
A Fucking Shit Eating Idiot. Cha Aug 2024 #22
I was wondering the same thing yesterday! Initech Aug 2024 #23
An idiot who doesn't know or care where Demobrat Aug 2024 #31
A fallen U.S. soldier? moondust Aug 2024 #24
His handler. usonian Aug 2024 #33
The traitor doesn't give a shit. dalton99a Aug 2024 #25
An orange turd. RandySF Aug 2024 #26
Assholes. RockRaven Aug 2024 #27
An insane orange felon claudette Aug 2024 #28
He sincerely does not know any better and since he is a narcissist sociopath, we cant expect him to. Eliot Rosewater Aug 2024 #29
A stupid person....and a lot of people that aren't as smart as he is. OAITW r.2.0 Aug 2024 #30
The photo at Arlington Cemetery shows "there's something broken in Donald Trump", says Sykes. LetMyPeopleVote Aug 2024 #32
Several things are wrong: no_hypocrisy Aug 2024 #34
ANSWER: Draft-dodging convicted republicon felons BoRaGard Aug 2024 #35

marble falls

(72,266 posts)
1. Orange Jebus? I win prize? ...
Thu Aug 29, 2024, 11:53 AM
Aug 2024

... who in the world would purposely wear the same freaking thing every day of his/her/their life? Maybe he's getting used to wearing a prison uniform.

Botany

(77,608 posts)
2. Trump posing by the grave of soldiers who died in Afghanistan in part because his buddy Vlad
Thu Aug 29, 2024, 11:56 AM
Aug 2024

….. was paying the Taliban 100 k per American killed is sickening. The man has no shame.

FalloutShelter

(14,543 posts)
4. ...after Trump presided over the release of 5000 Taliban terrorists
Thu Aug 29, 2024, 11:59 AM
Aug 2024

back into Afghanistan.

Botany

(77,608 posts)
9. And TFG set up the withdrawal of our Troops from Afghanistan to cause the most chaos and damage ..
Thu Aug 29, 2024, 12:11 PM
Aug 2024

…. such as not having enough forces to secure the perimeter of the Bagram Airport. Trump got
our troops killed with his actions. I might be wrong but I am sure that Russia and maybe the Taliban
too dictated the terms of the American withdrawal after Biden was President.

The mother fucker should die in prison. He is a to America.

FalloutShelter

(14,543 posts)
10. YES and YES!
Thu Aug 29, 2024, 12:14 PM
Aug 2024

And also- FUCK the main mainstream press for not hammering on this!
They are all in on the Biden fucked up the Afghan withdrawal LIE!

It's just making me crazy!

Botany

(77,608 posts)
18. Biden's withdrawal was the largest and most successful air evacuation under combat conditions
Thu Aug 29, 2024, 01:37 PM
Aug 2024

…. in history even with Trump’s deliberate rat fucking of the conditions. I remember the media
flipping on Biden making it all his fault in 2021.

To see that piece of garbage posing behind the headstone of a fallen G.I. really pisses me
off.

lark

(26,095 posts)
3. Only a total fucking 100% self-absorbed idiot or cretin would do that.
Thu Aug 29, 2024, 11:59 AM
Aug 2024

Only tcf is so low as to actually do this and even fight to do it!

jls4561

(3,218 posts)
5. Like those "I did that!" stickers Magats posted on gas pumps,
Thu Aug 29, 2024, 12:00 PM
Aug 2024

Someone should make a billboard with the Arlington picture with an insert of Drumph pointing his tiny fingers at a grave while saying “I did that!”.

Jerry2144

(3,291 posts)
7. When the hamberders catch up to him
Thu Aug 29, 2024, 12:03 PM
Aug 2024

I’ll be waiting in line to pose over his grave, smile with thumbs up for a photo, then empty my bladder. I’ll probably need hip waders to be able to walk up to the headstone sure to the depths of the mud/urine blend

AnotherMother4Peace

(5,166 posts)
8. A self-absorbed, shallow thinking, psychopathic narcissist who will destroy anyone/anything for his own best interests.
Thu Aug 29, 2024, 12:09 PM
Aug 2024

That's who poses with a thumbs up in front of the grave of a fallen soldier. The slobfather trump.

CoopersDad

(3,361 posts)
12. I will never do a thumbs up ever again. He has turned it into a fascist symbol.
Thu Aug 29, 2024, 12:17 PM
Aug 2024

Ruined it for all, yuck.

EYESORE 9001

(29,831 posts)
16. I plan on doing it once - and at a gravesite to boot
Thu Aug 29, 2024, 12:53 PM
Aug 2024

but they’ll probably bury the fucker in some undisclosed location 😡

agingdem

(8,934 posts)
14. I suspect early on Trump was aware he was offensive..repulsive
Thu Aug 29, 2024, 12:33 PM
Aug 2024

so he donned an invisible "mask of acceptable behavior" (his definition of acceptable behavior)...but Trump possess neither empathy nor a sense of propriety...consequently he will shove dignitaries at global summits...he will call a black man "my African American"...share top secret information with Russian emissaries in the Oval Office...demean Third World countries as "shit hole" countries ....publicly disparage our national security advisers while praising Putin, refer to our fallen soldiers as "losers and suckers"...however his "losers and suckers" remark has come back to bite him on his fat flatulent ass...hence the Arlington Cemetery photo op humiliation debacle ..the psychotic schmuck is without conscience and soul, incapable of grasping how truly loathsome he really is with or without a "mask"...

livetohike

(24,349 posts)
15. I cry at cemeteries. I can't visit battlegrounds without
Thu Aug 29, 2024, 12:39 PM
Aug 2024

crying. He’s inhuman and completely devoid of empathy. Who is the woman in the red dress that he convinced she give a thumbs up? Maybe this will be her Christmas card this year.

SheltieLover

(81,329 posts)
17. A ruskie ASSet signaling to pootin another mission to denegrate US Military heroes complete
Thu Aug 29, 2024, 01:02 PM
Aug 2024

Is that Natasha standing next to Boris & holding a baby?

LetMyPeopleVote

(180,839 posts)
19. Major General Paul Eaton from Vote Vets if shocked and disgusted by TFG's stunt
Thu Aug 29, 2024, 09:21 PM
Aug 2024

I just got this email from Major General Paul Eaton, U.S. Army, Ret.

Paul Eaton here, wanted to send a personal note about something that has left me shocked, disturbed, and absolutely disgusted.
Every year, my wife and I go to Arlington National Cemetery to pay our respects to the fallen. Some killed in action, some died of wounds, injuries, or illnesses related to service, some of natural causes at home. All served with honor.
Among them are my father and his co-pilot, shot down over Laos during the Vietnam War. They were missing in action for thirty years, but now they are at peace together in that solemn and dignified place where the very best of our nation rest.
I’ve stood with my dear friend, Karen Meredith, at the grave of her son, 1LT Ken Ballard, in Section 60 where the fallen from the Global War on Terror are buried.
These are powerful experiences for me, and they should be for everyone who goes to this hallowed ground.
To hear that Donald Trump descreated this place, that he took photographs and video among the graves of the fallen without their families' permission… That he mugged for the camera for political gain is absolutely disgusting to me. That an Arlington official attempting to enforce the law and defend the dignity of Arlington was assaulted, verbally and physically, by Trump’s staff so they could access Section 60… I cannot even begin to comprehend it.
I want to be absolutely clear: This is something I have never seen or heard of in my entire life. To my knowledge, something like this has never occurred. And someone who can do something like that has no place leading the men and women of our Armed Forces.
Donald Trump cannot become Commander in Chief again.
It is on us to make sure that does not happen. That is why I am proud to work with VoteVets, and it is why I am asking you to make a donation to support our work right now.

Initech

(108,987 posts)
23. I was wondering the same thing yesterday!
Thu Aug 29, 2024, 10:13 PM
Aug 2024

What kind of sick sociopath smiles and gives a thumbs up at a grave site? And also who at Fox News decided it was a good idea to use Arlington National Cemetery for a campaign prop?

Demobrat

(10,306 posts)
31. An idiot who doesn't know or care where
Fri Aug 30, 2024, 12:17 AM
Aug 2024

the photo op is or why. He puts his makeup on, gets in a car, arrives somewhere cameras are waiting, smiles, poses, done. A cemetery to him is the same as an airplane hangar.

Just a place to go and pose.

moondust

(21,315 posts)
24. A fallen U.S. soldier?
Thu Aug 29, 2024, 11:36 PM
Aug 2024

Hitler?
Mussolini?
Hirohito?
Saddam Hussein?
Osama bin Laden?
Bashar al-Assad?

RockRaven

(19,586 posts)
27. Assholes.
Thu Aug 29, 2024, 11:44 PM
Aug 2024

And that includes any friends or family of the decedants, not just the Orange Anus.

Eliot Rosewater

(34,287 posts)
29. He sincerely does not know any better and since he is a narcissist sociopath, we cant expect him to.
Thu Aug 29, 2024, 11:51 PM
Aug 2024

He is a rare sociopath narcissist in that he is also very stupid.

OAITW r.2.0

(32,376 posts)
30. A stupid person....and a lot of people that aren't as smart as he is.
Thu Aug 29, 2024, 11:54 PM
Aug 2024

Hey, I don't know this family....I just hope that they understand who was in government that set the conditions for their loved one's exposure to death.. Maybe that is crass, but I think they represent a lot of people in this country. They should have asked-

- why'd you agree to 5000 Talibani's to get released from prison? Were any of them involved in the attack that killed our loved one?
- why did you close 4 of the 5 operational airports for US use? Made that last airport an easy target....

no_hypocrisy

(55,137 posts)
34. Several things are wrong:
Fri Aug 30, 2024, 04:22 AM
Aug 2024

1. TSF with his ubiquitous "thumbs-up".
2. TSF gets the family of the fallen soldier to join him with a thumbs-up.
3. They're all smiling on a grave.
4. Who wears a red dress to a graveyard?
5. Not only is TSF violating the rules for Section 60, so is the family.
6. Hanging with TSF is more important than the sanctity of grieving.

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