Trump on Benjamin Netanyahu: "He is a war hero because we work together. He's a war hero, I guess I am too"

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There aren't enough barfs for this comment by Trump!!


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Trump on Benjamin Netanyahu: “He is a war hero because we work together. He’s a war hero, I guess I am too”

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Russell Drew
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So, in Donald Trump's warped view, he and Benjamin Netanyahu are war heroes, but John McCain was not. Got it. Such a demented, narcissistic jerk.

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[Aviation Pro]

1. You're not a fucking hero, pedophile

Maybe a grinder, you fucking pedophile.

[BoRaGard]

2. G.O.P.'s 5-time draft-dodging Whiner

claims he's a "hero"

and that the real soldiers are "suckers and losers."

Sick republicon jerks.

[johnnyfins]

3. He is! Didnt you ever read about his heroics

at the battle of Epstein?

[Ars Longa]

22. And don't forget , STD's were his own personal Vietnam!!

[Irish_Dem]

4. He works with war criminals. Makes him a war criminal too.

[Emile]

5. I wonder what Newsom will say next.

[yellowcanine]

6. Cadet Bonespurs says what?

[tanyev]

11. Hey, that's Five Star General Bonespurs, Commander of French Fries.

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[no_hypocrisy]

7. Still pissing on John McCain.

Bone spurs
Genocide
Land-grabber
Tin Pot Dictator
Draft Dodger
and
Never was "captured" because he didn't go to war.

[thought crime]

19. And he surrendered to Putin, a long time ago.

[eShirl]

8. he is so disgusting

[TheBlackAdder]

9. Trump's as war hero -- in Russia.

[electric_blue68]

17. Oh, snap! Good one!

[Scrivener7]

10. How has every member of the armed forces not turned away from him?

What goes on in their heads?

[malaise]

12. Nice admission of complicity

That is all

[Rob H.]

13. They probably get along so well because they both prey on women and children,

just in different ways.

[GoodRaisin]

14. Everytime he opens his mouth stupid spills out.

[librechik]

15. I concur on barfs

[Ping Tung]

16. He's working with a war criminal. Does that qualify him as a war criminal?

[republianmushroom]

18. trumpy you also worked together with Epstein

so I'm guessing you are also a "sex offender who should be accused of serial sex trafficking of women and girls", as was Epstein.

[Paladin]

20. Even by trump's standards, that's hilariously pathetic.

But hope springs eternal. He's probably hoping the Nobel officials create a new prize category: for brain-dead, inarticulate, democracy-destroying, shitty interior decorating, likely pedophiles. Tha' winnah!!!

[Knaughty]

21. I actually almost barfed

NT

[LetMyPeopleVote]

24. Welcome to DU

[Knaughty]

25. Thanks

Too bad it is such a messed up topic.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

27. Welcome to DU

[LetMyPeopleVote]

23. MaddowBlog-The problem(s) with Trump declaring himself a 'war hero'

If Trump is looking for actual war heroes, I might refer him to some of the people whose service he denigrated both before and after taking office.

The problem(s) with Trump declaring himself a ‘war hero’
If Trump is looking for actual war heroes, I might refer him to some of the people whose service he denigrated both before and after taking office.https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/problems-trump-declaring-war-hero-rcna226096

— Philly Joe (@joehick58.bsky.social) 2025-08-20T21:13:37.821Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/problems-trump-declaring-war-hero-rcna226096

It’s against this backdrop that Trump came up with a new label for himself. Politico reported:

U.S. President Donald Trump called himself a ‘war hero’ on Tuesday for approving airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities. Calling into conservative host Mark Levin’s radio show, Trump said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was ‘a war hero ‘cause we worked together.’

“He’s a war hero. I guess I am, too,” Trump said. “Nobody cares. But I am, too. I mean, I sent those planes.”

Trump calls himself a war hero for his actions against Iran:

"He's a war hero. I guess I am too. Nobody cares, but I am too. I mean, I sent those planes."

— FactPost (@factpostnews.bsky.social) 2025-08-20T15:12:41.216Z

.....Let’s unpack this one because I think the larger issue is important.

First, while it’s true that Trump ordered a military strike, under any sensible definition of the phrase, a “war hero” refers to someone who acted heroically during a war. Giving the Pentagon a green light for a mission is important, but it does not a hero make.

Second, if Trump is looking for actual war heroes, I might refer him to some of the people whose service he denigrated both before and after taking office. (Although he repeatedly denied ever calling fallen American soldiers “losers” and “suckers,” his own onetime White House chief of staff, retired Gen. John Kelly, said he heard the president make the comments.)

Finally, if Trump wanted to be a war hero, he had an opportunity to serve during the war in Vietnam, but he instead sought and received five deferments — claiming he had “bone spurs.”

He nevertheless boasted to voters that he “felt” like he’d served in the military because his parents sent him to a military-themed boarding school as a teenager. He later claimed, in apparent seriousness, that his expensive prep school gave him “more training militarily than a lot of the guys that go into the military.”

[Deuxcents]

26. TSF is a lot of things but war hero, he is not.

In fact..not a hero at all. At All