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Miles Archer

(21,579 posts)
Mon Dec 29, 2025, 08:29 AM 2 hrs ago

Trump's HEARTWARMING MESSAGE to families of U.S. Military members who died in the Ukraine / Russia war

Following a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at Mar-a-Lago on Sunday to discuss a peace deal to end the war, Trump was asked about his message to the families of the fallen Americans.

“The message is so obvious,” he replied. “What a shame. They died in a foreign country. And some are celebrated people, they’re very celebrated. But it’s so sad that a thing like that would happen.”

He then immediately moved on to the next question.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-79-sends-stunning-message-to-families-of-fallen-us-fighters/

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Trump's HEARTWARMING MESSAGE to families of U.S. Military members who died in the Ukraine / Russia war (Original Post) Miles Archer 2 hrs ago OP
USA soldiers are dying in Ukraine?................... Lovie777 2 hrs ago #1
No- these are not US soldiers KLK1972 28 min ago #4
He is always a bastard taxi 1 hr ago #2
You may remember this one, from 2017 Miles Archer 1 hr ago #3
He probably Rebl2 16 min ago #5
He always sounds like hes giving a book report Johonny 14 min ago #6

Lovie777

(21,607 posts)
1. USA soldiers are dying in Ukraine?...................
Mon Dec 29, 2025, 08:41 AM
2 hrs ago

the evilness and shame that Russia attacked an independent country because Russia wants it back. Killing, maiming, kidnapping innocent Ukrainians while destroying it's infrastructure and economy.

shithole does not give a shit about the truth.

KLK1972

(14 posts)
4. No- these are not US soldiers
Mon Dec 29, 2025, 10:28 AM
28 min ago

They are Americans who voluntarily went to Ukraine or Russia to fight in their war, some of whom are US military veterans.

taxi

(2,674 posts)
2. He is always a bastard
Mon Dec 29, 2025, 09:17 AM
1 hr ago

In responding to a question about his message to the families of those who died, he has to separate families that are celebrated from those that are not. For all who died it's a shame. For those from celebrated families it's also sad. Always a bastard.

Miles Archer

(21,579 posts)
3. You may remember this one, from 2017
Mon Dec 29, 2025, 09:20 AM
1 hr ago

Trump's biggest stumbling block is that he wants to sound intelligent and insightful, and of course, he's neither of those.

Trump says Frederick Douglass has ‘done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more’

Dylan Stableford, Reporter
Wed, February 1, 2017 at 11:57 AM EST

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-says-frederick-douglass-has-done-an-amazing-job-and-is-being-recognized-more-and-more-165725641.html

President Trump participated in what was supposed to be an “African-American History Month listening session” at the White House on Wednesday. But at least initially Trump did most of the talking.

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“You all read about Dr. Martin Luther King a week ago when somebody said I took the statue out of my office, and it turned out that it was fake news,” Trump said at the top of the meeting, which was attended by roughly 20 civil rights and religious leaders and black members of the Trump administration. “Fake news. The statue is cherished. It’s one of the favorite things in the — and we have some good ones. We have Lincoln. And we have Jefferson. And we have Dr. Martin Luther King. … But they said the statue, the bust of Dr. Martin Luther King, was taken out of the office. And it was never even touched.”

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The president then said he was proud of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, where visitors can learn about King and other historical black figures.

“Frederick Douglass is an example of somebody who’s done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more, I notice,” Trump said. Douglass was a 19th-century African-American abolitionist, writer and orator who died in 1895.
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