...And the neat part was when he used a dead guy's wife to make himself look good

[MrScorpio]

Didn't anyone point out that the guy was only dead because of Cheetolini's incompetence and obsessive need for personal aggrandizement?

As if he ever cared about those people. A botched raid and he blamed others, a heroic death and he seeks the credit.

Anyone who refuses to see what he's doing is willfully blind.

FDT.

[C_U_L8R]

1. That was a despicable stunt.

The people who serve our Military must be mortified.
Trump selfishly used that widow for cheap applause.

[Cha]

2. Shhhh.. the truth shall not be spoken..

the US m$m deem him "presidential" even tho he's the village sociopathic idiot.

[Else You Are Mad]

3. What was even worse was...

that they kept the camera on her for way too long.

[Bettie]

21. And she was totally alone

No one reached out to her, to give her the comfort of human contact, they were too busy blindly clapping for every sound that came out of Orange Hitler's mouth hole.

In the photos I've seen, she was clearly beyond distraught and none of them thought to put a hand on her shoulder or an arm around her. I suppose, her pain was just a plot point for their reality show.

[mtngirl47]

27. I thought the same thing

if she was beside Michelle Obama and Jill Biden she would have been hugged

[Bettie]

29. They would have been at

very least holding her hand the entire time and they would have offered her comfort.

Because they are human beings, not automatons whose only job is to stroke Agent Orange's ego.

Oh, and if Obama or Clinton were president, her husband would very likely not be dead or he wouldn't have been leveraged for applause.

[SharonAnn]

45. I was, and still am, totally heartbroken for her. Totally heartbroken.

As a widow, I absolutely will not judge whether or not she should be there. She should be wherever she wants to be.

And she deserves to be completely supported, not left standing alone. That hurt me more than anything.

And then, him evaluating the situation as if it were a ratings contest. How cruel, how cheap, how inappropriate.

[Bettie]

46. Yes, if she wanted to be there

then that was her decision. But they left her so alone; that creature and his family don't even know how to act like humans.

[oasis]

4. It'll take a little time before they "get it".

[Proud Liberal Dem]

5. You can only look at stuff like this

and marvel about how they would've reacted to Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, or anybody on the Democratic side had done 1/10th of what Trump has done while in office so far. There would probably be about 14 simultaneous investigations launched by Republicans over this with Hillary or Barack in office and I dare any Republicans to prove me wrong.

[MrScorpio]

7. Someone once said that being a straight, white man...

Is like playing a video game at the lowest possible setting.

Apparently being Cheetolini is like playing an entire game in cheat mode.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

11. I would agree

and he seems to running away with it.

[Bettie]

32. Yeah, anyone with a D after their name

having even the appearance of impropriety would have been under investigation...or with no appearance of impropriety...with nothing to see, just having that "D" after their name is enough for them to start investigations.

Dems would never have let anyone who was truly corrupt get so far in the process.

None of them can make any claim to patriotism or love of country ever again. They have proven, time and again, in this short time that they love power more than anything else.

Wow, my level of anger has only increased since the election...I hope others are also staying angry, because the only chance we have is to harness that anger and drive them out of office.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

35. I walk around every single day with constant mixed feelings of anger/sadness/sickness

in the pit of my stomach- for the people Trump stepped on to get where he is today (and how he and Republicans trashed Hillary) and the people that he and Trumpublicans are planning to (or already have) step on to achieve their "goals" for rolling back all or most of the positive gains this country experienced over the last 8 years.

[Achilleaze]

6. the republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief was grabbing 'stolen valor'

basically, trying to wrap his flabby republican-russian ass in the valor of a man he needlessly ordered to his death.

Tailors are at work on Pee45's new outfit (Ivanka's Spring fashions):

[3catwoman3]

20. Good gawd!

Who the hell is that? I've never seen anyone with medals on his pants.

[sarge43]

24. It's a photo shop of some North Korean general. n/t

[Plucketeer]

36. Are you sure?

There's probably a fat swatch of golden hair stuffed into that hat!

[sarge43]

39. Good point

I think I spotted a "Best White Collar Bunk" Award in that bling collection.

[3catwoman3]

42. Thanks for the explanation.

My husband is a 21 yr AF vet, and I was active duty for 4 and reserves for 8, so I've seen plenty of senior officers with with lots of medals and ribbons, and most of the harsher regimes around the planet seem to favor very gaudy uniforms, but this did seem waaaaaaaaaaaay over the top.

[Astroman]

8. considering his fathers position on his death

I'm surprised his wife accepted being there as a prop

[MrScorpio]

9. He's gaslighting the country

He gaslit her husband's death and now he's setting the stage for his own benefit.

This shit isn't normal. He's basically exploiting her vulnerability for himself.

[jehop61]

10. What bothered me the most

was Ivanka continuing to clap instead of reaching over and comforting the poor woman who was sobbing. Cold, aloof and totally expected. Don't know many people who wouldn't just hug her and provide a shoulder to cry on.

[Plucketeer]

37. Ivanka's owner

hadn't given her specific instructions to appear as tho she's anything more than a showpiece.

[logosoco]

12. At an early point of having the cameras on her, she looked like she wanted it to be over.

but he kept the applause going and even made a horrible comment basically saying all the applause was so wonderful.

I like your "FDT" at the end of your post. I may steal that as a new code word.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

14. The Minority President finds yet another way to make it be all about himself

tRump said he had set a record for applause.

[logosoco]

15. And that is scary as f**k.

If he sees he can get that much applause from just ONE....

[BumRushDaShow]

17. It reminded me of this

oft-used (now meme) from "Citizen Kane" (however the below scene provides the context for the applause at the conclusion) -

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. When the biggest applause of the night is for a dead man sent on a useless mission ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028727347

[LisaM]

16. Now there is a meme going around that the Dems refused to stand up for her.

People are buying it, too.

[heaven05]

28. boy-potus puppet

voters WANT TO BE FOOLED with lies and propaganda. Hell that's how Hitler, that other nazi, dragged germany into disaster and destruction. Get ready ameriKKKan boy potus voter, you'll probably be getting what YOU voted for real soon. Sad that so many others, who have critical thinking skills, WILL go down with you. GOD!!!!!!!! The hypocrisy stinks to high heaven.

[George II]

18. And that SEAL's father has criticized him for the bungled operation.

I was stunned that she was even there.

[heaven05]

26. didn't watch

but totally flabbergasted when reading about this hypocrisy this morning. I agree, why would Ms. Owen allow herself to be used for such propaganda reasons to make the boy-potus puppet of prezidents bannon and miller look "presidential"? Presidential my left foot, this front man puppet POS is a disaster waiting to endanger the whole goddamn world. PEOPLE WANT TO BE FOOLED. The media wetting themselves in groveling adoration of the coward-in-chief. The undercurrent of ameriKKKan hypocrisy has always been on display to the world...now it is undercurrent no more. It is the moving force behind an open hypocrisy.

I hope more of the culpability of this orange puppet in slaughtering this SEAL and the over a hundred babies, women and children comes out, but of course it won't. I saw the face of one general, I wondered immediately how close this whole SOU speech resembled the Nazi POS in any speech he made pre-war 1933 Germany. People want to be fooled...shame, shame, shame especially when the WAR starts, openly.

[George II]

31. I didn't watch it either, but all the stupid networks were hawking the speech at "8 O'Clock"....

....so around the time I thought it was over I switched to CNN sometime after 9 and he was talking about here. Took me a few seconds to realize what was going on and switched away.

[shawnivan110]

19. despicable stunt

[sarge43]

22. Stay klassie, Don.

My, didn't the Joint Chiefs look ready to give Schmuck the scrub brush and scouring powder treatment? Not a group you want to bad mouth.

[BeckyDem]

23. His father is not buying it. The soldiers wife, I feel bad for her.

I feel terrible she lost her husband, she attended the event and that's her right but to me she was manipulated by Trump.

Fallen SEAL's dad slams Trump
http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/26/politics/navy-seal-father-donald-trump/

[bigtree]

25. k&r

[Turbineguy]

30. Crass expolitation.

Trump's spécialité de la maison.

My Mother became a military widow at age 25. I am grateful she never had to go through that.

[malaise]

33. Good post but I don't think you stated the problem clearly enough

Groper Don the Con was looking for his Obama v Bin Laden raid moment. Not only did it flop big time, but it also cost the life of the Seal and several other innocent lives.

[avebury]

34. While I feel sorry for the widow for the death of her husband,

she was beyond foolish to have allowed Trump's people to make her a spectacle last night. Her FIL was smart enough to recognize what Trump was and to speak out against him. At some point it will sink into her what she allowed them to do to her and her grief will not be lessened. It is too bad that she didn't have enough courage to walk out on them while they kept the cameras on her way too long.

It is too bad that she didn't have a folded up flag in her purse that she could have unfurled. The flag could have said - TRUMP KILLED MY HUSBAND (or something like that).

[lunatica]

38. Her husband was just killed a month ago

As someone who has suffered the loss of my son I can tell you that she's in shocked grief and can barely function in this world right now. And it's obvious that she isn't anywhere near the stage of grief when anger happens. Her father in law has gone straight to that stage and no one can blame him.

But comments about how she allowed herself to be used are so out of line that they're downright cruel and offensive.

[PRETZEL]

48. Amen,

It isn't a question about why she was there.

She was invited knowing that President Trump was going to honor him in his speech.

He should have done that, let the crowd recognize him, then he should have moved on.

She wasn't the issue last nite.

[atreides1]

40. Van Jones said

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/video/van-jones-the-moment-trump-became-president/vi-AAnEVXm?ocid=spartanntp

That was the moment he became President of the United States. If, Van jones can be bought off with that little bit of theater...what hope is there left!!!

[mcar]

41. I had a visceral reaction to that

as the applause went on and on and that poor woman was so overcome. Republicans are soulless creeps.

[smirkymonkey]

43. That was so contemptible. I really could not believe anyone could

stoop that low.

[Orrex]

44. I was just discussing this on FB, in fact

Apparently Trump's chumps have been instructed to express outrage because Dems didn't stand or applaud sufficiently when Herr Trump referred to the put her on camera. At least, that's what I infer from the sheer number of nearly identical poutrage postings I've seen.

So I replied with: Everyone is ok with Herr Trump exploiting the widow of the man he killed? Imagine if Hillary had tried such an obvious stunt.


Strangely, they didn't answer...

[bravenak]

47. I'm still not over it

[Skittles]

49. I thought it was absolutely sickening