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LudwigPastorius

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43. Trump reportedly told Kelly he didn't want any injured veterans to be part of an Independence Day...
Mon Aug 8, 2022, 03:59 PM
Aug 2022

parade he was planning.

“Look, I don’t want any wounded guys in the parade,” Trump said. “This doesn’t look good for me.” He explained with distaste that at the Bastille Day parade there had been several formations of injured veterans, including wheelchair-bound soldiers who had lost limbs in battle.

Kelly could not believe what he was hearing. “Those are the heroes,” he told Trump. “In our society, there’s only one group of people who are more heroic than they are—and they are buried over in Arlington.” Kelly did not mention that his own son Robert, a lieutenant killed in action in Afghanistan, was among the dead interred there.

“I don’t want them,” Trump repeated. “It doesn’t look good for me.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/08/trump-book-hitler-milley-kelly/

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When Trump's GOP yearns for the "good old days", this is what they mean. tanyev Aug 2022 #1
Yeah, totally like the German generals. Girard442 Aug 2022 #2
Kick dalton99a Aug 2022 #3
Ivana Trump testified under oath that Shitler kept a copy of Hitler's speeches in his nightstand. OMGWTF Aug 2022 #45
Boosts the Confederacy, boosts the Nazis... just cut to the chase and boost ISIS too ck4829 Aug 2022 #4
The religious right is boosting ISIS-like rules for women--no right to make private medical decisions Lonestarblue Aug 2022 #16
Nazis consider Klansmen to be amateurs. They're not Q-WHITE enough. czarjak Aug 2022 #47
The slobfather makes sick fucks malaise Aug 2022 #5
While enjoying the Dark Brandon memes, that image of TFG as Rambo haunts me. BadgerMom Aug 2022 #31
Yep. Worse yet, though, is that millions of 'mercans Dark n Stormy Knight Aug 2022 #49
They are sicker malaise Aug 2022 #50
Thank whatever stars that we had honorable military leaders at the JCoS MarineCombatEngineer Aug 2022 #6
Would like to know the sources for this article. Very detailed Raven123 Aug 2022 #7
From the bottom of NYer article... babylonsister Aug 2022 #19
Will have to check it out Raven123 Aug 2022 #21
Taking a Sharpie to history again bucolic_frolic Aug 2022 #8
Wow, the New Yorker article has even worse details Farmer-Rick Aug 2022 #9
Yeah, well, that's how capitalism works. orthoclad Aug 2022 #48
Just like his father who was also a fan of Hitler. fightforfreedom Aug 2022 #10
Even when Kelley points out ACTUAL history, trump denies its true. oldsoftie Aug 2022 #11
Dubya thanks God every day for Trump taking that title. keithbvadu2 Aug 2022 #20
STEVEN MILLER sure was as close to a Nazi as this party had YoshidaYui Aug 2022 #12
Curious why Rebl2 Aug 2022 #15
HE seems like the type who would talk only if the YoshidaYui Aug 2022 #35
He should try bunker suicide IronLionZion Aug 2022 #13
US Generals refused to blindly follow America's Hitler BlueIdaho Aug 2022 #14
That has absolutely nothing to do with it, MarineCombatEngineer Aug 2022 #17
Thank you. sarge43 Aug 2022 #23
For me, that was quite insulting to the Military. MarineCombatEngineer Aug 2022 #25
well, a lot of people violated their oaths under this tyrant, so... mopinko Aug 2022 #39
So what? MarineCombatEngineer Aug 2022 #41
+1 denbot Aug 2022 #46
Far from it. They love their country. Nt Baked Potato Aug 2022 #32
How scary EnergizedLib Aug 2022 #18
NOW he tells us. Orange Buffoon Aug 2022 #22
Every year on 20 July Snackshack Aug 2022 #24
JHFC JustAnotherGen Aug 2022 #26
That would be General Rommel on the left ... he was in on trying to kill Hitler Botany Aug 2022 #27
From what I have read. Snackshack Aug 2022 #37
So glad I retired from the Air Force in 2011. djacq Aug 2022 #28
The New Yorker article is worth the read. herding cats Aug 2022 #29
Very interesting article, and frightening. Trump is scary. Shrike47 Aug 2022 #30
He's so GD stoopid it's scary, yet babylonsister Aug 2022 #34
More than likely Kelly and whoever else was in the room KS Toronado Aug 2022 #33
Long read, but totally worth it. MissMillie Aug 2022 #36
So, he likes to admire losers. geardaddy Aug 2022 #38
All those who called him Twitler should feel vindicated today Mr. Sparkle Aug 2022 #40
Oh yeah.. like FuckFace knows Cha Aug 2022 #42
Trump reportedly told Kelly he didn't want any injured veterans to be part of an Independence Day... LudwigPastorius Aug 2022 #43
Really highlights just how deplorable this miserable fuck truly is Blue Owl Aug 2022 #44
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