Trump Blames SEALs Death On Military: They Lost Ryan

[karynnj]

38. Contrast this with John Kennedy taking responsibility for the Bay of Pigs fiasco

On 21 April, in a State Department press conference, President Kennedy said: "There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan ... Further statements, detailed discussions, are not to conceal responsibility because I'm the responsible officer of the Government ..."[160]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Pigs_Invasion#Kennedy.27s_operational_approval

This was a much larger, CIA planned action that Eisenhower had approved funding for developing the plan. Yet, decisions to go ahead with things are made by the President -- and when they go wrong, they need to take responsibility.

With Trump, he has even exaggerated what Obama did -- and he somehow seems to suggest that "his generals" are completely seperate from the generals in place on January 19!