Trump once elected will be a one term president...a lame duck, as they say
Atlantic , how will he manage around that
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Atlantic , how will he manage around that
Semi-literate twice impeached one term president , who asked of deceased American soldiers ''What was in it for them''?
saluting a North Korean general, while other N/Koreans laugh at him.
I went and looked all over for evidence that Trump ever said that. Do you have it? Because all I find is "reportedly" and "alledgedly". Which means, of course, that its a made up narrative. And we all know that you'd never push a made up narrative, Spike. Because you're really smart and honest.
But hey, if you've got some actual link, I'd love to be corrected.
Trump did call fallen soldiers "losers," his former chief of staff says
Former President Trump didn't want to visit a cemetery near Paris for Americans who fought and died in World War I because it was filled with "suckers" and "losers," John Kelly, his longest-serving chief of staff, said in a statement to CNN on Monday.
Why it matters: In the statement, Kelly supported this and several other instances of Trump disparaging service members that were reported by The Atlantic in 2020 and vehemently denied at the time by the Republican 2024 presidential front-runner.
Of note: Fox News reporter Jennifer Griffin previously confirmed parts of The Atlantic's story, including his refusal to visit the Aisne-Marne Cemetery in France.
The big picture: Other instances in the statement from Kelly, whose Marine son, Robert Kelly, was killed in Afghanistan in 2010, that appeared to confirm the report were:
Former President Trump didn't want to visit a cemetery near Paris for Americans who fought and died in World War I because it was filled with "suckers" and "losers," John Kelly, his longest-serving chief of staff, said in a statement to CNN on Monday.
Why it matters: In the statement, Kelly supported this and several other instances of Trump disparaging service members that were reported by The Atlantic in 2020 and vehemently denied at the time by the Republican 2024 presidential front-runner.
Of note: Fox News reporter Jennifer Griffin previously confirmed parts of The Atlantic's story, including his refusal to visit the Aisne-Marne Cemetery in France.
The big picture: Other instances in the statement from Kelly, whose Marine son, Robert Kelly, was killed in Afghanistan in 2010, that appeared to confirm the report were:
- Trump saying at a 2017 Memorial Day event in Arlington National Cemetery: "I don't get it. What was in it for them?"
- Kelly said Trump did not want to include military amputees at a White House military event in 2018 because it would make spectator's uncomfortable, and added that Trump had said their presence "doesn't look good for me."
- Kelly also noted that Trump in 2016 publicly belittled the parents of Humayun Khan, an Army captain and Gold Star recipient who was killed in Iraq in 2004, after they criticized him for his anti-Muslim rhetoric.
- And he condemned Trump for accusing retiring Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Gen. Mark Milley last month of treason and suggesting that the punishment for such an act would have once been death.
- "A person that has no idea what America stands for and has no idea what America is all about. A person who cavalierly suggests that a selfless warrior who has served his country for 40 years in peacetime and war should lose his life for treason — in expectation that someone will take action," he continued, referring to Trump's statements on Milley.
- "A person who admires autocrats and murderous dictators. A person that has nothing but contempt for our democratic institutions, our Constitution, and the rule of law," he added.
- "There is nothing more that can be said. God help us."
Trump told slain soldier's widow that he "knew what he was getting into," Congresswoman says
President Trump told the widow of one of the soldiers killed in Niger that he "knew what he was getting into," said U.S. Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Miami), who said she was in the car where the phone call was received.
Myeshia Johnson was on her way to the airport to greet the remains of her husband, Army Sgt. La David Johnson, when she received the call from the commander-in-chief, CBS Miami reports.
"David was a young man from our community who gave his life for our country," Wilson told CBS Miami. "He's a hero. I was in the car when President Trump called. He never said the word hero. He said to the wife, 'Well, I guess he knew what he was getting into.' How insensitive can you be?"
The slain soldier's mother, Cowanda Jones-Johnson, stood by the congresswoman's account.
"President Trump did disrespect my son and my daughter and also me and my husband," she told the Post.
A White House official did not dispute Wilson's characterization of the phone call. The White House official told CBS News Mr. Trump's conversations with "the families of American heroes who have made the ultimate sacrifice are private."
But Mr. Trump denies the account. On Wednesday morning, he took to Twitter to deny Wilson's assertions:
President Trump told the widow of one of the soldiers killed in Niger that he "knew what he was getting into," said U.S. Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Miami), who said she was in the car where the phone call was received.
Myeshia Johnson was on her way to the airport to greet the remains of her husband, Army Sgt. La David Johnson, when she received the call from the commander-in-chief, CBS Miami reports.
"David was a young man from our community who gave his life for our country," Wilson told CBS Miami. "He's a hero. I was in the car when President Trump called. He never said the word hero. He said to the wife, 'Well, I guess he knew what he was getting into.' How insensitive can you be?"
The slain soldier's mother, Cowanda Jones-Johnson, stood by the congresswoman's account.
"President Trump did disrespect my son and my daughter and also me and my husband," she told the Post.
A White House official did not dispute Wilson's characterization of the phone call. The White House official told CBS News Mr. Trump's conversations with "the families of American heroes who have made the ultimate sacrifice are private."
But Mr. Trump denies the account. On Wednesday morning, he took to Twitter to deny Wilson's assertions:
Trump called American war dead ‘suckers’ and ‘losers', report claims
Donald Trump canceled a visit to pay respects at an American military cemetery outside Paris in 2018 because he thought the dead soldiers were “losers” and “suckers” and he did not want the rain to mess up his hair, according to an explosive new report.
Trump avoided service in Vietnam through a diagnosis of bone spurs by a late doctor whose daughters told the New York Times that the diagnosis was granted as a favor to Trump’s father, Fred Trump, who was the doctor’s landlord.
And Trump clashed publicly with the late senator John McCain, a navy pilot who was taken prisoner of war and tortured in a Vietnamese prison, where he was held for more than five years. Trump was enraged that McCain criticized him publicly and voted down a Republican effort to overturn Barack Obama’s health care law.
“He was a war hero because he was captured,” Trump said during his presidential run. “I like people who weren’t captured.”
“He lost and let us down,” Trump added. “I’ve never liked him as much after that. I don’t like losers.”
That disdain escalated to fury after McCain’s death in 2018. “We’re not going to support that loser’s funeral,” Trump said, according to the Atlantic report.
When Trump saw flags lowered to half-staff, he reportedly said: “What the fuck are we doing that for? Guy was a fucking loser.”
But Trump tweeted news coverage in 2015 of his calling McCain a “loser”. Trump also referred to former president George HW Bush as a “loser” for being shot down by the Japanese as a navy pilot in the second world war, the Atlantic reported.
Former members of Trump’s sphere went public on Friday to say that his denials were a lie.
Miles Taylor, a former chief of staff for two Trump department of homeland security (DHS) secretaries, tweeted: “Mr President, this is not true. You were angry that DHS notified federal buildings to lower the flags for Senator McCain. I would know because your staff called and told me.”
Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, said that Trump had faked bone spurs to avoid military service in Vietnam.
A defence official also confirmed to the AP reporting in the Atlantic that Trump on Memorial Day 2017 had gone with his chief of staff, John Kelly, to visit the Arlington cemetery gravesite of Kelly’s son, Robert, who was killed in 2010 in Afghanistan, and said to Kelly: “I don’t get it. What was in it for them?”
“The Atlantic article is accurate,” Cohen tweeted. “I testified, Trump claimed it was because of a bone spur. When I asked for medical records, he gave me none and said there was no surgery. He finished with: ‘You think I’m stupid, I wasn’t going to Vietnam’.”
Donald Trump canceled a visit to pay respects at an American military cemetery outside Paris in 2018 because he thought the dead soldiers were “losers” and “suckers” and he did not want the rain to mess up his hair, according to an explosive new report.
Trump avoided service in Vietnam through a diagnosis of bone spurs by a late doctor whose daughters told the New York Times that the diagnosis was granted as a favor to Trump’s father, Fred Trump, who was the doctor’s landlord.
And Trump clashed publicly with the late senator John McCain, a navy pilot who was taken prisoner of war and tortured in a Vietnamese prison, where he was held for more than five years. Trump was enraged that McCain criticized him publicly and voted down a Republican effort to overturn Barack Obama’s health care law.
“He was a war hero because he was captured,” Trump said during his presidential run. “I like people who weren’t captured.”
“He lost and let us down,” Trump added. “I’ve never liked him as much after that. I don’t like losers.”
That disdain escalated to fury after McCain’s death in 2018. “We’re not going to support that loser’s funeral,” Trump said, according to the Atlantic report.
When Trump saw flags lowered to half-staff, he reportedly said: “What the fuck are we doing that for? Guy was a fucking loser.”
But Trump tweeted news coverage in 2015 of his calling McCain a “loser”. Trump also referred to former president George HW Bush as a “loser” for being shot down by the Japanese as a navy pilot in the second world war, the Atlantic reported.
Former members of Trump’s sphere went public on Friday to say that his denials were a lie.
Miles Taylor, a former chief of staff for two Trump department of homeland security (DHS) secretaries, tweeted: “Mr President, this is not true. You were angry that DHS notified federal buildings to lower the flags for Senator McCain. I would know because your staff called and told me.”
Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, said that Trump had faked bone spurs to avoid military service in Vietnam.
A defence official also confirmed to the AP reporting in the Atlantic that Trump on Memorial Day 2017 had gone with his chief of staff, John Kelly, to visit the Arlington cemetery gravesite of Kelly’s son, Robert, who was killed in 2010 in Afghanistan, and said to Kelly: “I don’t get it. What was in it for them?”
“The Atlantic article is accurate,” Cohen tweeted. “I testified, Trump claimed it was because of a bone spur. When I asked for medical records, he gave me none and said there was no surgery. He finished with: ‘You think I’m stupid, I wasn’t going to Vietnam’.”
FALSETrump called American war dead ‘suckers’ and ‘losers', report claims
Donald Trump canceled a visit to pay respects at an American military cemetery outside Paris in 2018 because he thought the dead soldiers were “losers” and “suckers” and he did not want the rain to mess up his hair, according to an explosive new report.
Trump avoided service in Vietnam through a diagnosis of bone spurs by a late doctor whose daughters told the New York Times that the diagnosis was granted as a favor to Trump’s father, Fred Trump, who was the doctor’s landlord.
And Trump clashed publicly with the late senator John McCain, a navy pilot who was taken prisoner of war and tortured in a Vietnamese prison, where he was held for more than five years. Trump was enraged that McCain criticized him publicly and voted down a Republican effort to overturn Barack Obama’s health care law.
“He was a war hero because he was captured,” Trump said during his presidential run. “I like people who weren’t captured.”
“He lost and let us down,” Trump added. “I’ve never liked him as much after that. I don’t like losers.”
That disdain escalated to fury after McCain’s death in 2018. “We’re not going to support that loser’s funeral,” Trump said, according to the Atlantic report.
When Trump saw flags lowered to half-staff, he reportedly said: “What the fuck are we doing that for? Guy was a fucking loser.”
But Trump tweeted news coverage in 2015 of his calling McCain a “loser”. Trump also referred to former president George HW Bush as a “loser” for being shot down by the Japanese as a navy pilot in the second world war, the Atlantic reported.
Former members of Trump’s sphere went public on Friday to say that his denials were a lie.
Miles Taylor, a former chief of staff for two Trump department of homeland security (DHS) secretaries, tweeted: “Mr President, this is not true. You were angry that DHS notified federal buildings to lower the flags for Senator McCain. I would know because your staff called and told me.”
Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, said that Trump had faked bone spurs to avoid military service in Vietnam.
A defence official also confirmed to the AP reporting in the Atlantic that Trump on Memorial Day 2017 had gone with his chief of staff, John Kelly, to visit the Arlington cemetery gravesite of Kelly’s son, Robert, who was killed in 2010 in Afghanistan, and said to Kelly: “I don’t get it. What was in it for them?”
“The Atlantic article is accurate,” Cohen tweeted. “I testified, Trump claimed it was because of a bone spur. When I asked for medical records, he gave me none and said there was no surgery. He finished with: ‘You think I’m stupid, I wasn’t going to Vietnam’.”
