He's just not that into you.
Fifteen months later, he perpetuated a stigma when he remarked "When people come back from war and combat and they see things that maybe a lot of the folks in this room have seen many times over and you're strong and you can handle it, but a lot of people can't handle it." Yet, he did at the same time advocate improved mental health for veterans.
That same month, an interview with Howard Stern was unearthed in which Trump crowed "I’ve been so lucky in terms of that whole world, it is a dangerous world out there. It’s like Vietnam, sort of. It is my personal Vietnam. I feel like a great and very brave solider." But that was ancient history, nearly twenty years earlier.
Faced with rain, Trump on Saturday skipped a Veterans Day commemoration at Aisne Marne American Cemetery, where many American soldiers killed in World War I are buried. On Sunday, he "chose not to walk side-by-side with other world leaders at another event Sunday, choosing instead to take his motorcade down an empty Champs-Élysées to the Arc de Triomph, rather than showing unity with the other heads of state." Yet, a photo with other leaders of the Trans-Atlantic Alliance may have imperiled his job evaluation with President Putin, so he deserves some slack.
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Oh, it has been obvious for some time now. There
was that time in July, 2015 that Donald Trump claimed that John McCain is
"not a war hero. He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people
who weren’t captured.” However, maybe that was only a slam at John
McCain, provoked by the fear of a comparison between the Senator's war record
and his own history of five draft deferments.
Fifteen months later, he perpetuated a stigma when he remarked "When people come back from war and combat and they see things that maybe a lot of the folks in this room have seen many times over and you're strong and you can handle it, but a lot of people can't handle it." Yet, he did at the same time advocate improved mental health for veterans.
That same month, an interview with Howard Stern was unearthed in which Trump crowed "I’ve been so lucky in terms of that whole world, it is a dangerous world out there. It’s like Vietnam, sort of. It is my personal Vietnam. I feel like a great and very brave solider." But that was ancient history, nearly twenty years earlier.
Faced with rain, Trump on Saturday skipped a Veterans Day commemoration at Aisne Marne American Cemetery, where many American soldiers killed in World War I are buried. On Sunday, he "chose not to walk side-by-side with other world leaders at another event Sunday, choosing instead to take his motorcade down an empty Champs-Élysées to the Arc de Triomph, rather than showing unity with the other heads of state." Yet, a photo with other leaders of the Trans-Atlantic Alliance may have imperiled his job evaluation with President Putin, so he deserves some slack.
Now the President has decided to skip the Veterans Day
commemoration at Arlington National Cemetery. However, it is not only deceased
veterans who annoy him. He has tweeted
The Florida Election should be called in favor of Rick Scott and Ron DeSantis in that large numbers of new ballots showed up out of nowhere, and many ballots are missing or forged. An honest vote count is no longer possible-ballots massively infected. Must go with Election Night!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 12, 2018
Federal law permits voters who are overseas, many of them
soldiers, to submit ballots after election day. In Florida, those ballots are
not due until Friday. And Donald Trump wants them not to be counted.
President Trump believes many ballots from overseas are
illegitimate. He believes also that prisoners of war are not heroes, avoiding
sexually transmitted diseases is as courageous as fighting in foreign wars,
commemorating the American war dead is unnecessary in rain, and ballots from
soldiers are suspect.
If your name were Kushner, or you were an attractive
daughter of his, or were himself, he wouldn't be holding out a sign reading "I find you contemptible." But it's not, and he is.
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