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Trump Demands Biden Remove Ad of Him Insulting Dead Troops (www.thedailybeast.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Trump Demands Biden Remove Ad of Him Calling Dead Soldiers ‘Suckers’ and ‘Losers’ - The former president said only a “psycho” or a “very stupid person” would’ve made such statements.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Trump rejected the idea of the visit because he feared his hair would become disheveled in the rain, and because he did not believe it important to honor American war dead, according to four people with firsthand knowledge of the discussion that day. In a conversation with senior staff members on the morning of the scheduled visit, Trump said, “Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.” In a separate conversation on the same trip, Trump referred to the more than 1,800 marines who lost their lives at Belleau Wood as “suckers” for getting killed.

source, The Atlantic, September 3rd 2020

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

This is pretty much how narcissists think in a nutshell. It's essentially a mental disability that makes them incapable of understanding why they would care about people, especially people who can't adore or praise them (i.e. dead people). Emotional one-way street.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

In a conversation with senior staff members on the morning of the scheduled visit, Trump said, “Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.”

Arlington was property seized from Robert E. Lee and chartered to house dead Union soldiers after the civil war.

So it sounds like it was filled with winners, at least for a little while.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

In fairness to Trump (there's a sentence I never thought I'd write...)

"“He said I stood over graves of soldiers and I said: ‘These people are suckers and losers,"

That's technically correct. He did not say those things in public.

Edit I watched the ad, it does not specify that Trump said these things in public, just that he said them which is true.

He said them privately to staff members.

Confirmed by Trump's former Chief of Staff, John Kelly:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/john-kelly-confirms-trump-privately-disparaged-us-service-members-vete-rcna118543

But my favorite quote out of all this is the one that barely gets mentioned:

https://www.axios.com/2023/10/02/trump-troops-fallen-soldiers-john-kelly

Trump saying at a 2017 Memorial Day event in Arlington National Cemetery: "I don't get it. What was in it for them?"

Trump is ENTIRELY transactional. The idea that good men would fight a war for their country purely because it's the right thing to do escapes him entirely.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"What was in it for them?"

Sounds like a perfectly reasonable question to me... far more reasonable than simply assuming the people who perpetrated the US's colonialist mass-murder campaigns in the third world was simply "good men" (supposedly) "doing the right thing."

Good job making Trump sound more rational than you, hero.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This take just baffles me.. you can disapprove of a war, and still respect people willing to put their life on the line for something they believe is right. Even in war, opposing sides have a long history of showing their enemy a certain amount of personal respect, even though they clearly disagree about something to the point of killing each other over it.

Your take is just condescending and unempathetic. You can respect someone for sacrificing themselves without agreeing with them about what they're sacrificing themselves for. Regardless, it shouldn't be hard to see how someone fighting to depose an infamously brutal dictator (Iraq) or a fundamentalist regime that stones women for wanting a divorce (Afghanistan) can believe that they are doing something good.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

This take just baffles me… you can disapprove of a war, and still respect people willing to put their life on the line for something they believe is right.

A Toast to the Troops... All the troops. Both Sides.

You can respect someone for sacrificing themselves without agreeing with them about what they’re sacrificing themselves for.

RIP to Sgt. Rufus "Baby Ears" McGuffin. He died doing what he loved. Ripping the ears of babies and putting them on a big necklace that he would wear around camp.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"All the troops, both sides" is half my point when pointing out that enemy combatants historically have often held respect for each other.

Yes, I respect a combatant fighting for something they believe in that's bigger than themselves, people not fighting for personal gain, but because they want to give someone else a better life. That's regardless of what side they're on- even if they're on the side I'm actively trying to kill.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

enemy combatants historically have often held respect for each other.

Torturing POWs to death as a form of respect

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

He died doing what he loved. Ripping the ears of babies and putting them on a big necklace that he would wear around camp.

Just another "All American Hero," eh?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Trump is ENTIRELY transactional. The idea that good men would fight a war for their country purely because it’s the right thing to do escapes him entirely.

In fairness, you only need a bunch of good men to fight a war purely because it's the right thing in order to counter the bad men fighting a war in order to do a bad thing.

Maybe if Trump's attitude had been more common in Berlin in the 1930s, or more common in the US during the 1960s or in Israel or Russia during the 2020s, we'd have skipped a few nightmarish atrocities without having a bunch of good men perish in the process.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You are cherry-picking and going off rails.

But to humor you, how far back do you want to go?

Because the U.S. was founded on atrocities committed against the people who already lived in North America.

And the U.S. funded operations to topple legitimate governments in Central America, a time in which a lot of good people died because of it.

So, don't paint the U.S. as "the good guys who should listen to Trump."

But again, this is entirely a red-herring.

The truth of the matter is, Trump is a piece of shit who doesn't respect the people who sacrifice their lives for his safety.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

So, don’t paint the U.S. as “the good guys who should listen to Trump.”

There are plenty of good people in the US who have resisted the Trumpian brand of ethnic nationalism and the capitalist death drive. And quite a few of them died for their country (or, at least, their friends and family and neighbors). But they're not the ones we celebrate on Memorial Day. Not officially, anyway.

The truth of the matter is, Trump is a piece of shit who doesn’t respect the people who sacrifice their lives for his safety.

Trump was never in any danger. His father was a fascist who idolized the Italian and German dictators running roughshod over Europe. If they'd somehow managed to marshal enough fossil fuel and methamphetamine to do a reverse D-Day and put Axis soldiers onto the Atlantic seaboard, the Trump family would have been the first in line to great them as liberators.

Why on earth would he be celebrating the Roosevelt Democrats and Eugene Debbs Socialists who were out firing on his ideological allies and business buddies on the other side of the Atlantic?

Trump wasn't going to pay homage to the allies of Mao Zedong and Joseph Stalin. You think he wants to bend the knee for a bunch of tankies?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Trump is compromised. He is with the tankies. Because the tankies own him.

Edit: downvoted by tankies.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

He is with the tankies.

We talking about the college leftists protesting Israel or the police riding around in military surplus?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

He got specific when attacking John McCain, "I like people who weren't captured."

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If Hillarys people wouldn't have pushed trump so hard, it would have been McCain vs Hillary, McCain would have easily won...

It's insane how much better shit would be today if Hillary wouldn't have gambled or cared about literally anything more than being the first woman president.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

McCain wasn't running in 2016.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

You're right.

I was thinking he did but I guess it was Jeb! And Ted Cruz as the Republican establishment picks in 2016.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The former president said only a “psycho” or a “very stupid person” would’ve made such statements.

I mean, he's right...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

next ad boom

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

Just run clips of him saying it, then clips of what he just said.

Hell, I've even got an idea for the third commercial:

https://youtu.be/Ag4P2xfmuZQ?si=UkSYTIDp0tE_GnuL&t=66