The pilot isn't himself. Therefore, he is not concerned.
this post was submitted on 04 Apr 2026
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I’m told Trump prefers pilots who don’t get captured.
If he so much as mutters that out loud, there will be an ‘accidental fire’ on every galley of every carrier the same day.
He's literally said that about POWs from Vietnam and WW2.
Why the fuck would the Mustard Mussolini be any different now?
Answered to the other same comment
He has said that in the past. When talking about McCain, who was a downed Navy pilot that got captured. Why would they care now?
Not just shot down & captured. He spent 5 1/2 years as a POW, enduring both torture & years of solitary confinement.
While a POW his father was named commander of all US forces in Vietnam. The Vietnamese offered to release him then as a propaganda tool, but he refused.
I’m sure President Bone-spurs would have jumped at such a chance to be released like that. Assuming he would have survived the solitary confinement & torture.
Because this is an active conflict he started, and his voters are on those carrier groups.
Anyway, he may have died, so this may end up being JD & Marco’s problem
I don't think you understand the mindset of soldiers once they graduate from the academy. They eat a shit sandwich and they know it, but they'll be the gordamn best shit eaters there are
You misunderstand. He's not panicking because he cares about any of them. He knows it makes him look bad, makes the military look inept and poorly run that he's commander in chief over, and he has no one left to blame. He hand picked everyone running this shit show. He's looking for an out, for himself, and is panicking because he can't see one.
Obviously he is not in enough stress yet
How long until he starts insulting the military?
Lol, no he ain't. He couldn't care less.
Full "blame everyone else because he can’t comprehend is beautiful plan having a single flaw" mode.
"In 2015, Donald Trump said of the late Senator John McCain—who spent over five years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam—that he was "not a war hero" and stated, "I like people who weren't captured". Trump maintained that a person is only considered a hero if they are not captured."
Yeah I'm guessing he's more likely in "golf mode" right now.
Fox News probably won't bother him with it until Sunday's briefing
I'm sure that behind closed doors, he's already called those pilots losers for getting shot or killed
I doubt to it ,Trump is the kind of monster that only care about pliots who don't get shot down. The one who do are "losers".
Maybe he had a panic attack and they thought it was a heart attack and that's why he's (hopefully) in the hospital.
I tought this was only going to last 3 days?
It's for a nu....nah, the ecomonony! We nice peez! The SNP must go up! But helium! Crude oil! We need that! Why did I start a stupid war? ! Oh yeah, the Epstein!..oh okay. We need boots on the ground and in space at the moon base!