"Old bone spurs" himself nasty about our fallen Vets
(Documented Trump quotes)
Here from CARDINAL AND PINE is a list of six times (out of many times noted) that Trump insulted veterans and active duty military members.
2015: He disparaged John McCain’s POW experience. During a 2015 appearance in Iowa, Trump criticized then-Arizona Sen. John McCain’s service in Vietnam, specifically calling out McCain’s time as a POW saying: “He’s not a war hero. He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.”
McCain died in 2018 after a battle with brain cancer. McCain said in 2017 that he never received an apology from Trump for his disparaging comments. McCain was famously critical of Trump prior to his death, calling out Trump for everything from praising Russian dictator Vladimir Putin to Trump’s alleged lewd and inappropriate behavior with and about women. And who can ever forget when McCain came on Senate chamber floor and gave his thumps down on the vote to kill the ACA (Obama-care) that Trump wanted to kill because Obama created and passed it.
2016: He publicly insulted a Gold Star family: Ahead of Trump’s 2016 election, the parents of a slain Muslim US soldier shared their criticism of the then-candidate during a speech at the DNC Khizr and Gahala Khan —Pakistani Americans whose son, Humayan, died during the Iraq war in 2004 — called out Trump for his public attacks on Muslims and implied that Trump had never read the Constitution. In a subsequent interview with ABC News, Trump suggested that Khizr Khan made the entire speech because his wife “wasn’t allowed” to speak, drawing on implications that all Muslim women are subservient to their spouses. In reality, the Khans said in a follow up interview, Gahala Khan chose to remain silent because speaking about her son’s death was too painful. Trump also told ABC News that Humayan Khan “would be alive today” if he’d been president, also suggesting that the U.S never would have entered a war with Iraq under his leadership. Trump’s comments drew widespread criticism from Gold Star families, the VFW, and even fellow Republicans, including Trump’s then running mate, Mike Pence, who said in a statement that “Army Captain Humayun Khan is an American hero and his family, like all Gold Star families, should be cherished by every American.” No public apology to Khizr and Gahala Khan was ever made by Trump, though he did later released a statement that called Humayan Khan “a hero” and doubled down on his plans to stop “radical Islamist terrorists” from entering the U.S.
2017: He expressed distaste for wounded veterans in an interaction with his then-chief of staff John Kelly, Trump reportedly requested that wounded veterans not be included in a 4th of July military parade. Trump’s alleged comments were detailed in a 2022 book by Peter Baker of the New York Times and Susan B. Glasser of the New Yorker entitled “The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021.” The then-president was reportedly inspired by a 2017 military parade he witnessed during a visit to France and requested that a similarly opulent parade be planned for the 4th of July in Washington, DC. The catch? Trump asked that wounded veterans be excluded from the parade, telling Kelly that France’s parade had featured vets with visible injuries or in wheelchairs saying: “Look, I don’t want any wounded guys in the parade. This doesn’t look good for me.” Kelly pushed back on Trump’s request and defended the heroic actions of many wounded veterans, only for Trump to repeat his desire to exclude them.
2018: He called WWI casualties “losers and suckers” during a visit to an American military cemetery in France. He referred to American soldiers killed in World War I as “losers and suckers.” Senior defense officials reported that Trump made the comments ahead of a canceled visit to Aisne-Marne American Military Cemetery outside Paris, stating that he didn’t want to visit the cemetery because it was “filled with losers.” Aisne-Marne is the final resting place for more then 2,000 American soldiers who died in WWI. Trump then reportedly doubled down on his offensive comments later during the same trip to France calling 1,800 U.S. Marines “suckers” for being killed during the battle of Belleau Wood in 1918. Administration officials and Trump himself vehemently denied the comments, though allies and former Trump White House Chief of Staff, General John Kelly, later corroborated the initial reports.
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My 2 Cents: That is a documented short list from Donald J. "Bone Spurs" Trump against Vets.
BTW: Trump paid the doctor to write up his bone spurs reason for him dodging the draft, and it worked. Proof proof from the MD's daughters and is reported on here from NEWSWEEK.
Trump is despicable as outlined above - all of witch he disputes but the record is clear.
He is plainly a horrible president, CINC to all the military, and he cannot duck or doge the facts. The record is clear. He is anti-Vet regardless of how he lies over and over to to cover up the insults and real truth outlined above at least for now.
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