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Retired Rear Admiral John Kirby on Tuesday appeared on CNN to unload on
President Donald Trumps self-aggrandizing Memorial Day tweet in which he insisted that dead American soldiers would have loved his presidency.
It deeply offended me, Kirby said of Trumps tweet. Im not a combat vet, but Ive known friends who have been killed in these wars over the last 17 years. I can assure you that they didnt go to fight and potentially give their lives so that the American economy could thrive. It was incredibly inappropriate for the commander-in-chief
to talk about Memorial Day in that fashion.
CNN analyst David Gregory said it was baffling that no one on Trumps staff told him that people would get offended if he made a day of remembrance to fallen soldiers a tribute to himself.
You have a president whos surrounded by people who are unable to say to him, No thats not how youre going to express yourself,' he said. Its so unfortunate that this instinct of self-aggrandizement in the wrong moment, no shame, no real compassion, comes through.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/05/watch-retired-admiral-unloads-trump-boasting-dead-troops-happy/
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)man ain't right in the head.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)the Trump,I love myself Reality TV Show. This Guy is PT Barnum on Roids.
The River
(2,615 posts)when I saw his tweet.
I picture tRump standing all alone in the middle of Arlington Cemetery
screaming "How do you like me now?" as an army of
ghosts drag him down to Hell.
Stuart G
(38,403 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)He is always insulting them in some way, or manipulating & using them to boost his own pathetic ego. If he pisses on our POWs or veterans again, then someone somewhere will fund the building of a massive, disgusting, unerect monument to remind future generations of the lowly morals and ethics of the ignoble republicans and their casino-hustling Draft-Dodger-in-Chief. Sick and shameful.