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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsU.S. TRUMP IS 'AFRAID' TO VISIT WAR ZONE COMBAT TROOPS BECAUSE 'PEOPLE WANT TO KILL HIM'
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-afraid-visit-war-zone-combat-people-want-kill-him-report-1224081?utm_source=newsweek&utm_medium=push_notification&utm_campaign=onesignal&fbclid=IwAR1gXINlMmicWHRHZE9KCD_jmB8CG4Rb2ZYfa98v3rhPviUUm7s9QGeN9jsresident Donald Trump has told aides and White House officials that he was afraid to visit U.S. troops in war zones, and didn't back the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan.
"He's never been interested in going," one unnamed former senior White House official told The Washington Post. "He's afraid of those situations. He's afraid people want to kill him."
"I think you will see that happen," Trump told Wallace. "There are things that are being planned. We don't want to talk about it because of security reasons and everything else."
Trump also expressed his regret at not having visited Arlington National Cemetery on Veterans Day, saying had been busy with phone calls.
"I should have done that. I was extremely busy on calls for the country. We did a lot of calling as you know," Trump said.
Former Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel in a recent CNN interview described Trump not visiting troops in a war zone as a "failure of an obligation.
"I think it's bigger than just a misstepI think it's a failure of an obligation, of a basic obligation of a commander in chief," Hagel said. "He's commander in chief of our forces, and not to go to a war zone where we have men and women dying, that's just wrong."
According to The Post, Trump will not be visiting troops over the Thanksgiving holiday, which he will spend at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
madaboutharry
(40,244 posts)That is all there is to say.
TheBlackAdder
(28,241 posts).
He's such a dick, I'm sure more than one kid at his military school said they would frag his ass in Vietnam.
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Farmer-Rick
(10,225 posts)He's a coward. Did I mention his 6 deferments that kept him out of the war because he's a coward.
RockRaven
(15,062 posts)Doesn't it? Or shouldn't it?
Oh, stupid me, one cannot expect rational behavior from Trump or Trump-humpers!
NCLefty
(3,678 posts)in front of him at a dinner. He spoke about it like he was disGUSTED by it and couldn't believe the soldiers that came over and carried him away were getting blood all over their uniforms.
Trump is the kind of bully that would get his friends to beat you up and then walk over and crush your fingers with his boot while lecturing you about how much he hurt you. And we made him POTUS. :/
Russia made him ROTUS!!!
(Resident of the United States)
We didnt have any skin in that game!
Electoral ripoff!
JHB
(37,163 posts)(Conman of the United States)
They gladly took Russia's help, but it was their people, the base they've been cultivating for decades, that elected him.
Russia didn't invent that, they just took the conservative programming and cloned a second set of controls.
underthematrix
(5,811 posts)Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Absolutely. Can you imagine that selfish, arrogant prick out there in a war zone? Hell, he'd be the first to go.
spanone
(135,919 posts)--what a load of horseshit.
James48
(4,444 posts)Cant be sure nowadays.
world wide wally
(21,758 posts)Patterson
(1,534 posts)CatMor
(6,212 posts)and that's pretty bad.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Of course, those audiences are hired for the job or heavily screened.
Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)marlakay
(11,527 posts)Feeding the homeless every thanksgiving time. They showed their kids what matters.
Withywindle
(9,988 posts)What a pathetic cowardly empty suit he is.
Baitball Blogger
(46,775 posts)That there was an increase in barricades and security police everywhere. He said it was said that it has come to this.
Wawannabe
(5,688 posts)If the shoe hits you, wear it! Fucker tRump! Worse than Bush and so he would get so many more shoes thrown at him!! Way more than Bush did. Deserves it too!
Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)Turns out he's a cowardly bully. Coward.
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)But I'm sure nothing has changed.
VOX
(22,976 posts)Now theres a prez whos going places. Hopefully to a destination with steel bars.
onethatcares
(16,204 posts)shrub sticking a plastic turkey up his ass, size xtra large no butterball.
GoCubsGo
(32,099 posts)is that a lot of the military personnel still love him anyway. I hope this serves as a wake-up call to them.
FM123
(10,054 posts)(He really is a pathetic coward, isn't he)
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,031 posts)gab13by13
(21,480 posts)he is so paranoid that someone is going to poison him, he feels there is less chance to be poisoned at fast food restaurants.
I guess because there is no polonium soup on the drive thru menu?
UTUSN
(70,778 posts)Blue Owl
(50,547 posts)as he is so fond of saying...
roamer65
(36,747 posts)You all can fill in the blank.