'It's reunion porn': Military wives say Trump's SOTU stunt disrespected families of servicemen

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The State of the Union served as President Donald Trump's moment to grandstand his administration's achievements to Congress while also introducing guests he brought in from across the US.

Among them that evening was army spouse Amy Williams and her two children. Mr Trump introduced them to the room towards the end of his speech by commending her for carrying on while her husband, Sergeant Townsend Williams, was deployed in Afghanistan over the past seven months.

But then, in what people call typical Trump grandeur given his history in reality TV, he revealed Mrs Williams's husband had returned from deployment and was there that evening.

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Rebekah Sanderlin of Colorado Springs, Colorado, is a spouse of an active service member in the Army Special Forces, whom she did not name due to his position. Together, the couple have experienced an estimated 20 deployments — during their almost 17-year-long marriage. These reunions started out just between the two of them but then later included their three children: Bo, 15, Rudy, 11, and Lucy, seven.

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"There are a lot of us who refer to this as reunion porn because the show is for the benefit of the viewer, not the participant."

https://news.yahoo.com/reunion-porn-military-wives-trump-183454414.html

[BusyBeingBest]

1. These aren't real people. They're reality show participants, there to entertain us and serve

Donnie Dipshit's agenda. According to him, anyway.

[Girard442]

2. Correct me if I'm wrong, but couldn't they have been reunited earlier but for the SOTU stunt?

Didn't Trump delay the reunion so they could perform for him and his audience?

[kskiska]

3. Then there was the reunion that wasn't.

The confrontation set-up between the diplomat's wife who killed a man in a car accident by driving on the wrong side of the road in England. The intent was to bring out the killer from a hidden room so they could "make nice" instead of the killer traveling to England to face the charges. The aggrieved victim's mother refused to see her son's killer (a twin). She's adamant that the driver return to face the music.

[Hekate]

4. To Trump, all people are things, just there to perform for his gratification...

He is disgusting.

[gratuitous]

5. Took a while for this to come out, but I'm glad it did

Well said: "The show is for the benefit of the viewer, not the participant." I might amend it in this case that the show is for the benefit of the host, Trump.

I wonder if the media will give these military spouses some air time or column inches? Certainly they can find time and space to put the cranks and hacks of the Trump administration on to lie their asses off.