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kairos12

(12,852 posts)
Thu Sep 3, 2020, 07:40 PM Sep 2020

Chump called Marine Dead at Belleau Wood Suckers

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/09/trump-americans-who-died-at-war-are-losers-and-suckers/615997/

snip:
When President Donald Trump canceled a visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris in 2018, he blamed rain for the last-minute decision, saying that “the helicopter couldn’t fly” and that the Secret Service wouldn’t drive him there. Neither claim was true.

Trump rejected the idea of the visit because he feared his hair would become disheveled in the rain, and because he did not believe it important to honor American war dead, according to four people with firsthand knowledge of the discussion that day. In a conversation with senior staff members on the morning of the scheduled visit, Trump said, “Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.” In a separate conversation on the same trip, Trump referred to the more than 1,800 marines who lost their lives at Belleau Wood as “suckers” for getting killed.

This entire incident motivated me to visit the Wheat Field where the Devil Dogs fell. I did so last October. It was quite a sight.

President Bleach is a vile traitor.
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alwaysinasnit

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1. Describing anyone who made the ultimate sacrifice that way is vile and callous, but coming from
Thu Sep 3, 2020, 07:57 PM
Sep 2020

a draft-dodger, that is just depraved.

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