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Wed Sep 9, 2020, 11:51 AM Sep 2020

Trump's superior at the New York Military Academy says president's disdain for the troops predates

his White House run: ‘Heartless, obnoxious SOB’



Written by Alex Henderson September 9, 2020

President Donald Trump and his supporters have been vehemently denying the allegations in a bombshell article by The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg, who reported that according to his sources, Trump expressed disdain for Americans who serve in the military and insulting them as “suckers” and “losers.” But reporters for the Associated Press, the Washington Post and even Fox News have corroborated Goldberg’s reporting. And on Foreign Policy’s website, journalist Michael Hirsh reports that Trump, according to his sources, was disrespectful of the military long before he ran for president.

One of the sources interviewed for Hirsh’s article, which was published on September 8, was George M. White — who is now 74 and was Trump’s superior at the New York Military Academy (where Trump graduated in 1964). Discussing Goldberg’s reporting in The Atlantic, White told Hirsh, “No, those remarks absolutely didn’t surprise me. In my dealings with him, he was a heartless, obnoxious son of a bitch.”

According to Goldberg’s sources, Trump described the American World War I veterans buried at Aisne-Marne American Cemetery and Memorial in Northern France as “suckers.” And during a diplomatic visit to France, Trump commented, “Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.”

Hirsh stresses that Trump is “certainly not alone in questioning the wisdom of U.S. military involvement in Vietnam and Iraq” — and White, according to Hirsh, has no problem with Trump questioning whether or not the U.S. should have intervened militarily in those places. But it Trump’s disrespect for the military itself that White has a problem with.

https://www.alternet.org/2020/09/trumps-superior-at-the-new-york-military-academy-says-presidents-disdain-for-the-troops-predates-his-white-house-run-heartless-obnoxious-sob/

So in this captured picture shot he has a breadcrumb and he couldn't find one in France..............to save his orange hair confection.............

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