For fuck sakes, why?? These are just awful people.

[bigtree]

Jon Cooper‏ @joncoopertweets
Trump ends program that pairs service dogs with veterans at Fort Belvoir and Walter Reed.

Link to tweet

[Pachamama]

1. Trump is an evil Fuck

End of message

What more can be said

[Botany]

2. I'm in agreement w/what Rachel was trying to hint at tonight.

Trump is a Russian agent who is trying to destroy America. Who on earth could be
against the love and healing between a dog and his human family?

[Initech]

33. Actually I'd add the Heritage Foundation to this.

Which would make their bosses the Koch Brothers Russian agents. No doubt they had a hand in the collusion against Hillary. Trump is really doing their evil deeds. This is sick.

[FM123]

3. Trumpy is a cold hearted snake!

[Glimmer of Hope]

4. Is this an Obama program?

Asshole.

[Control-Z]

8. That was my first thought. eom

[bluestarone]

36. me

to that's my first thought LOL

[world wide wally]

5. So, what do you think of that, Trump supporting veterans?

[Achilleaze]

38. They know the republican DraftDodger is pissing all over them

...and they are submissively letting him do it. Sad.

[Freethinker65]

6. WTF. Is he going to try to privatize it? Unbelievable

[Old Vet]

7. I guess this is Trumps way of saying happy veterans day......

[lpbk2713]

9. Support the troops my ass.

I hope anyone who voted for this asshole is proud of themselves.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

10. If the program was started during the Obama administration it has to go.

No matter what it is and no matter how much good it does. If Obama had set up a program that gives toys to poor children at Christmas it would be cut. If Obama had set up a way to provide free treatment for babies with life-threatening birth defects, that would have to go. What if he'd funded literacy programs so people could read? Nope. What if Obama's NIH had found a cure for cancer and was treating terminal cases for free? Nope, cut it out. If it has Obama's name on it or was set up during his term, it's gone.

[Chemisse]

28. Exactly. Trump is just that shallow and petty. n/t

[Blue_Tires]

31. +1

[CelticCrow]

32. When you have a simple minded president...

Sadly that is almost his entire political agenda.

1) Try and undo anything Obama did.
2) Figure out how to profit while in office.

[dalton99a]

11. Every day brings a new depravity

[SirBrockington]

12. Theres no difference between Democrats and rebublicans

Says Susan Surrandon

[Doreen]

13. I wonder how the veterans who voted for him are feeling at this time?

Yup, he is veterans bigly friend.

[Elwood P Dowd]

14. They have no clue any of this is happening

because most of them only watch Fox News. Or, if someone tells them they will just say its fake news.

[Doreen]

15. They will be screwed if they need a service dog.

However they will blame it on Obama.

[SunSeeker]

16. K & R for exposure.

[C Moon]

17. So what does he do, sift through programs and if they have ANY sense of humanity

he kills them?
What a god damned freak!!!!

[GallopingGhost]

18. He's a heartless, hateful SOB. n/t

[Rhiannon12866]

19. I just read an inspiring article in the paper about how a service dog had helped a local veteran

Getting this dog has turned his life around. WTF is wrong with these bastards and why do they hate veterans???

[syringis]

20. Hi Rhiannon

Among all disgusting moves, this one is remarkable !

This program is great on many sides (as would have claimed the scumbag but not for a matter as this one).

I visited the website and took a look at the financial section. I tried to know how much it costs, though it shouldn't be an issue since it serves an excellent cause.

I have read very quickly , I did not find a precise amount but if I understand well, the irs mention a total amount of +/- 3 million $ from variable sources. Never mind, even if all came from public money, it is truly peanuts (less then peanuts) regarding to a national budget !

3 little millions ?? Sarcastically, I would say it is less than zero...

What is the aim in cutting such program ? What benefit ?

I'm flabbergasted !

[Rhiannon12866]

22. I know, it makes no sense.

These wonderful dogs have turned around so many of the lives of veterans who are disabled and are suffering from PTSD. And it's a great life for these special dogs, too! Trump says he supports our vets, but then we know he's a lying bastard, and this is just one more below-the-belt blatant instance of it. The nearest I can figure is what has been said upthread - that this was a program supported by President Obama. He managed to do so many good things in eight years - despite constant Republican obstruction - and Trump is inexplicably determined to dismantle every good thing we have.

[susanna]

21. Good grief - I thought I was beyond surprise

at how low he can go.

Guess not.

[tikka]

23. Isn't Laura Trump, Jr's wife and trump campaign chair, promoting this type of program

It resulted in ethic complaints about her holding meetings with government officials while campaign chair.

[calimary]

24. Heartless cheap-ass selfish lying monster.

[Honeycombe8]

25. Money. They need to pull every dime they can from elsewhere, to offset the tax cut deficit.

Is this something that an independent organization can do, I wonder? So that it can continue?

Every time something like this happens, I wonder why the veterans as a group support Republicans. Don't think this will cause vets not to vote for Trump. I remember when Bush closed VA hospitals to save money (again, he had tax cuts coming)...so that vets in rural areas would lose healthcare unless they traveled long distances to get it from the nearest VA hospital. Did that tick vets off so that they voted Democratic? No. Some don't even know he did that, to this day.

It seems the way things are is: if it doesn't affect someone personally, he either doesn't care or doesn't appreciate the pain it causes.

[Guilded Lilly]

26. HE MUST BE REMOVED From Office.

[janterry]

27. There is an update to this story

In an email to WTOP Thursday evening, a spokesperson for Walter Reed National Military Medical Center said that a stop work order was issued so that medical officials could “restructure the contract to enhance oversight of patient care.”

Walter Reed apologized for the temporary halt in the popular service and planned to bring back an improved version of the program.

https://wtop.com/local/2017/11/popular-therapy-dog-program-walter-reed-contracted-halted-patient-care/slide/1/

[Chemisse]

29. That is good news.

Somebody is cleaning up after Trump, noting the optics of cutting this program in time for Veterans Day, something that wouldn't occur to bird-brain Trump.

[hvn_nbr_2]

30. Trump prefers "veterans" of bone-spur-itis. nt

[MrScorpio]

34. Trump is the pettiest mother fucker alive

FDT.

[Takket]

35. is their no bottom to the well of hatred he has for soldiers?

[Achilleaze]

37. republicans pissing on our US veterans. Again.

The republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief hates America's honorable veterans, our POWs and our Gold Star Families. He is a total republican.