'Trump Says He Will Not Cut Funding To 'Stars and Stripes' Newspaper'
'Trump says he will not cut funding to Stars and Stripes newspaper.' By Martin Pengelly, 2 hrs ago. The Guardian. 9/4/20.
Donald Trump tweeted on Friday that he “will not be cutting funding to Stars and Stripes”, a newspaper that has served US armed forces since 1861, despite a Pentagon memo obtained by USA Today saying the title would close by the end of the month. The United States of America will NOT be cutting funding to Stars and Stripes magazine under my watch,” Trump wrote. “It will continue to be a wonderful source of information to our Great Military!”
News that the venerable paper was in peril had landed as the White House reeled from a report in the Atlantic which said the president disparaged US marines killed in France in the first world war and made disrespectful remarks about both John McCain, a late political rival and Vietnam veteran, and wounded soldiers in general.
Trump rubbished that report, insisting: “I never called our great fallen soldiers anything other than HEROES”. In the case of McCain, observers pointed to a tweet from 2015 in which Trump called the senator and presidential nominee, who died in 2018, a “loser”. Trump also said the Atlantic, which was founded in 1857, was “dying, like most magazines”, and said its report had been refuted.
Stars and Stripes traces its origins to Bloomfield, Missouri, in November 1861, when troops under the future president Ulysses S Grant took over the printing press of a Confederate sympathiser. It has traditionally provided news free of government censorship, often critical of military and civilian commanders, and is delivered daily to troops around the world, even on frontlines.. According to USA Today, the Department of Defense ordered the publisher of Stars and Stripes to provide a plan to “dissolve” it by 15 September, including a “specific timeline for vacating government owned/leased space worldwide”..
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- A U.S. soldier reads 'Stars and Stripes' during a lull in combat in Korea, 1952.
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Hey, could not resist.
