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Updated: Oct 14, 2024
Donald trump has often loudly proclaimed his support for the military. He has often referred to
“My Generals” as if he personally owns the military like a Latin American despot. However, his
actual behavior has often been a different story. See also the military history of the trump
MONEY
With Donald Trump frequently any issue has money involved. In 2016 he dropped out of a
presidential debate and held a fundraiser for veterans. And kept a lot of the money for himself. He was force by the court to donate the money (1, 2) This kind of behavior was not only limited to funds for military veterans. He also had a famous case where he took money from a charity that his son set up for kids with cancer (3b). Eventually his abuse of charity funds got so bad that the Trump foundation was shut down (5).
PERSONAL VIEW OF THE MILITARY
On the Howard stern show trump claimed that avoiding sexually transmitted diseases from all
the girls was his personal Vietnam (6). That was his equivalent risk to the young Americans
fighting in the jungles of Vietnam. On another occasion , when challenged about being a draft
dodger, he stated that he built a lot of buildings and created a lot of jobs. He overlooked the
fact that he did that for his own profit. It was not any kind of sacrifice.
JOHN MCCAIN
John McCain was an American war hero. He was tortured after his plane was shot down in Vietnam ( 7 ). He had an opportunity for early release because his father was commander of
US forces in the Pacific. His early release was a propaganda gesture by the North
Vietnamese. He refused to leave before the other soldiers captured before him and was tortured more after that (8). He was a prisoner of War for 5 and a half years. Trump frequently insulted him. Trump said that he was not a hero because he was captured . Trump even mocked McCains injuries ( 9 ). He called McCain a loser at the family leadership summit in Ames, Iowa, on July 18, 2015 (11) McCain was a republican and he still supported trump for president until the Access Hollywood tape was released showing trump bragging about abusing women (10) . You would think that that would have been too much for most people. It was at that point there began doubts about the decency of the American public. Trump continued insulting McCain after his death. There are reports that he said “We’re not going to support that loser’s funeral,” and demanded to know why flags were being lowered to half-staff ( 11 ). And he complained about flying the white house flag at half mast for McCain ( 12 ) .
GOLD STAR FAMILIES
Trump caused a big uproar in 2016 by insulting gold star families that lost family members in the military (13,14,15). The Vietnam Vets of America organization condemned Trumps attacks on gold star families and join John McCain and President Obama in supporting gold star families (16). In 2020 Trump again caused a controversy by blaming gold star families for giving him the virus (17,18). In 2024 Trump is again insulting gold star families (19). Trump made a big show of getting a photoshoot with some gold star families at the Arlington cemetery (20, 20b). While individual visitors are allowed to take pictures, federal law bans videos or photographs for partisan, political, or fundraising purposes. “ANMC PAO reserves the right to deny the request if it gives the appearance of ANMC endorsing a particular organization, cause, movement “ “ ANMC PAO reserves the right to deny the request if it gives the appearance of ANMC endorsing a particular organization, cause, movement or political campaign”. In a typical response after breaking the law prohibiting political activity at the Arlington cemetery, , the Trump campaign manager lied about the incident and threatened to sue (21). Trumps staff knows that political activities at the Arlington cemetery are illegal. He is partly responsible for those soldiers who lost their lives ( link to the disaster in Afghanistan) . A written report was filed and the Army has responded to the incident (22,23) The Trump staffers who were getting physical at the Arlington cemetery have been identified. (24,25). Vice presidential candidate Vance responded accused the media of “acting like Donald Trump filmed a TV commercial at a gravesite”. That certainly looked like what he was doing. But now that the Army has filed a report about him pushing around the cemetery staff and reminding him that political activity is illegal at Arlington cemetery most likely the public wont be seeing that ad. If you look at the picture they have been circulating you can see trump giving the thumbs up so proud and happy to use the deaths of military heroes for political advantage ( 26 ) . It looks like a happy celebration. The family has forgotten about the family members they lost. Now they are happy to be part of the illegal political propaganda (26b). Politics does not get more disgusting than this.
THE GENERALS
Trump claimed that he would hire only the best people. But He ending up firing all of the military that he so proudly called “my Generals” . He later referred to them as dopes and babies (27) He once suggested to replace the generals with NASCAR drivers ( 27b). And all of his generals , except the traitor General Flynn , were critical of him.
THE SUCKERS AND LOSERS
The Atlantic magazine published an article that reported that Trump referred to soldiers that died in the military as losers and suckers (28,29 ) . After a firestorm of criticism trump had denied this. In fact he prepared a list of 25 people to say that it was not true (30) 11 of those people were not even in the same country at the time of the incident. Many of the others were paid sycophants. Some of Trumps staff have been caught in multiple lies before. It appears to be a job requirement. The person that confirmed the losers and suckers statement was his chief of staff General Kelly ( 31 ). He was responsible for planning trumps daily activities so he was the person closest to trump on that trip. General Kelly had previously lost a son in the military service.
THE MEDALS
A retired soldier gave his Purple Heart medal to Trump (32). Trump said that he always wanted a purple heart (33). Many people in the military thought that it is extremely offensive for a 5 time draft dodger to say that ( 33).
Trump Awarded the Medal of freedom to a donor that gave millions to his political campaign (34,35,36). He said that it is better than the military medal of honor because that is for people that are dead or shot full of holes. Most Military people think that it is disgraceful to compare the medal of honor for soldiers that died or were wounded in the military with a medal given to sports figures or given to political donors (37,38,39). The Veterans of Foreign Wars rebuked Trump for his disgraceful comments about the medal of honor (40).
Trump has disrespected the military his whole life ( 41) . Nobody like that should be working in the white house.
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