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Trump called US Marines killed in WWI battle ‘losers’, says report
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US President Donald Trump denies ever calling US Marines buried in France ‘losers’ and ‘suckers’, and brands the report by Atlantic magazine as ‘disgusting, grotesque, reprehensible lies’. – EPA pic, September 4, 2020 |
[kaytee notes: Chickenhawk (chicken hawk or chicken-hawk) is a political term used in the United States to describe a person who is a war hawk, yet actively avoids or avoided military service when of age]
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump referred to US Marines buried in a WWI cemetery in France as “losers” and “suckers” for getting killed in action, according to a report yesterday in the Atlantic magazine.
The report, penned by the magazine’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, said Trump had refused to visit the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris in 2018 because “he feared his hair would become disheveled in the rain”, although the official explanation offered by aides was that the helicopter due to take him there could not fly due to weather.
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Business Insider (Aus):
Donald Trump avoided the military draft 5 times, but it wasn't uncommon for young men from influential families to do so during the Vietnam War
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A young Donald Trump Classmates.com |
- President Donald Trump received military draft deferments five times – once for bad feet and four times for college.
- Thanks in part to the deferments, he did not serve in Vietnam.
- The president has received criticism for dodging the draft, including from members of Congress. Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth, a Purple Heart recipient, once called him “Cadet Bone Spurs.”
- Like Trump, many other young men from wealthy families found ways to avoid the draft.
A young Donald Trump was seemingly in good health when he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1968, as the United States was mired in one of the bloodiest years of the Vietnam War.
The 22-year-old – who was 6 feet 2 inches tall and an athlete – had already avoided the military draft four times in order to complete his college education.
But that spring, as he was set to graduate, he received a diagnosis that landed him a fifth draft deferment that would once again keep him out of Vietnam: bone spurs.
President Trump sat out the war and instead went on to join his father in business. The New York Times reported that the president, as a young man, said his “heel spurs,” which are protrusions caused by calcium buildup on the heel bone, made him unfit for service.
Heel spurs can be cured by stretching, orthotics, or surgery. The president said he never got surgery for the condition.
“Over a period of time, it healed up,” he said, according to the Times.
The diagnosis came two years after Trump had been declared available for service and passed a physical exam.
On Wednesday, The Times reported that a Queens podiatrist who rented office space from Fred Trump, the president’s father, might have given the president his diagnosis as a courtesy to his father.
Trump, however, wasn’t the only young man who managed to avoid being sent to Vietnam because he belonged to an influential family who could afford him a college education – or a favourable medical diagnosis.
Draft deferment wasn’t uncommon during the Vietnam era – but it frequently benefited a specific group of young men, particularly those who had the means to afford a college education or enough family influence to obtain a deferment.
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No 1 (Worst, Cowardly) Chickenhawk |
An unbiased and balanced report would have included Bill Clinton as well. But I don't see his name anywhere, so this was obviously a politicised screech.
ReplyDeleteDid Bill Clinton or for that matter, any President other than Trump, ever call US Marines buried in France ‘losers’ and ‘suckers’?
DeleteWho said that ? "Anonymous ?"
Deleteread lah above
DeleteRight on the dot, this TrumpAss Kisser came flying out to defend the Dumbo Donald to the hilt. There's no fool like an old fool.
DeleteIrrelevant since US allow female president candidate whom have zero military training nor experience.
ReplyDeleteAs far as elected or us candidates for president there is no written conditions regarding being in military service. It was a bogus condition created by selected American to ensure that only selected minority can be President. Yet Historically incorrect since there are more none military ex service President than Military President. Abraham Lincoln was not a Military man From the 27 till the 32 Franky D.R was not a Military man, then Bill Clinton then Obama now D.T. HILLARY Clinton is not a Military Women.
there is NO necessity to be a former military man or to have serve in the US military - the ISSUE is such people should NOT be so warlike with the blood of other people's children. The worst chickenhawk was Cheney who dodged the Vietnam draft 5 times yet as VP during the Bush Admin was the most hawk-like member of the Administration. During the US war with Afghanistan he had the brazen shameless nerve to exclaim "We must have the guts to finish off this war".
DeleteBerani hanya dari kedudukan selamat, berani dengan darah orang lain