Trump Demands Biden Remove Ad of Him Calling Dead Soldiers ‘Suckers’ and ‘Losers’ - The former president said only a “psycho” or a “very stupid person” would’ve made such statements.

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[–] 296 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Convicted felon Donald Trump approaches self awareness and quickly sidesteps.

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    [–] 275 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The former president said only a “psycho” or a “very stupid person” would’ve made such statements.

    I mean, he's right...

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    [–] 194 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (125 children)

    In fairness to Trump (there's a sentence I never thought I'd write...)

    "“He said I stood over graves of soldiers and I said: ‘These people are suckers and losers,"

    That's technically correct. He did not say those things in public.

    Edit I watched the ad, it does not specify that Trump said these things in public, just that he said them which is true.

    He said them privately to staff members.

    Confirmed by Trump's former Chief of Staff, John Kelly:

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/john-kelly-confirms-trump-privately-disparaged-us-service-members-vete-rcna118543

    But my favorite quote out of all this is the one that barely gets mentioned:

    https://www.axios.com/2023/10/02/trump-troops-fallen-soldiers-john-kelly

    Trump saying at a 2017 Memorial Day event in Arlington National Cemetery: "I don't get it. What was in it for them?"

    Trump is ENTIRELY transactional. The idea that good men would fight a war for their country purely because it's the right thing to do escapes him entirely.

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    [–] 148 points 2 years ago (16 children)

    He got specific when attacking John McCain, "I like people who weren't captured."

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    [–] 142 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Trump rejected the idea of the visit because he feared his hair would become disheveled in the rain, and because he did not believe it important to honor American war dead, according to four people with firsthand knowledge of the discussion that day. In a conversation with senior staff members on the morning of the scheduled visit, Trump said, “Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.” In a separate conversation on the same trip, Trump referred to the more than 1,800 marines who lost their lives at Belleau Wood as “suckers” for getting killed.

    source, The Atlantic, September 3rd 2020

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  • [–] 45 points 2 years ago

    In a conversation with senior staff members on the morning of the scheduled visit, Trump said, “Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.”

    Arlington was property seized from Robert E. Lee and chartered to house dead Union soldiers after the civil war.

    So it sounds like it was filled with winners, at least for a little while.

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    [–] 141 points 2 years ago

    If it is getting under Trumps skin I’d double down and release more of them. Fuck him.

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  • [–] 118 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    What did he say about John McCain? "I like people who weren't captured."

    Trump has never given a shit about the military or veterans. I'm surprised at how many veterans love him.

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  • [–] 44 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (9 children)

    The military doesn't attract the brightest minds.

    Reminds me of a joke that did the rounds shortly after Finland joined Nato.

    Finnish general: "You know, it's difficult, we have mandatory military service, but around 15% are unfit for service"

    Other Nato generals: "That 15% is where we have to recruit from"

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    [–] 89 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Always keep in mind that Trump is a person with a very weak mind. It might actually be the case that he has forgotten about many of the misdeeds he has done, and considers himself an innocent and successful man just because he does not remember about reality.

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    [–] 77 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That's a startling amount of self-awareness from him.

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  • [+] 75 points 2 years ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (43 children)
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    [–] 72 points 2 years ago

    He can demand all he wants, but... he fucking said it.

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  • [–] 71 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Follow up ad:

    Trump: "only a “psycho” or a “very stupid person” would’ve made such statements."

    Trump: *insults dead troops

    Trump: "only a “psycho” or a “very stupid person” would’ve made such statements."

    Trump: *insults POWs

    Trump: "only a “psycho” or a “very stupid person” would’ve made such statements."

    Repeat ad nauseum for every stupid arms services quote (or any other quote) the dumb idiot has said.

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    [–] 61 points 2 years ago

    "Trump demands"... LOL

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  • [–] 45 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Did Trump just acknowledge he's a very stupid psycho?

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    [–] 40 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Why? None of your cult will care. You can shoot someone in broad daylight, remember?

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    [–] 38 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Well well well, if it isn't the consequences of my own actions

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    [–] 33 points 2 years ago

    How dare you use my own words against me?

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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago

    I didn't expect agreeing with a trump statement in my life, talking about the last part of course

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Now tack that onto the end of the commercial.

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    [–] 28 points 2 years ago

    I demand trump shove a hamberder and covfefe up his asshole (the one near his mushroom, not the one under his nose).

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago

    Sounds like a good life lesson about not saying things you don't want others to hear.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    What video is that? Now I want to look at it.

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    [–] 26 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    I hope the people who still see ads on the content they watch are the same folks who need to see these.

    Nothing I watch has ads anymore, so if I needed this information to know what kind of person Trump was (somehow) I would not be seeing it.

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    [–] 25 points 2 years ago

    "Who put up all these mirrors up? Are you calling me ugly?!?!"

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Did he just call himself a very stupid psycho?

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    [–] 21 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    Trump would fill his pants if he was ever in any kind of war zone. But you know that’ll never happen because he’s a coward.

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