Once again, David Corn doesn't mince words. This is the unvarnished, disgusting truth.

[Miles Archer]

David Corn
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Verified account

@DavidCornDC

Trump doesn't visit American soldiers aboard. Not when they're alive. Not when they're dead.

10:20 AM - 11 Nov 2018

Link to tweet

[BootinUp]

1. Bullseye.

[Tipperary]

2. Guess he means "abroad."

Proofreading is important.

[Miles Archer]

6. Yeah, but it was worth sharing anyway.

[Bleacher Creature]

14. I don't get why Twitter doesn't allow people to make corrections.

[Xipe Totec]

23. The Orange one already has far too many tools to alter history. Let's not give him another. nt

[KY_EnviroGuy]

29. +1. LOL.

Is it possible to revoke a Bully Pulpit?.........

[Bleacher Creature]

35. Good point. I wasn't thinking that it goes two ways.

[calimary]

22. Oh he'd go over there for a broad or two.

Especially the ones with skimpy clothes and a penchant for golden showers...

[MyOwnPeace]

27. Probably did 2 more laps

around the block looking for more "protesters" to run out to his limo!

[dalton99a]

3. No truer words

[DFW]

4. American soldiers on active duty are all armed and swore an oath to protect our country

No wonder Trump doesn't go near them.

[Arkansas Granny]

9. Good point.

[dlk]

5. Our Commander in Chief is a Coward

Period!

[NorCen_CT]

7. Ever since I read Showdown (Corn was embedded in Obama White House from 2010-2012)

I have devoured everything he has done. He has such a way with fully describing something to the point where I can SEE everything going on vividly.

[cilla4progress]

8. Interesting.

Any way you can summarize the gist? Hadn't heard of this book.

[NorCen_CT]

11. It shows how Obama stayed cool/collected (during times of great tumult)

This review (taken from Goodreads) says it better than I ever could...

Covering the period from the mid-term elections of 2010 to 2012, David Corn offers readers a look inside the Obama Administration through a host of battles. The overall takeaway is that Obama seriously wants to be the adult in the room in DC and tries his best to fulfill that mission. There is a lot of difference between campaigning, in which you can say whatever you like, stake out whatever positions you prefer and not have to temper your rhetoric to accommodate opposition, and actually having to run the federal government. Once in office, your opponents, who might not be able to keep you from talking, can prevent you from enacting your desired legislation unless you play ball.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12669812-showdown

[NorCen_CT]

12. Also, Libya and the Bin Laden raid were discussed in greater detail than I have seen elsewhere

[cilla4progress]

13. America definitely needs a

grownup! Pre-adolescence, toddlerhood, just doesn't cut it.

[NorCen_CT]

15. We essentially have a less grown-up version of Billy Madison as president

Man-child who has made it this far in life solely off of his fathers name and money.

[calimary]

24. Yep. They didn't call him "No Drama Obama" for nothing.

Those were the days...

When bush/cheney TOOK over, cheney sneered that “the adults are back in charge.”

Well m, we finally had one. AFTER those assholes left. One who cleaned up all their messes and straightened out the economy so it could grow again and we could pay down our deficit and other things you’d expect grownups to do.

Only to have an extra-large baby force his way in and start trashing the place all over again.

President Obama was a “good scout”, as in - left the campground better than he found it. This jerk now, and his lawless bunch, are doing to that campground what the fires in California are now doing.

[duforsure]

10. Because he hates America

That's why he's working for putin to help destroy it now. Everything he claims is the opposite of the truth, and why he constantly attacks our government, our military , our system of justice, and all of its people. He hates this country, then lies and claims the opposite. Putin is behind all of this.

[bdamomma]

18. of course he does

I think at one time he called the Constitution obsolete. He's mentally unwell.

Can't those traitorous repigs stand up to this POS??? Yea that's rather a tall order.

[Lucky Luciano]

28. I don't think he hates America.

He is indifferent to America. Whatever helps him personally is all that matters.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

16. The places where active-duty soldiers are serving tend not to have luxury accommodations.

He can't visit Afghanistan because there is no nearby Trump-branded hotel, or any other four-star hotel, for him to stay in. He might have to sleep in a barracks room made as comfortable as possible under the circumstances, and even though he'd have it to himself and probably wouldn't have to eat MREs, there would be no tanning bed, no 24-7 Fox News, and no gold toilet. But even that's not an excuse for refusing to make even a one-day turnaround where he gets off AF1, makes a cameo appearance at a base, does a photo op with a plastic turkey, gets back on AF1 after an hour or two and flies home.

[FakeNoose]

17. That's exactly it - if he can't bring any business to his own property, screw 'em

Isn't there some law against emoluments?

[AZ8theist]

25. Oh I'm sure Faux News is on 24 x 7 on our bases...

Perhaps the military DUers here can confirm that.

But the rest of his "required luxuries" don't exist. You are spot on...

[BigmanPigman]

19. He only likes the military as far as he can use them

to get votes in an election, get a military parade or to fight an imaginary battle at our border with Mexico.

[Kurt V.]

32. yep. like all autocrats

he views the military (void of actual humans) a tool to be exerted at his whim.

[LakeArenal]

41. Beat me to it. He likes a big show of power.

Thank gawd his parade was cancelled.

[blue-wave]

20. I'll bet if they were

Nazi or Russian graves, he'd be there in an instant.

[Raven123]

21. Of course not. He doesn't honor them. He expects them to honor him

[keithbvadu2]

37. Trump does not want to salute the military. He wants the world to see the military salute him.

Trump does not want to salute the military.
He wants the world to see the military salute him.

Will it be awkward when he refuses POWs a place in his parade?
After all, Donald does not like soldiers who were captured.

[Xipe Totec]

26. If you forget me - Pablo Neruda

If you think it long and mad,
the wind of banners
that passes through my life,
and you decide
to leave me at the shore
of the heart where I have roots,
remember
that on that day,
at that hour,
I shall lift my arms
and my roots will set off
to seek another land.

Source: https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/if-you-forget-me-by-pablo-neruda

[world wide wally]

30. All he does is pay lip service and that makes him a military hero to the despicables

[keithbvadu2]

38. A great and very brave soldier

[Oppaloopa]

39. Isn't there a height requirement for soldiers? His is to small for active duty.

[Pisces]

31. Wow

[Gothmog]

33. Arghh

Link to tweet

[oldlibdem]

34. private bonespurs only cares about his own vanity.

n/t

[Cha]

36. Thank You, David Corn.. What does the

Military think of this.. Hillary most certainly Would Have.

[lagomorph777]

40. If veterans and active-duty military support the GOP after this,

they deserve what happens to them.