Trump wrong on 'My generals, my military.' They belong to the people.

[Nevilledog]

https://www.pnj.com/story/opinion/2020/08/19/president-trump-wrong-my-generals-my-military/3373824001/

I’m a Navy vet, and I consider Naval Air Station Pensacola Naval the crown jewel of our Navy. Quite fairly, the people who work there are proud of it. They are no man’s prop.

That is why it is so jarring to hear President Trump refer to "my generals" and "my military." This could not be further from the truth. The oath that members of the military take is "to protect the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic," not to the president or any other person or organization. Given his disrespectful statements and policies, those who serve – or have served – this country should not support him.

When the Vietnam War was at its height, he received five deferments, one for a bone spur. When asked years later which foot disqualified him from service, he could not remember. Worse yet, in 1997 when shock jock radio personality Howard Stern asked Trump how he had dealt with Vietnam, Trump said that during the Vietnam era, he had been lucky not to contract sexually transmitted disease. According to Trump, "I've been so lucky in terms of the whole world. It is a dangerous world out there. It's scary, like Vietnam. Sort of like the Vietnam era. It is my personal Vietnam. I feel like a great and brave soldier." For avoiding STDs? Really?

Speaking of Vietnam: John McCain spent five and a half years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam and refused to leave his fellow POWs once his captors discovered he was the son of an admiral and offered to let him return home. When Trump was asked about McCain, he said, "He's not a war hero. He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren't captured." When Trump attacked Muslims, Mexicans, and other immigrants, McCain responded, "While our party has bestowed on him the nomination, it is not accompanied by unfettered license to defame those who are the best among us."

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[Walleye]

1. He also thinks the US treasury is his money