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Donald Trump on Sunday called for President Joe Biden to take down an attack ad featuring a series of quotes attributed to the Republican in which he mocks dead soldiers.
The former presidents demand came on the same day that Biden honored fallen troops in a visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery in France, the burial ground that Trump chose not to visit in 2018 and was later reported to have done so while describing the site as filled with losers. Trump has denied making the remarkand another in which he allegedly called more than 1,800 Marines suckers for being killedever since The Atlantic first published his purported words in 2020.
Those denials continued Sunday, first at a rally in Las Vegas. He said I stood over graves of soldiers and I said: These people are suckers and losers, the dead soldiers from World War I, Trump said, referring to Biden. He went on to claim the whole episode was made up and, despite the Biden campaign knowing its phony, they still took an ad using itthese are sick people.
Trump appeared to be referring to an attack ad launched by the Biden campaign on Friday during the presidents visit to Normandy for ceremonies commemorating the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings. The video featured the reported suckers and losers quotes, along with audio of Trump mocking the late Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) as being thought of as a war hero because he was captured during the Vietnam War. I like people that werent captured, Trump added.
Link to tweet
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-demands-biden-remove-ad-093232346.html
Truth hurts.
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ColinC
(9,012 posts)![](/emoticons/bounce.gif)
What as thin skinned narcissist
Demsrule86
(69,918 posts)viva la
(3,559 posts)But his allegiance to Trump matters more than his loyalty to the military and those who died liberating Europe from Hitler.
Here's the sequence of his change:
1. Trump goes to D-Day commemoration during his administration. He said and did disrespectful things about our military and those who fought and died.
2. Biden goes to D-Day commemoration and behaves with respect, honoring the heroic sacrifices.
3. Trump's behavior is back in the news, and people are talking about his disrespect for the heroes of D-Day.
4. Lindsey Graham decides that licking Trump requires joining him in sneering at those who served.
5. Also, he realizes he now has to denigrate the importance of D-Day and the immense (though destructive) achievement.
6. Once again he proves that loving Trump means hating all that is good.
NYC Liberal
(20,230 posts)before the escalation into another world war which is what led to D-Day being necessary. Not that D-Day was a failure. And he was comparing it to what will happen if we fail to stop Putin. This was in response to Tommy Tuberville claiming Putin has no interest in seizing land.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lindsey-graham-senator-south-carolina-face-the-nation-transcript-06-09-2024/
SWBTATTReg
(22,828 posts)Never take Pres. Biden's words down mocking tRUMP. tRUMP will be the one mocked in the years to come for many reasons.
not mocking tfg, but just showing us all what Trump says about American soldiers that fight for our country. What kind of president talks about their countrys soldiers that way, saying they are losers and suckers.
Torchlight
(3,803 posts)A schoolyard bully folding faster than soggy paper, whining that people are doing to him what he habitually does to everyone else.
TSExile
(3,223 posts)Keep the ads coming, Biden/Harris campaign!!
BoRaGard
(1,256 posts)REPUBLICANS DENY HAVING POTTY MOUTHS
and telling lies about their lies.
Trueblue1968
(17,493 posts)That is Trump through and through.
#LockUpTrump .... 40 Years bin the slammer !!!!
rurallib
(62,712 posts)Sue him?
agingdem
(8,160 posts)PatSeg
(49,305 posts)Or at least threaten to sue him. The "suckers and losers" is out there now, so it wouldn't matter if they took the ad down. People have seen and heard it. It's not going away.
It doesn't serve Trump to keep repeating it however, even if he is denying he said it. All he's doing is reinforcing the phrase in people's minds. Politics 101.
NanaCat
(2,332 posts)Double down.
TSExile
(3,223 posts)They need to be beaten at their own game.
BlueKota
(2,539 posts)but I love to see someone else turn the tables and mock the bullies.
TSExile
(3,223 posts)I don't like bullies...especially bullies in elected office. I don't like people who punch down.
BlueKota
(2,539 posts)ECL213
(267 posts)soldierant
(7,439 posts)BlueKota
(2,539 posts)about McCain. I am no fan of the late Senator, but at least he had the honor to serve, unlike Butthead Bonespurs.
The Magistrate
(95,729 posts)"A hit dog hollers."
speak easy
(9,562 posts)Johonny
(21,431 posts)Whereas Trump lies all the time. Let him sue and lose. Leave the truth up.
agingdem
(8,160 posts)and remember Trump's "losers" and "suckers" comments were part of a conversation he had with John Kelly, a Gold Star father...
LiberalFighter
(52,727 posts)surfered
(1,183 posts)Well, Hell has frozen over boys and girls, because I agree with Trump on this...a psycho and a very stupid person did make those statement.
onecaliberal
(34,422 posts)MagickMuffin
(16,347 posts)World War I, I think President Biden just made his point!
IbogaProject
(3,091 posts)If you can't prove you didnt say it when we have proof you've said very similar things than tough beans Mr Felon.
texasfiddler
(2,122 posts)Last edited Mon Jun 10, 2024, 05:04 PM - Edit history (1)
Good to see magats on defense. More please.
tinrobot
(11,132 posts)The Biden team needs to keep up the pressure.
SunSeeker
(52,687 posts)![](/emoticons/donkey.gif)
markodochartaigh
(1,506 posts)has been a common political dictum. It is great seeing that telling the truth boldly can be just as effective.
NanaCat
(2,332 posts)Bold slander that stuck because it made people wonder. 'It can't be true, but...what if it is?'
BoRaGard
(1,256 posts)the more the republicans whine about this the more people know the horrible thing the Convicted Republican Felon said about America's soldiers.
ismnotwasm
(42,250 posts)You said it Donald.
AllaN01Bear
(21,069 posts)spanone
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GB_RN
(2,662 posts)Fuck off, dick.
Cantaloupe Caligula the Corpulent is just mad that his own words are being used against him. 😁
lark
(23,600 posts)Cantaloupe Caligula the Corpulent is amazingly fitting for tcf (the criminal felon). I may use this when I feel like waxing elogquent! lol
I came up with Cantaloupe Caligula first. Yesterday, it hit me that I could make an alliteration with it by adding the Corpulent, and still be quite the accurate description of him.
By all means, feel free to use and share!😁
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Lovie777
(13,496 posts)he's said a lot of crappy shit. Lies, threatens, talks about violence and hatred, towards others everything that JC would not do.
Emile
(26,124 posts)to jail!
Irish_Dem
(53,281 posts)But when people tell the truth about him, he is furious and demands a retraction.
sop
(11,078 posts)Irish_Dem
(53,281 posts)NanaCat
(2,332 posts)He doubled down on it.
That's why I said to do the same to him. He's mad that Biden used his own words against him?
Double down by finding some more in the same vein to use against him.
EddieOnTheMesa
(57 posts)FUCK THEM!!
Think. Again.
(12,563 posts)twodogsbarking
(10,699 posts)11 Bravo
(23,967 posts)BaronChocula
(1,883 posts)and Robert DeNiro in "This Boy's Life" knows that expression. That made my birthday.
11 Bravo
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BaronChocula
(1,883 posts)![](/emoticons/hattip.gif)
niyad
(116,410 posts)I was relieved that a work standoff was resolved (by me caving, whaddaya gonna do) and Some El Pollo Loco for dinner. At my age, I guess it's a pretty good birthday.
Thank you for the wishes!
BlueKota
(2,539 posts)NanaCat
(2,332 posts)When my brothers or I said we wanted something unreasonable. Mum and her brothers said he used it all the time with them, too, and they were born between 1924 - 1939.
So it's been around for a very long time.
CoopersDad
(2,352 posts)In my own local activist battles, the bad guys often signal whatever it is I've found that damages them the most.
And that's how I know what has been most effective, and I've used it to good effect.
Make him even crazier, hit him where it hurts then hit him again.
Initech
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The Unmitigated Gall
(4,166 posts)Now he can wear it.
PortTack
(33,585 posts)ultralite001
(972 posts)Emile
(26,124 posts)texasfiddler
(2,122 posts)orangecrush
(20,533 posts)Buns_of_Fire
(17,450 posts)ShazzieB
(17,277 posts)He probably didn't think there was anything wrong with what he said...until those words were used against him in a Biden ad and he realized they could damage him. Eat your heart out, Orange Hellbeast!
Bristlecone
(10,252 posts)If they complain, they know it hits hard.
lpbk2713
(42,947 posts)Let him go first. His word is no good.
Rhiannon12866
(212,677 posts)And his father responded that they would "disown him."
Wounded Bear
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Scruffy1
(3,339 posts)Make him defend Me only know offensive and nothing about defense. Pun inteneded.
ProudMNDemocrat
(17,575 posts)That is a very powerful ad.
Joe is going to use his words against him in ads from here on out.
Aviation Pro
(12,653 posts)Does fuck you work for you?
Blue Owl
(52,448 posts)edhopper
(34,228 posts)is the things Trump has accused Biden of that are complete lies.
Emrys
(7,594 posts)You want the ad taken down that quotes you, fearful of getting your elaborate hairstyle wet, describing war graves as filled with losers (unlike you, who famously boasted that you fulfilled your national service through the selfless winning sacrifice of trying to lay as many misguided women as possible despite the heightened risk of AIDS at the time) and that time you as commander-in-chief called loyal but dead marines suckers and that time you said of POWs that you preferred those who werent captured?
You want the one quoting you complaining that war graves were filled with losers, calling marines suckers and disrespecting POWs taken down?
That one?
OK, I remember those episodes clearly now. After everything else you've been up to in the mean time, they seem almost quaint.
Yeah, they'd better do that before anyone else is reminded of what you said. I'm sure they'll get right onto that.
Liberal In Texas
(13,942 posts)Trump is a despicable excuse for a human being.
TBF
(32,758 posts)whopis01
(3,598 posts)and called them losers and suckers.
Trump refused to go to the cemetery, so he couldnt possibly have stood over their graves when he called them losers and suckers.
DENVERPOPS
(9,312 posts)there will be tens of millions standing over and around his grave! So much they will have to install large area drains in the grass around his tomb stone........
NanaCat
(2,332 posts)Because he did. He said one of his loathsome remarks about the military dead to John Kelly at Arlington National Cemetery--over the grave of Kelly's son killed in Afghanistan, no less.
He cant fathom the idea of doing something for someone other than himself, one of Kellys friends, a retired four-star general, told me. He just thinks that anyone who does anything when theres no direct personal gain to be had is a sucker. Theres no money in serving the nation. Kellys friend went on to say, Trump cant imagine anyone elses pain. Thats why he would say this to the father of a fallen marine on Memorial Day in the cemetery where hes buried.
https://archive.ph/eRtK2#selection-967.0-967.1192
Mike Nelson
(10,149 posts)... Crooked Donald is upset because he did not mean "dead soldiers," and meant it to be "all soldiers"?
Martin68
(23,746 posts)A true narcissist.
Jimvanhise
(328 posts)On video Trump mocked John McCain's military service (he was a POW for 5 years) and said, "I like people who don't get captured" which doesn't even make any sense and Trump has never explained it or apologized to McCain's family.
republianmushroom
(15,652 posts)notKeith
(144 posts)... you stupid fuck! You moron Mango Mussolini!
Why don't you sue the Biden adminstration, I dunno, maybe for slander, libel or defamation?
I think you should go that route if what you say (now) is accurate, that you NEVER said those things.
I would ** LOVE ** to see the discovery on that lawsuit - oh mah gawd.