Unable to live up to the codes of conduct at U.S. military academies, Trump would be drummed out.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The burial of John McCain at the U.S. Naval Academy brought to mind my time as a midshipman at Kings Point, the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, and the 25 years we lived 5 miles from the Naval Academy’s cemetery.

Thinking about McCain I was struck by the realization that Donald J. Trump, the nation’s commander in chief, isn’t morally or ethically qualified to attend any of the five U.S. service academies. He’d get booted in a New York minute from West Point, Annapolis, Kings Point and both the Air Force and Coast Guard academies.

Why, you ask?

Simple. He doesn’t meet the ethical standards for entrance, and more importantly, he’s so violated their honor codes that he would be immediately dismissed as unworthy to take a place among the likes of McCain, Dwight Eisenhower, John Glenn, or even Mike Pompeo.

Think on that. The man who orders our finest young men and women to put their lives on the line, risking death defending our country and upholding the Constitution, is patently unqualified and unworthy to attend a day’s class, march 10 steps in a formation, or even eat a salad in their mess halls.

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[braddy]

1. Are you comparing men as 18 year olds, or a 72 year old divorced billionaire celebrity who has

lived a long and international life, with 18 year old teens?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

2. Not my editorial

Why are you defending Trump?

[Haggis for Breakfast]

3. As a retiree of the U S NAVY

I'm with you, Mama. When I think of the fine men and women with whom I have had the privilege to serve, people who made the commitment to excellence and kept reaching for the highest standards everyday, inspiring others to do the same by the example they set, it sickens me that we have a CinC who lacks the most basic building blocks of character.

In the NAVY, our motto is Honor, Courage, Commitment. Does trmp even know what those words mean ? I, for one, doubt it.

SEMPER FORTIS

[braddy]

4. I'm not, I asked the obvious question.

[SunSeeker]

5. You think Trump was honest when he was 18?

His bad behavior was quite evident when he was in high school.

He is slimy Fred Trump's kid.

[braddy]

6. That didn't answer my question, young Edgar Allen Poe got into West Point but would he have later?

Would McCain, or Eisenhower, etc? Are we comparing virginal 18 year olds with a 72 year old high living celebrity, Manhattan N.Y. billionaire?

[SunSeeker]

7. I did answer your question. You are mischaracterizing the OP.

They're comparing a pathological liar (of any age) with normal human beings (of any age). Trump has ALWAYS been a pathological liar. The OP is saying a person with Trump's psychological makeup could never have gotten into a military academy--at 18 or 72. I don't know why you find that so objectionable.