Opinion: The President cannot comprehend true patriotism

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Donald Trump may admire the military, but he has shown his contempt for the people who decide to join it and serve the nation -- a decision he seems to find utterly incomprehensible. Americans have heard him disparage war heroes for years, from the late Sen. John McCain to the families of soldiers killed in battle. Americans who sacrifice everything for their country are not heroes in his view, but "losers" and "suckers," according to a new article in The Atlantic, which quotes multiple unnamed sources, including at least one retired four-star general. Trump has vehemently denied the report, but other news organizations separately corroborated some of the claims in the piece.

The reporting is so consistent with everything we've seen from Trump since 2015 that the only shocking part is that we can still be shocked by anything he says or does. But it does take one's breath away to hear the details.

I vividly remember watching his 2018 trip to France, which marked the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I. On a rainy day, the leaders of France, Germany and other US allies traveled to the cemetery at Aisne-Marne outside Paris, where 1,800 US Marines were killed. Trump, however, canceled. While the White House blamed the weather, Trump, according to The Atlantic, failed to show up because he didn't want to mess up his hair in the rain. The solemn occasion didn't warrant it. Four people with firsthand knowledge told The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg that Trump said, "Why should I go to that cemetery? It's filled with losers." He also called the dead "suckers" for getting killed.

We've all seen his bizarre full-body embrace of the American flag, and yet he has so little interest in or respect for US history. Trump's patriotism is self-serving theater; so over the top that it reeks of hypocrisy.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/opinion-the-president-cannot-comprehend-true-patriotism/ar-BB18Ke0i?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=DELLDHP

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Direct link to CNN article:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/05/opinions/the-president-cannot-comprehend-true-patriotism-ghitis/index.html

[IllinoisBirdWatcher]

2. Not opinion. Demonstrable fact. N/T

[Blue Owl]

3. The only use for the military is to make Trump look powerful in his own mind

How pathetic...

[Permanut]

4. This veteran is not seeing that Mango Mussolini admires the military..

What I'm seeing is that he wants to use the military as a tool to bolster his ego, and that he wants perfect photo ops with perfect troops marching in perfect unison and saluting their dear leader.

Kind of like some other malignant narcissistic megalomaniac psychopaths through history.

[Stuart G]

5. Outstanding post...K and R, Thank You for posting this..

[thesquanderer]

6. re: "so little interest in or respect for US history"

Yes, and let's not forget how the 1918 flu ended WWII (in 1917)...

or all of these...