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Biden chokes up while talking about deceased son and Trump's disparaging remarks about service members

“That man doesn’t deserve to have been the commander in chief for my son, my uncle,” he said, referring to Beau Biden and Ambrose Finnegan, who both served in the military

President Joe Biden choked up Wednesday talking about the military service of his family members and former President Donald Trump's disparaging remarks about service members.

“They asked [Trump] to go visit American gravesites. He said, 'No.' He wouldn’t do it. Because they were all 'suckers' and 'losers,'” Biden told a crowd of union workers. “I’m not making that up. The staff who were with him acknowledge it today. Suckers and losers.”

He paused for a moment and added, “That man doesn’t deserve to have been the commander in chief for my son, my uncle.” Beau Biden and Ambrose Finnegan both served in the military before Trump took office.

Biden's comments referred to Trump’s 2018 trip to Paris for the centennial of the end of World War I, when he declined to visit the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery and reportedly called Marines who died at Belleau Wood “suckers” and fallen soldiers at the U.S. cemetery “losers.”

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  • Imagine dying for the military lmao.

    • Imagine living in a country where some people's only way out is to sign up to die for their country. Now imagine there's someone making fun of them for it.

      • Was homeless at 17 for the better part of 2 years. Tried to kill myself with inhalants many times. Found out the service was taking in meat shields like they were going out of style. Watched thousands die in Iraq and still deal with the guilt and self-destructiveness today. It is getting better, good people found me and chose to love me.

        There's a part of me that does not disagree with the comment, I honestly wanted to die in that place. But it's so disrespectful to say, and you nailed it.

        • And it's braindead and I'm not sure you need to be in the military to realize dudes are dying in the military, but not for the military. My thought process eventually became don't want to kill, don't want to die, but would do either for my guys, my squad, platoon, company. Maybe even Fox company but fuck those guys.

          • 😂 It's always fucking foxtrot. But it's also the only place you can get shit off the books. ⚖️

      • Some people's "only way out" in nazi germany was to join the nazi party. Should they get our sympathy too? These people aren't dying for their country, they're dying for corporate profits.

        • I was using the words the person i replied to used as far as "dying for your country" and as far as your straw man, shove off.

          EDIT: They said military not country, my bad.

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