Trump blows off honoring dead soldiers to attend golf tournament.
Trump blows off honoring dead soldiers to attend golf tournament
President Donald Trump isn’t attending the dignified transfer of four American soldiers who died in Lithuania, because he has instead chosen to attend a Saudi-backed golf tournament at his country club in Doral, Florida.
Trump hates the military.
What does it matter? He has their unwavering support. He could have killed them himself and not lost the military's support.
That's not really true. He has the unwavering support of really old veterans who got the same fox news pill as the other boomers. The serving military voted blue in 2020. The Military Times elected not to do a poll in 2024...
There are very vocal service members who support him but the military as a whole does not and is not a fan of Hegseth fucking around in the DoD either. For example one published plan has us divesting our only mobile firepower platforms (strykers), just as the war in Ukraine is making everyone else want them. And F-47 did not go unnoticed either. The Air Force went from a study wondering if we needed NGAD to selecting a vendor without a flyoff and naming it. That thing is going to get ditched January 21st 2029. Then Hegseth is fucking around with physical fitness tests which is actually promotions, schools, and unit qualifications. This is making the most deadly parts of military dislike him. For example we've had women working with Delta for 20 years. First of all Delta isn't giving them up, 20 years ago women were officially banned from combat and that didn't stop them. Second it just conditions them to be anti-administration. So when they get ordered to go get an American "insurgent" who held a sign outside a Tesla dealership one too many times, they may just refuse.
I'm not sure. Certainly, the weirdos who make the military their whole personality back him, but I haven't seen any evidence that he's outstandingly popular with the rank and file and his plans to completely gut the officer corps can't have made him popular there.
Trump hates everything that is not Donald J. Trump.
Hey, that's not fair. He's also weirdly into Ivanka Trump.
Again
Golfing with the fucking Russian oligarchs is more important than honoring dead US soldiers. Fuck Krasnov.
Is it wrong that I am less infuriated by this than I am by the fact people still worship this idiot?
At this point, I am exhausted with being outraged by him. I cannot hate him more than I already do. Doing more evil shit may actually make me hate him less, because I simply cannot keep up to date with all the new reasons to hate him. But I cannot comprehend how millions of people can function in the world while still behaving like everything he does is objectively right. Not even the truly repulsive, monstrous shit, but the petty, insufferable bullshit like this. How do you excuse it? It do not comprehend how anyone can look at this and say, "Yeah, this guy should have nigh-unlimited power over the country and the ability to throw the world into chaos with a Tweet."
Months back somebody on here described it in a simple two-word way that has stuck with me. Dumb and mean.
Many conservatives are just dumb and mean, and that is a nasty combination.
That’s not a perfect generalization, of course. Some are nice people who are profoundly ignorant and misled. Some are smart sociopaths. But it just fits too well for me to ignore.
I think it is important to laugh at the funny demonstrative shit because if you keep getting outraged for every unimportant thing that is done like the Gulf of America thing you're not heard when outraging for actual things that matter like deporting people or silencing opposition
Agreed.
US politics is a fucking comedy. My colleague pulled up the picture of Trump standing with that goofy tariff board where trump is reading all the countries and how many percentages they would be tariffed. My colleague was absolutely cackling at the picture and kept saying "the supposedly richest country in the world and they announce this shit that will affect all of us on a piece of fucking cardboard????!!" 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
I hate the guy but damn is he funny. Everything he says is a meme. He's absolutely a prime example of what america is all about. Him sitting in a tesla and saying: it's a computers. And : I love Tessler is just too funny. And they voted for him twice. I just can't
I said the first time he was elected that, love him or hate him, you have to admit that he is an accurate caricature of America.
For real. To me, Trump is the embodiment of the American stereotype. I know Americans think that the rest of the world stereotype them as being fat, but no no no. The behavior Trump exhibits is the American stereotype on crack. I am pretty anti America (sorry, not sorry) and have been since Bush, but even I could not have come up with a more cartoony and offensive American stereotype than the Trump persona.
he knows his voters are stupider than he is.
Trump is also applying tariffs to an island only inhabited by penguins and seals….
one of my bros was apparently listening to the same thing as white noise, dont you find his voice grating.
They were just suckers and losers anyway.
he doesn't wear a tan suit though so it's ok
Nero fiddling as Rome burns.
The amount of news articles that make me laugh have been steadily increasing.
What a clownly country.
memorable qoutes towards soldiers: " suckers and losers all of the, whats in it for them.
I dont like soldiers that are dead or captured, they disappoint me.
i Like the poorly educated.
I hate it here
Sad, but true
I remember the "Troops for Trump" that would set up from time to time. Never understood it. He's disrespected them multiple times.
he did offer them to putins mercanaries before, when they put out hits on them.
he said they are suckers and losers, and whats in for them, more than one occasion.
Hard to embezzle money from the taxpayers for events that aren't at your place.
"Suckers and loosers"
While a man he admits is innocent is in an El Salvador prison
It would be great if more nationalists and the patriots actually put in effort to change the USA in their neighborhoods, they don’t have to be leftists.
Until then such people are obstacles, even if they get outraged over stuff like in OP news article
they don’t have to be leftists.
To me the most frustrating part is how much fascists like to steal leftist goals and rhetoric. Arguably they would have to be at least some degree of leftist to support the working class as much as they claim to.
Supposedly, I shouldn’t be the one who cares more about US soldiers than a republican president, and yet…
"im not staying for these SUCKERS AND LOSERS, all of them, i dont like them dead"-trump probably
Not only that Lithuanians donated 237k usd for the families of the deceased soldiers Link.
Interview by US general about the deaths and recovery operation
Not surprised. Golf is what he's in to. The presidency and the related task are just somewhere down the list between get the milk and walk the dog. Or how else do you get all these results he did?
Wanna run a fascist dictatorship? Piss off your military. Yeah, that goes well. Keep it up dumbass! When you get your moment of martial law it won't go how you think it will.
When (not IF, but WHEN) Trump declares martial law after the 2026 elections go badly for MAGA and they refuse to transfer power, these soldiers will need to be ready to fight armed US citizens in the street. Will they follow that order? Most rebellions are successful because the defending military simply stops defending.
Well, at least Shady Vance will show up, fulfilling a traditional vice-president's role. Right?
Right?
Something something Benghazi.
Trump blows off honoring dead terrorists to play golf? Unintentionally based.
Who are these articles for? This is Lemmy. Do we really have boomers here upset about him disrespecting "the troops"? Fuck the troops.
Edit: I guess the US "respect our terrorist troops" propaganda goes deep.
You and I don't need to. The person ordering those troops to their death 100% does need to show respect.
Don't cut yourself on all that edge.
"respect our terrorist troop"
They were here to defend us from literal fascists in Russia. You know, those that commit literal warcrimes and crimes against humanity. You know, those that commit a literal genocide.
They are absolute heroes and deserve the greatest honour.
Fuck the troops? If anyone should be fucked, it needs to be you, "LeninOnAPrayer". You have absolute double standards to talk about terrorism when you literally named yourself after a brutal dictator that overthrew the mensheviki democratic government to implement a rule of terror.
God damn. It's like I'm back on reddit with how incredibly stupid some of you are.
Go suck a troops dick.
What I can't believe is how easily the US military is giving up on this conflict. Letting the swamp win is disrespectful to the fallen. We need to send another truckload of troops into the swamp, and if they sink into it too, send another, and another, until eventually they can drive a truck in without it sinking. We can't let the cost of these sunken troops go to waste.
Anyone who says we shouldn't do this is secretly a pro-swamp infiltrator or an accelerationist who hates America because they just want to watch the world burn.
Exactly! I was wrong. I see the light! All of these comments replying to me and yours turned me into a patriot! We must keep throwing bodies at the problem! It would dishonorable to the fallen not to do so!
Have you ever considered that running on a platform of "America sucks" is unlikely to get you elected in America?
I mean he was elected. Twice. He made MAGA. If you want to make it great again, it has to be shit now, by definition. So.... no.
