Trump On The Military And Military Service

 

The Week compiled a list last October of remarks Cadet Bone Spurs has made about the military and military service over the years.  We thought, on this of all days, attention should be paid to this hollow, grossly unfit person's true words and beliefs, rather than something an aide or speechwriter wrote for him.  Here are excerpts from the list:

On US military officials

"I don't want to tell you what I had to go through with these people. Some of the dumbest people I've ever met in my life." October 16, 2023.

"I wouldn't go to war with you people. You're a bunch of dopes and babies." July 20, 2017.

"You fucking generals. Why can't you be more like Hitler's generals?" 2017. Trump denies having made this remark.


On the burial of US Army private Vanessa Guillén

"It doesn't cost 60,000 bucks to bury a fucking Mexican!" December 4, 2020. Trump has denied having made the remark.

On the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who was a prisoner of war in Vietnam for five and a half years

"Obamacare is a catastrophe, nobody talks about it. You know, without John McCain, we would have had it done. But John McCain, for some reason, couldn't get his arm up." July 16, 2024.  [snip]

"We're not going to support that loser's funeral." August, 2018. Trump has denied having made this remark.

 "He's a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren't captured, okay? I hate to tell you." July 18, 2015.

 

On lowering flags to half-mast after McCain's death

"What the fuck are we doing that for? Guy was a fucking loser." August 2018. Trump has denied making this remark.  [snip]

On fallen soldiers at Aisne-Marne American Cemetery

"Why should I go to that cemetery? It's filled with losers." November 11, 2018. Trump denies having made this remark.

On the 1,800 US Marines who died at Belleau Wood in France during World War I

"Suckers." November 11, 2018. Trump denies having made this remark.

On US soldiers in World War I

"Who were the good guys in this war?" November 11, 2018. Trump denies having asked this question.

"I don't get it. What was in it for them?" November 11, 2018. Trump denies having made this remark.


On disabled veterans

"Why do you bring people like that here? No one wants to see that, the wounded." September 30, 2019.

"Look, I don't want any wounded guys in the parade. This doesn't look good for me." Summer 2017...

 

There's more deranged slop at the link above, if you care to refresh your memory.

Meanwhile, most recently, he downplayed the loss of life in his Operation Epic Epstein Fury distraction-gone-wrong (May 20, 2026):

We lost 13 people. In other wars, you lost hundreds of thousands of people. I get a kick when I look at somebody on television and they say, 'he's lost 13 people.'

What a small, putrid, morally bankrupt thing he is.