Two people who once worked closely with Donald Trump have weighed in on reports that he mocked dead troops and those missing in action. John Bolton and Michael Cohen both made remarks on Friday. Bolton, the former National Security Advisor, gave an interview Friday morning. He claimed he hadn’t heard the President saying the exact…
A retired general has gone viral with a video harshly criticizing Donald Trump for mocking U.S. troops. Several news outlets have confirmed the President calling dead soldiers “losers.” Major General Paul Eaton posted a video on Twitter addressing an article published in The Atlantic on Thursday. The video has already garnered more than 2 million views. “I’m…
A new report from the Washington Post appears to confirm reporting that Donald Trump has mocked and criticized military veterans as well as U.S. troops missing in action. Following an article published Thursday in The Atlantic, the Post reported on Friday that their sources had confirmed Trump’s attacks on military members and called them “losers.” “A former senior administration…
Tammy Duckworth has accused Donald Trump of cowardice following a report that he didn’t want amputee veterans in military parades. The Democrat lost both legs in Iraq. The senator took to Twitter on Friday following an article in the The Atlantic claiming Trump didn’t want any veterans in military parades who were amputees. “What Donald Trump will…
Conservative Rick Wilson suggested on Friday that the Trump White House is in a panic following a story claiming the President mocked dead U.S. soldiers and refused to visit a military cemetery. Wilson, a former Republican political strategist opposed to Trump, shared a tweet from the President defending himself against a charge that he didn’t…
A new poll shows that a majority of active-duty military personnel disapprove of Donald Trump and would vote for Joe Biden if the election were held today. The shock new poll was published Monday by Military Times, which describes itself as an “independent voice for news about service members.” The poll was conducted in conjunction with Syracuse…
Donald Trump has said he won’t allow military bases to be renamed and he claimed one senior Republican senator agrees with him. This is despite recent bills mandating the change. The President is setting himself up for a conflict with the House and Senate. Both bodies this week passed armed services bills by veto-proof majorities…
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs has said the military will look again at bases named after Confederates. General Mark Milley is weighing into a debate that has animated the President. Gen. Milley spoke to the House Armed Services committee about the bases still named for Confederates and he conceded that it was time to…
General Mark Milley has apologized for his participation in a photo op with President Donald Trump at a church in Washington, D.C. The admission may well be unprecedented, Milley is the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the most senior military officer in the United States. He addressed his involvement in the photo…
Law enforcement will remove Donald Trump if he loses the election and refuses to leave office. That’s the opinion of former federal prosecutor and MSNBC legal analyst Glenn Kirschner. Kirschner spoke to SiriusXM’s Dean Obeidallah about the possibility of a defeated Trump refusing to leave. “In the past we’ve all said things about Donald Trump…
A retired Marine general has warned that Donald Trump’s recent actions could endanger the future of American democracy. Four-star General John Allen voiced his concerns on Thursday. Allen criticized the President’s controversial visit to St. John’s Church in Washington, D.C. on Monday. “To even the casual observer, Monday was awful for the United States and…
The President has become the subject of mockery following a tweet about the Iranian military. Social media users piled on Donald Trump for suggesting boats can be shot down. “I have instructed the United States Navy to shoot down and destroy any and all Iranian gunboats if they harass our ships at sea,” Trump tweeted…
On Tuesday, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said the U.S. military may be used to defend against or prevent Russia’s election meddling in the upcoming 2018 midterm elections — but did not elaborate as to specifically how the armed forces would be deployed. The Military Times reported that Mattis also said he agrees that the order…
Raf Noboa, an Iraq War veteran and former Army sergeant, may have said it best: “America’s military once liberated people from concentration camps. It beggars the mind and our morality that it might be used to secure them.” “It smacks of totalitarianism,” added Steve Kleinman, a retired Air Force colonel and military intelligence officer. Kleinman…
In his swan song press conference Speaker of the House Paul Ryan said “I have accomplished much of what I came here to do.” He said that “tax reform and rebuilding the military” were his two big achievements as a Republican leader in Congress. Unfortunately for America’s middle class, he also said that he has…
The survey also found that U.S. service members are worried about the growing threat of white nationalism.
Once again, Donald Trump has shown that he is on the wrong side of history, but the thousands of brave transgender members of the U.S. military aren’t likely to go down without a fight.
A national PPP poll finds that 32 percent of Republican voters believe “the government is trying to take over Texas”.
Instead of ignoring the paranoid Texans, or telling them to grow up, Texas Governor Greg Abbott incited more distrust by ordering a Texas militia to keep the real U.S. military under a watchful eye to prevent any violations of the Constitution and Texans’ liberties.
No American should delude themselves that the current violence raging in Iraq and Syria is anything other than an extreme sectarian war between the two major Islamic sects, or that American military intervention is ever going to bring a cessation to the violence.
Pamela Geller disengenuously claims she does not hate all Arabs and Muslims despite paraphrasing an Ayn Rand quote which does exactly that
While attempting to criticize Obama’s commitment to the military, Mitt Romney managed to insult every veteran who has bravely served.