Trump at war
The military would be in rebellion, as would the CIA, as Andy Kroll profiles.
Click here for reuse options!In the 1990s, Trump made headlines for lobbying the New York State legislature to ban disabled veterans from working as street vendors around Trump Tower. “Do we allow Fifth Avenue, one of the world’s finest and most luxurious shopping districts, to be turned into an outdoor flea market, clogging and seriously downgrading the area?” he wrote to a state assemblyman. Thirteen years later, he appealed again to then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg. “Whether they are veterans or not,” he wrote, “[the vendors] should not be allowed to sell on this most important and prestigious shopping street.”
At times, his remarks on veterans and military service have veered into outright mockery. In a 1997 interview with Howard Stern, Trump likened his determination to avoid sexually transmitted infections to serving in combat. His sex life in the 1980s was “my personal Vietnam,” he said. “I feel like a great and very brave soldier.” Last summer, he declared that Senator John McCain—a former Navy pilot who was held prisoner for five and a half years and tortured by the North Vietnamese—was “not a war hero.” His reasoning: “I like people that weren’t captured.”
…“He completely misunderstands the military profession that he would head if he were the president,” said Robert Killebrew, a retired colonel who served in the Army for more than 30 years. Others were less polite. In a pair of ads produced by the American Future Fund, a retired Special Forces commander named Michael Waltz calls Trump a draft-dodger who “hasn’t served this country a day in his life,” and a Vietnam veteran, Tom Hanton, says that Trump’s quip about POWs was “the most infuriating comment I think I’ve heard from a politician in my entire life.” One former Marine infantry officer described Trump to me as a “fake-bake-ing chicken hawk” whose “knowledge of the Middle East could be trumped (sorry) by your average Georgetown sophomore.”
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amersham46 April 26th, 2016 at 18:07
Trump is not the only screaming ‘not in my neighborhood’
Mensa Member April 26th, 2016 at 19:43
If that was an isolated incident, I could probably give Trump a break. Street vendors often need to be regulated — veteran or not.
Here is the bigger issue for me — are they selling on the street out of desperation? That’s a serious problem.
Mensa Member April 26th, 2016 at 19:46
But, it’s not an isolated incident. Trump clearly does not understand or respect the military.
(Like most functions of government, obviously.)
fahvel April 27th, 2016 at 03:34
his disrespect for govt is probably the only positive thing about the slime.
nola878 April 26th, 2016 at 21:22
Selling on the streets under a 1894 law designed to help veterans of the Civil War (or the war of Northern Aggression as Stars and Bars humpers like to call it):
“Disabled veteran street vendors in New York are legally exempt from municipal regulations on street vendors, under a 19th-century New York state law.[1][2] As of 2004, there were 374 permitted disabled veteran street vendors, 60 of whom were permitted to operate inside Midtown Manhattan.[3]”
Interesting story.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disabled_veteran_street_vendors
fahvel April 27th, 2016 at 03:33
No, dear mensa, street vendors do not need to be regulated. Your military industry and your banks and the rest of the thieves doing business as usual need to be regulated after a short stint in a fkn prison.
William April 26th, 2016 at 18:53
Just another no-nothing chicken-hawk. http://occupydemocrats.com/2016/04/26/army-vets-generals-just-unloaded-draft-dodger-trump-devastating-quotes/?fb_comment_id=1374270229265980_1374396515920018&comment_id=1374396515920018#fb6a9c277f3fe2
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nola878 April 26th, 2016 at 18:56
Sure glad my boys are out of the military.
Just in case.
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StoneyCurtisll April 26th, 2016 at 19:25
LOL~!!
Frank Foster April 26th, 2016 at 19:05
Snap to, Trumpettes and prepare for battle, your mighty faux commander in chief commands you!
Mensa Member April 26th, 2016 at 19:40
I don’t like McCain very much, as a politician, but I would never call him a loser for getting captured. There is something seriously wrong with Trump.
Red Mann April 26th, 2016 at 20:01
From: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/09/us/politics/donald-trump-likens-his-schooling-to-military-service-in-book.html?_r=0
“Mr. Trump said his experience at the New York Military Academy, an expensive prep school where his parents had sent him to correct poor behavior, gave him “more training militarily than a lot of the guys that go into the military.””
katkelly57 April 26th, 2016 at 21:16
“correct poor behavior”
Ma and Pa Trump shoulda got a refund.
bpollen April 27th, 2016 at 05:19
Military service is to Trump as water is to a rabid dog.