Brace Yourself: This Appears to be Getting Worse
Today Donald Trump said that veterans with PTSD aren’t strong like he is.
Donald Trump on Monday suggested to a room full of veterans that soldiers who return from war suffering from PTSD are not “strong” and “can’t handle it.”
After saying there are around 22 veteran suicides a day, Trump explained to the room of veterans what PTSD was.
“When people come back from war and combat and they see maybe what the people in this room have seen many times over, and you’re strong and you can handle it, but a lot of people can’t handle it,” Trump said.
That was nice of him because veterans would not possibly know what PTSD is. And no telling how many men and women in the room are currently being treated for PTSD.
Trump’s campaign blamed it on the media, saying they are taking him out of context. Yeah, right.
Says the man who couldn’t serve because one of his feet was sore.
1Those soldiers must be very polite people because none of them punched him in the face — the sort of treatment he suggests for people with whom he doesn’t agree.
This is a jackwagon who thinks that screwing around and risking assorted venereal diseases is equivalent to service in Vietnam.
Frankly I think he has tertiary syphilis and it’s eaten holes in his brain.
2I TOLD you he really, really doesn’t want to be POTUS. This is just another constituency he’s alienated.
The problem is, however, that this entire performance art piece was designed to boost his “Brand”. Unfortunately his brand has been so devalued, because of his antics, that The Donald may be completely bankrupt within a few years. Then Uday and Qusay will have to get real jobs.
3If the veterans in that room didn’t have PTSD before Trump walked in and started talking, there’s a good chance they do now.
4So now the male soldiers get a taste of “mansplaining” the female Vets have already been through tat lesson.
5Unspeakably stupid and vile.
In other words, Trump on a Monday. Or any other day of the week, lfor that matter.
6BarbinDC, I respectfully disagree that he really doesn’t want to be POTUS. I think he wants to *BE* POTUS, to have the power he thinks POTUS has, he just doesn’t want to lift even one of his tiny fingers or rub together his possibly two remaining brain cells to do the actual work.
7RA that’s why he’s planning to turn it over to Pence.
8Doing what he does best – setting someone else up to fail.
9You can kiss your women’s rights goodbye if dense pence runs the country.
10Linda Phipps, that’s why the sane, and even marginally sane, everywhere should have the bejabbers scared out of them. Pence and his Talibandigelical devotees are aiming for a Theocracy and they really don’t care how that’s accomplished. To hell with the konstitushun. It’s just a goddamned piece of paper (to borrow from Gee Duh-bya) that gets in their way.
11I agree, Carol, and would like to extend the thought a bit more.
To put it more succinctly, he just as well had called them “pussies.” Then it becomes more clear that misogyny hurts men and women both.
When more people realize that separating the “us” and “them” hurts everyone, perhaps things can change to “we.” Or even, “we the people…”
12How to run for president:
Insult Mexicans.
Insult gold star parents.
Insult veterans with PTSD.
Insult the New York Times.
Insult overweight women.
Insult people who pay taxes.
Insult anybody you may have missed insulting before.
Then hope they all vote for you. Good luck with that.
13Don’t know what anyone could possibly find to like in trump. Thinking that when he loses, the Russians and Germans will call all his loans and when naive little trumpie try’s to sue, Putin will hand him his balls for breakfast.
14And…how many of these veterans will vote for Trump anyway thinking this wasn’t about them but the “other” veterans who are weak. As an ex-Air Force member I don’t have too much sympathy for veterans who support republicans; willfully ignoring the fact that republican politicians consistently vote against funding for veteran support or for helping to improve the Veterans Administration. Republican veterans are perfectly happy to cut off their nose to spite their face as long as they think the people they hate are worse off than themselves.
15Trump can NOW sue Putin, or Russia, as much as he want. Congress says so!
16GLF is correct.
17The very sad thing is many of the vets in that heard Trump will not hesitate to vote for him.
Grampa Joe ripped Scumpf a new one on this issue. Biden really got his heart and soul into it. You’ll love it.
https://goo.gl/irJwhr
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