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fleur-de-lisa

(14,627 posts)
Thu Jun 14, 2018, 09:49 AM Jun 2018

Video of Dolt45 saluting a North Korean general. President Obama would have been blasted for this.

Red T Raccoon @RedTRaccoon

Donald Trump salutes a North Korean general.

This salute is now being used as propaganda in North Korea.

What would Truman and MacArthur say about this?

Do we need to make a note?

"Do not salute the enemy"


8:42 AM - Jun 14, 2018


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Video of Dolt45 saluting a North Korean general. President Obama would have been blasted for this. (Original Post) fleur-de-lisa Jun 2018 OP
Yikes underpants Jun 2018 #1
And he thinks he did a great job with this photo op...er, ah...summit. brush Jun 2018 #7
How can one get a link to that? treestar Jun 2018 #2
He even maanged to malaise Jun 2018 #3
President Obama sagetea Jun 2018 #4
Not sure where you got the "do not salute the enemy" thing... jberryhill Jun 2018 #5
Do not see any prisoner exchange in the Trump video....or Hitler in the picture posted? Fred Sanders Jun 2018 #8
Those soldiers are saluting the enemy jberryhill Jun 2018 #12
Though I don't see anything wrong with the exchange... Orsino Jun 2018 #6
What exchange? During the summit/photo-op salute to the enemy? Did not know that. Fred Sanders Jun 2018 #9
The exchange of salutes. Orsino Jun 2018 #11
I live in Truman's town. Cracklin Charlie Jun 2018 #10

treestar

(82,383 posts)
2. How can one get a link to that?
Thu Jun 14, 2018, 10:05 AM
Jun 2018

I have certain right-wingnuts who must see this! They made a huge deal of Obama bowing and I debated it with them at length!

sagetea

(1,369 posts)
4. President Obama
Thu Jun 14, 2018, 10:08 AM
Jun 2018

Would never do that. President Obama is a Statesman. Flaccid 45, is a joke. A very bad joke. trump and his roaches are exactly who they have always been, tasteless, classless, invertebrates who only believe what they are told to believe by their Fox "news' handlers.

Comparing a Statesmen like Obama to a 'wanna be' dictator like trump is like comparing a rainbow to a hurricane.

sage

 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
5. Not sure where you got the "do not salute the enemy" thing...
Thu Jun 14, 2018, 10:08 AM
Jun 2018

Perhaps you might take a look at this prisoner exchange conducted during an active war:



https://donmooreswartales.com/2010/05/12/harry-glixon/

The officer giving the Hitler salute in the foreground was in charge of the POW exchange for the Germans. Andrew Gerow Hodges, the American Red Cross representative in the dark uniform in the center, set up the prisoner exchange in Brittany in November 1944. Pvt. Harry Glixon of Sarasota, Fla. was a member of the 301st Infantry Regiment, 94th Division of the 3rd Army who was exchanged by the enemy.

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
8. Do not see any prisoner exchange in the Trump video....or Hitler in the picture posted?
Thu Jun 14, 2018, 10:34 AM
Jun 2018

Not clear about the parallel?

 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
12. Those soldiers are saluting the enemy
Thu Jun 14, 2018, 11:01 AM
Jun 2018

And were remarkably not court-martialed. The fact that it was a prisoner exchange does not change the fact that it is a medieval holdover from raising one's visor to show one's face to another similarly armored person, as a signal of non-threat.

This is Obama bowing through the looking glass. It is not going to persuade anyone of anything, nor will it offend or fail to offend anyone in any productive manner. Anyone who didn't like Trump will be offended. Anyone who did like Trump will not be offended. It will simply result in exchanges of pictures of Obama bowing (where that was the appropriate greeting), football players kneeling, Bush stepping on the flag (yeah, he did that), etc..

Orsino

(37,428 posts)
6. Though I don't see anything wrong with the exchange...
Thu Jun 14, 2018, 10:10 AM
Jun 2018

...I agree that Fox & Friends would be drawing up articles of impeachment had it happened to Obama.

Orsino

(37,428 posts)
11. The exchange of salutes.
Thu Jun 14, 2018, 10:49 AM
Jun 2018

Trump was obviously expecting a handshake, but received and returned a salute, then went ahead with the handshake.

Cracklin Charlie

(12,904 posts)
10. I live in Truman's town.
Thu Jun 14, 2018, 10:37 AM
Jun 2018

I’ve been wondering why it was so dang hot here lately.

They say to expect a cooling trend on about the 19th. Give ‘em hell, Harry!

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