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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1 8m8 minutes ago"He's never been interested in going," a former senior White House official said of Trump visiting troops in a combat zone, citing conversations with the president. "He's afraid of those situations. He's afraid people want to kill him." https://t.co/5ACv8CgCJL
President Trump has begun telling advisers that he may visit troops in a combat zone for the first time in his presidency, as he has come under increasing scrutiny for his treatment of military affairs and failure to visit service members deployed to Afghanistan or Iraq.
Trump has so far declined to visit those combat regions, saying he does not want to associate himself with wars he views as failures, according to current and former advisers, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private conversations. Current advisers said Trump is not expected to visit a war zone during the Thanksgiving break, which he will spend at his Mar-a-Lago golf resort in Florida...
In meetings about a potential visit, he has described the missions in Iraq and Afghanistan as a total shame, according to the advisers. He also cited the long flights and potential security risks as reasons he has avoided combat-zone visits, they said...
Trump has spoken privately about his fears over risks to his own life, according to a former senior White House official, who has discussed the issue with the president and spoke on the condition of anonymity to speak candidly about Trumps concerns
Hes never been interested in going, the official said of Trump visiting troops in a combat zone, citing conversations with the president. Hes afraid of those situations. Hes afraid people want to kill him.
read: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/white-house-discusses-possible-trump-visit-to-troops-in-iraq-or-afghanistan/2018/11/19/9f6724d8-ec2a-11e8-96d4-0d23f2aaad09_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.b805536ff781
irisblue
(33,036 posts)🐣🐣🐣🐣🐣🐣
Blue Owl
(50,526 posts)Pansy-ass, wimpy chickenshit...
Jeffersons Ghost
(15,235 posts)Is this correct? #11th reply...
Zorro
(15,749 posts)Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)He doesn't show much faith in our military though.
ooky
(8,930 posts)Our enemies should be delighted he's squatting in our White House and poisoning our country, looting our people, and wasting our resources on his nonsense.
I think he's talking about our military, not the enemy, haha.
And that speaks volumes. Nobody can say that he is/was an ignorant, empty vessel the Republicans corrupted and manipulated, if he has mortal terror of his own troops as a consequence of his own actions, he has comprehensive awereness that he has done things WRONG, or straight up fucking EVIL, because I don't care what anybody says, he's no savant or otherwise mentally challenged individual, that man knows he has indulged the Darkside and like anyone with even half a brain, he's afraid of the inevitable payback.
Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)to shut him up. He has passed his expiry date now.
He's a coward. Remember the tough guy campaign speeches about wanting to punch people out..? Tough guy...POSER.
There have been political icons that stood and delivered speeches knowing they could be hit right in the face w a bullet. Kennedy comes to mind. There'd been murmurings. Others as well, Bobby was always a target and gave brilliant speeches courageously. Martin Luther King especially knew a day or two ahead he was going to be taken a shot at, and he said the "We're all going to the mountaintop, I may not get there with you, but..." pretty sure those AREN'T the right words but the point is, I've seen him give that speech and he bravely persevered. If you're the president you GOD DAMN stand and deliver. You do it for every Soldier, Sailor, Airman and Marine, but also for each of us individually (Each just as important as they, bc these folks have sworn to die for us. As citizens, Americans. Think about that.).
He is a total shameful disgrace. Illegitimate and grifting. Self dealing, russian sympathizer treating himself to the very finest, and insulting Americans daily on his rants.
Fake news my Ass. And bulletin for the peasants (that you KNOW isn't fake either..)...back to the fields and NO healthcare for you, and the roads are SO bad, we've decided to go back to dirt roads...more of that to come.
niyad
(113,600 posts)Lochloosa
(16,072 posts)Leghorn21
(13,527 posts)"I really believe Id run in there even if I didnt have a weapon," Trump told governors meeting at the White House to discuss school safety.
So which is it, ASSHOLE FUCKING PUNK FAUX TOUGH GUY MOBSTER MOTHERFUCKER
safeinOhio
(32,733 posts)....little balls.
riversedge
(70,344 posts)ornotna
(10,807 posts)🐓🐓🐓🐓🐁🐓🐓🐓🐓❄️
mucifer
(23,576 posts)service and the Presidents are supposed to respect the troops.
exxo1111
(55 posts)Obama had real reason to fear assassination-being the first African-American President. Trump should fear the military-he should fear assassination. He deals with people that kill first and ask questions later--and I don't mean the American military. He is very afraid of being poisoned to-and this fear did not start with his Presidency. He's a mobster-like most mobster-he fears being killed by his own kind.
UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)reACTIONary
(5,788 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Surrounded by good guys with guns. What's there to fear?
Oh yeah...
MaryMagdaline
(6,856 posts)The good ones overcome their fears and do their job.
RockRaven
(15,024 posts)I think it is more likely he won't go because he knows he'll feel inadequate and inferior to the people supposedly beneath him.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,169 posts)...or maybe not.
Solly Mack
(90,790 posts)Pathetic. Complete waste of space and oxygen.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Well put.
Solly Mack
(90,790 posts)Reading about IT's email problems and thinking of their hypocrisy and her claiming ignorance about the rules.
I am so tried of them. They're nothing but trash.
reACTIONary
(5,788 posts)...... tell us what you REALY think.
Solly Mack
(90,790 posts)Hekate
(90,858 posts)bdamomma
(63,930 posts)if we shared our true feelings about this POS!
rickford66
(5,528 posts)Yet Trump isn't conflicted about sending them in harms way.
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,811 posts)A LOT I bet.
reACTIONary
(5,788 posts).... Obama got on tge court and played basketball with them,
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)I was stationed at Arif Jan. Zone 1 is an important area with CENTCOM. It has a mall and an olympic size swimming pool.
Camp Arif Jan is a safe place though no one should fear going there.
Sen. Obama addresses servicemembers and civilians during his visit to Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, July 18. Barack Obama 2008 Kuwait 24
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-sen-obama-addresses-servicemembers-and-civilians-during-his-visit-129525199.html?pv=1&stamp=2&imageid=DB83CC80-2DFE-41FC-BF65-83BC6A0105A9&p=370272&n=0&orientation=0&pn=1&searchtype=0&IsFromSearch=1&srch=foo%3dbar%26st%3d0%26pn%3d1%26ps%3d100%26sortby%3d2%26resultview%3dsortbyPopular%26npgs%3d0%26qt%3dcamp%2520arifjan%26qt_raw%3dcamp%2520arifjan%26lic%3d3%26mr%3d0%26pr%3d0%26ot%3d0%26creative%3d%26ag%3d0%26hc%3d0%26pc%3d%26blackwhite%3d%26cutout%3d%26tbar%3d1%26et%3d0x000000000000000000000%26vp%3d0%26loc%3d0%26imgt%3d0%26dtfr%3d%26dtto%3d%26size%3d0xFF%26archive%3d1%26groupid%3d%26pseudoid%3d%26a%3d%26cdid%3d%26cdsrt%3d%26name%3d%26qn%3d%26apalib%3d%26apalic%3d%26lightbox%3d%26gname%3d%26gtype%3d%26xstx%3d0%26simid%3d%26saveQry%3d%26editorial%3d1%26nu%3d%26t%3d%26edoptin%3d%26customgeoip%3d%26cap%3d1%26cbstore%3d1%26vd%3d0%26lb%3d%26fi%3d2%26edrf%3d%26ispremium%3d1%26flip%3d0
I was stationed there July 06 to July 07 in Zone 6. Drove 18,000 miles into Iraq. 88m
reACTIONary
(5,788 posts)Very impressive and thank you for your service!
Jarqui
(10,130 posts)according to the Secret Service
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/5967942/Barack-Obama-faces-30-death-threats-a-day-stretching-US-Secret-Service.html
Since Mr Obama took office, the rate of threats against the president has increased 400 per cent from the 3,000 a year or so under President George W. Bush, according to Ronald Kessler, author of In the President's Secret Service.
I grew up in the 50s-60s. I doubted Obama would survive eight years in office. Pretty tough on Michelle.
But Barack showed up rain or shine in military cemeteries and in iraq & Afghanistan.
Morning Joe had a stat that 24% (159 of 600+ days) of Trump's time in office, he's been at a golf resort. I guess he's really safe from the rain there.
VOX
(22,976 posts)Who? American GIs? What a fucking fragile flower the big man is.
ITS YOUR GODDAMNED JOB, IDIOT.
JDC
(10,135 posts)GusBob
(7,286 posts)Holy Christ motherfucker how do you think the troops feel?
Jesus Fucking Christ I am so angry
Fuck him to hell. Fuck anyone who voted for this piece of shit
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed . . .."
Dwight Eisenhower
irresistable
(989 posts)He knows that McCain is buried there.
Maeve
(42,297 posts)Altho the fact that people are finally calling him a coward indicates they are losing their fear of him--because he's losing power.
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)3catwoman3
(24,058 posts)And it must take at least 2 hours to comb that mess on his head into that sculpted abomination.
bdamomma
(63,930 posts)Christmas trees and having lunch with Pence??? WTF, he needs to go, he has abused the office, country and us.
D23MIURG23
(2,850 posts)YessirAtsaFact
(2,064 posts)nm
Zoonart
(11,886 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,022 posts)Turbineguy
(37,372 posts)Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)There are way more pathetic losers staining our society than you may think.
LuckyLib
(6,821 posts) dont have family or friends or neighbors or colleagues who are Trumpsters its really difficult to imagine how many idiots there are out there.
Doodley
(9,142 posts)Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)world wide wally
(21,756 posts)33taw
(2,448 posts)underpants
(182,942 posts)He must sit there literally thinking the whole world revolves around him.
This goes back to the fast food McD's KFC thing. I thought it was just a stupid campaign thing but apparently he really thinks someone might poison him. That speaks volumes about his mental makeup but it begs the question - Who poisons someone these days? Oh, Russians. Tell.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)CatMor
(6,212 posts)for once he's right.
global1
(25,284 posts)Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)Javaman
(62,534 posts)Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)Doesn't mean they're not out to get you.
Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)I love that one.
AZ8theist
(5,507 posts)His fears are well founded.
YessirAtsaFact
(2,064 posts)Its a side effect of constantly insulting people
Dread Pirate Roberts
(1,897 posts)The fate of all assholes!
dae
(3,396 posts)Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)Good time to get out.
secondwind
(16,903 posts)Quixote1818
(28,988 posts)hibbing
(10,109 posts)Yet he was out among the public, shaking hands, meeting ordinary people. Tiny hands sure talks like a tough guy. All hat and no cattle of course. Concerned about the long flight? Air Force One is a flying hotel.
Peace
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)That's why he was a draft dodger while supporting the war for others to get hurt or killed in. That's why he eats McDonald's burgers, I read. They're prepared ahead of time...not intended for him.
I bet he has a food taster. Really.
bdjhawk
(420 posts)Can you hear Rush Limpballs and FAUX Noise if Obama didnt go to those areas?!!! We would never hear the end of what a coward he was!!! He went there as a Senator then several times as President and Im sure he had much to be worried about in terms of his safety.
Someone needs to come up with a good hashtag to get trending #VisitTheTroopsCoward , #BonespursNotStillAnExcuse or something of that sort and get it out there to put pressure on him.
Typical bully......all blowhard talk but a yellow coward underneath.
area51
(11,927 posts)Delusions from his dementia? 25th amendment his ass.
keithbvadu2
(36,949 posts)Gothmog
(145,654 posts)Retrograde
(10,163 posts)FDR made a couple of overseas trips during a world war to meet with allies. Eisenhower went to Korea. Bush 2 and Obama visited troops in the Middle East.
Trump thinks active military are just props for his ego
ChazInAz
(2,573 posts)Do you think he's smart enough to remember anything from his history classes?
Like what happened to Caligula?
Hekate
(90,858 posts)Control-Z
(15,682 posts)here in the states. I'm sure there are at least a few people on the left who are as crazy as those on the right.
Poor guy. Must be scared shitless most of the time.
tavernier
(12,409 posts)Golf. Rah Rah speech to the skin heads and half wits.
Otherwise its too cold , too rainy, too busy.
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)The Bard nails it...
Hassler
(3,392 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)BlueStater
(7,596 posts)I don't know why, but you wanted this job and now you've got it. If you're incapable of fulfilling the duties you were elected to, feel free to resign at any time.
treestar
(82,383 posts)with President Obama for going. Or at least, the Orange Idiot should be. His viewing the war as a "failure" is no excuse at all.
lindysalsagal
(20,746 posts)I usually cringe when troops are used as stage backdrop for nasty politicians.
lindysalsagal
(20,746 posts)It's selective detachment....
Fullduplexxx
(7,872 posts)Vinca
(50,318 posts)pwb
(11,292 posts)Gothmog
(145,654 posts)bdamomma
(63,930 posts)coward.
BadGimp
(4,019 posts)... having to stand next to and be in the company of real men and women of valor who have and do show real courage. They are the true leaders and defenders of Democracy and he is, of course, the opposite.
Doing so causes him to reflect on how much of a total human fraud he really is and that pain from self-reflection is too much for the tender Toddler In Chief to bare.
Just my opinion, however.