Cadet Bone Spurs, aka Donald Epstein (oops) Trump thinks he’s a bigly brave badass. Because like Biden, Obama and even Hillary Clinton he was a passenger on a plane that flew into a country where a war was going on. Clinton did so as SecState more than once and on at least one time the airfield got attacked just before her plane was in the approach corridor. Yet she deplaned with snipers on the mountain who might have tried to shoot her. Still, Trump says HE exposed himself to ‘great danger’, so much so that by god HE deserves the Medal of Honor. (take a moment to fight down the urge to puke as I had to do)
When Presidents fly into trouble spots extraordinary lengths are taken both on the ground and in the air to keep the approach corridor free of gomers who might try to pop an anti-air missile. Plus the crew is trained to deal with losing an engine in such circumstances and it takes more than one or two shoulder-fired anti-air missiles to take down a 747 which has an enviable record of durability and NOT crashing. Take a look at the title picture. I looked and looked but couldn’t find the one of Trump and Kelly at the grave of Kelly’s son. The one where Trump gestured and said “I don’t get it. What was in it for them” This jarhead will never, ever forgive Kelly for NOT hauling off and knocking Trump on his fat orange ass, saying I quit and dragging Trump off those hallowed grounds.
To Trump, all of us who served have been “suckers and losers”, and those who gave up limbs or even their lives in the service of this country even more so. Remember how when someone pointed out the heroism the late John McCain demonstrated as a P.O.W.? Trump smirked that he preferred guys who didn’t get shot down. His fat ass couldn’t be squeezed into a fighter or attack jet but even a catapult launch on a COD (a prop plane that carries passengers and cargo – they are the busiest planes in the fleet in fact) and then a ‘trap’ carrier landing and that sudden jerk to a stop when it catches a wire) would have Trump sh*tting his Depends. He’d faint if he were forced to watch jets take off and land!
Trump doesn’t (and never has) respected anyone who served in the armed forces. Given his own COWARDICE during Vietnam Trump probably resents anyone who did what he never had the guts to do. I don’t know if it was true, but I recall while on active duty looking at pictures of Medal of Honor recipients in a hall. I commented that almost every enlisted guy was awarded his medal posthumously and a Sgt. Major saying an enlisted guy would have to do something 90% likely to result in his death. Not that Officers didn’t have to take batshit insane risks too however.
That’s why I lost it when I saw the headline of this article from The Mirror US. I though The Onion had posted something in really bad taste. But no, Trump thinks because he was a passenger on a plane that had protection beyond all measure he’s heroic. And in his effed up mind WAY more deserving of our nation’s highest military award than anyone who’s ever gotten it. (Especially the dead ones who gave their lives so others in their units could live) (Again, take a moment to fight down the puke rising in your throat)
Yes, Trump says he wants to ‘test the law’ by giving himself the Medal of Honor. His Thursday visit to Rome, Georgia was supposed to be about the midterms and promising all of his economic nonsense was working out fantastically. And that ‘soon’ the folks in the audience would feel it. Of course, being Trump he rambled off topic and boy did he roam into a field of turds by claiming his ‘bravery’ warranted him getting the Medal of Honor:
“I flew to Iraq. I was extremely brave. So brave I wanted to give myself the Congressional Medal of Honor … someday I’m gonna try. I’ll test the law,” he told the crowd. President Trump seemed to be referring to his trip to a U.S airbase in Al Asad Iraq during his first term in 2018.
Think I’m kidding? See for yourself:
Trump: "I flew to Iraq. I was extremely brave. So brave I wanted to give myself the Congressional Medal of Honor … someday I'm gonna try. I'll test the law." pic.twitter.com/Fk3VBaJikf
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 19, 2026
Remember this orange hued asshat is a CHICKEN HAWK. He got tired of having to get draft deferments during Vietnam so daddy bribed a doctor to send a letter saying Widdle Donnie Wonnie had bone spurs. As Trump himself would say HUGE bone spurs that magically appeared. ‘No one’s ever seen such bone spurs as HE had.’ You know, in a way he was telling the truth because no one actually did see his magic (they went away as soon as he got designated 4-F) bonespurs including the doctor who wrote the letter.
Trump is a f**king COWARD. Always has been. One of the few times he ever paid attention to a military person briefing him was when some poor officer had to spend at least an hour detailing all the precautions taken for that flight. I can only imagine the dumbass questions Trump came up with but I know this: If Trump didn’t believe he was safe as a baby in a mother’s arms he’d have never made that trip.
Contrast that to President Biden’s trip deep into Ukraine. They snuck him onto a train in Poland for an hours long ride to meet with Zelensky. THAT friends was real risk. I’m sure his Secret Service detail and military officers coordinating with Ukraine still have nightmares about the risks BIDEN took. Imagine if the rest of NATO told Trump f**k off and joined with Ukraine to help them push deep into Russia. It would be tough to be sure and having complete control of any area would take years. But imagine Ukraine/NATO forces had units operating well EAST of Moscow, and Putin trying to get his puppet Trump to visit. Is there ANYONE (yes, that means you Mark because I know you’re reading this) who believes Trump would risk a flight into Moscow, or a train ride from Belarus?
Well, this is as vile and insulting to all those who have served as Trump has ever been. He’s already got historically low approval for a Republican with our armed forces. Somehow I don’t think this will make it better. Maybe that’s why Trump seems eager to start a war. Someone might earn the Medal of Honor and Trump would insist on personally presenting it at the WH. But instead of hanging around the neck of the hero he’d say HE has deserved one for years. Grab it tight in his little hands and waddle away as fast as he can telling the Secret Service to get him to the residence using any force needed.
I don’t see myself sleeping much tonight. I’m more pissed off and angry than I’ve been in a long time. Since I doubt any Congressional Republicans will push back on this tomorrow it’s going to be a bad weekend.
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And he was completely serious when he said it. If intergalactic explorers discover this video clip in the far future, they’ll refuse to believe it was anything but an unfunny joke. No doubt about it: Donald Trump has now jumped the shark. Then again, maybe hurtling a shark would be heroic enough to earn that Medal of Honor…
“Is there ANYONE (yes, that means you Mark because I know you’re reading this) who believes Trump would risk a flight into Moscow, or a train ride from Belarus?”
Well, if Master Vladimir ORDERED Drumpf to appear before him in Moscow–even with the Kremlin being subjected to same shelling Vlad has ordered against Ukrainian cities–yeah, I believe Drumpf would do it. The problem is that, in such a situation, Drumpf wouldn’t have to fly to Belarus and take the train to Moscow; as “President,” he could simply order the flight to travel over Siberia–probably making a stop in Vladivostok or Khabarovsk and then flying west to Moscow.
ON THE OTHER HAND, I wouldn’t put it past Putin to make that order deliberately to create an absolute break between NATO and the US. I can’t believe any NATO military operation would proceed (maybe not even in a defensive capacity) knowing that the American “president” is traveling through a potentially active war zone. If the war were to be going absolutely against Putin, I imagine he WOULD demand Drumpf appear in Moscow (with Drumpf making a show that it’s *HIS* decision to go–in the “interests of peace,” of course) which would mean either NATO/Ukraine operations stop (and letting them sit for ANY Russian offensive) or risk Drumpf being shot down by NATO/Ukraine forces (which would, more likely, be perpetrated by the Russians under direct orders from Putin; sacrificing Drumpf to get the US out of NATO for good would be worth it in Vlad’s view).
This speech was an unqualified disaster. His face looked like it had been swabbed down with used engine oil and the tiny crowd squirmed in their seats as he slurred though some of his greatest hits of 2015. Besides the Medal of Honor shtick, which bombed, he went on and on about not going to Heaven. He seems preoccupied with his own demise. I’m fully convinced it will come soon, and from the stony silence of the gathering, they do too.
Wouldn’t that be a relief to all of us?