Big guys with tattoos who never cry are going to walk up to Trump with tears in their eyes and say, "Sir! Thank you for super obliterating the RADICAL Iran even though they were obliterated a couple months ago and have no army or navy or air force, sir! You killed them like dogs, sir!" They really say that—can you believe it? Many people are saying it. Tremendous people with beautiful words.
What do you think is going to happen? This is about optics for the WH/DoD and really has little to do with the service members or their families. Their benefits are directly tied to line-of-duty status and cause of death, NOT whether they're counted in a specific campaign's casualty statistics.
Exactly. That's all this nonenense is...trying to make Mr. Tiny Ego look better.
so you think this Iran "excursions" and the constant, "war will be over shortly","we've obliterated their navy an air force" makes trump look good? I'll agree that only true trump believers put stock in these statements anymore.
Look, why do you keep trying to ascribe traits like honor and decency to anything Trump says or does?Look, I don't necessarily disagree w/ what you posted...I'm just looking at it objectively. IMO this is likely someone in the admin/DoD manipulating data points. I doubt Trump personally woke up and thought, "How can I screw families of these four servicemembers?" NOt sure what purpose that would serve...politically or for his ego.
My guess is this is some last ditch effort to improve the optics of the conflict (if that's even possible). Fewer officially counted war casualties looks better to the public than more. That doesn't make it right, but it's a very different than intentionally targeting Gold Star families. Now, if later we find out families are actually being denied benefits or honors because of this, we can have a raise hell thread then.
Groups that have always let him down. Always disloyal. Very mouthy. Low IQ types.
Again, him actively meddling in denying family members benefits really doesn't serve his ego. Like I said above, they'll be listed as KIA and be entitled to benefits unless the DoD comes out with some weird storyline that all four were traitors or something. If this were Vegas odds, I'd go with 95/5 that the families receive every benefit they're entitled to, and 5/95 that Trump is personally trying to screw over the families.
You'll get no arguement from me.He's a bottomless hole of narcissism.
Just so that they look better this fall because the official death toll is lower.
Nope, I just think that at this point the Trumpians on here just don't give a **** anymore. They are 100% behind Trump. So when Trump tells them the Iranian navy/airforce is completely destroyed, they TOTALLY believe him. Just like they believed him the previous 10 times he said it. There's no logical reasoning behind it. The GOP has all kinds of principles (EXCEPT for when it involves Trump). The bottom line here is that there's NOTHING Trump can do that will shake that support. Remember when the GOP was going NUTS over Hunter Biden's position on foreign boards and getting paid big money for it by said foreign companies. UNETHICAL!! But Jared gets 2 BILLION in foreign investment after leading the US government's efforts into peace in the middle east? Crickets. Don Jr. and Erik's company is getting no bid contracts from the DOD? Crickets.
