Natalie Khawam, the family’s attorney, responded, “I think the military will be paying—taking care of it.” Trump replied, “Good. They’ll do a military. That’s good. If you need help, I’ll help you out.” Later, a reporter covering the meeting asked Trump, “Have you offered to do that for other families before?” Trump responded, “I have. I have. Personally. I have to do it personally. I can’t do it through government.” The reporter then asked: “So you’ve written checks to help for other families before this?” Trump turned to the family, still present, and said, “I have, I have, because some families need help … Maybe you don’t need help, from a financial standpoint. I have no idea what—I just think it’s a horrific thing that happened. And if you did need help, I’m going to—I’ll be there to help you.”

A public memorial service was held in Houston two weeks after the White House meeting. It was followed by a private funeral and burial in a local cemetery, attended by, among others, the mayor of Houston and the city’s police chief. Highways were shut down, and mourners lined the streets.

Five months later, the secretary of the Army, Ryan McCarthy, announced the results of an investigation. McCarthy cited numerous “leadership failures” at Fort Hood and relieved or suspended several officers, including the base’s commanding general. In a press conference, McCarthy said that the murder “shocked our conscience” and “forced us to take a critical look at our systems, our policies, and ourselves.”

According to a person close to Trump at the time, the president was agitated by McCarthy’s comments and raised questions about the severity of the punishments dispensed to senior officers and noncommissioned officers.

In an Oval Office meeting on December 4, 2020, officials gathered to discuss a separate national-security issue. Toward the end of the discussion, Trump asked for an update on the McCarthy investigation. Christopher Miller, the acting secretary of defense (Trump had fired his predecessor, Mark Esper, three weeks earlier, writing in a tweet, “Mark Esper has been terminated”), was in attendance, along with Miller’s chief of staff, Kash Patel. At a certain point, according to two people present at the meeting, Trump asked, “Did they bill us for the funeral? What did it cost?”

According to attendees, and to contemporaneous notes of the meeting taken by a participant, an aide answered: Yes, we received a bill; the funeral cost $60,000.

Trump became angry. “It doesn’t cost 60,000 bucks to bury a fucking Mexican!” He turned to his chief of staff, Mark Meadows, and issued an order: “Don’t pay it!” Later that day, he was still agitated. “Can you believe it?” he said, according to a witness. “Fucking people, trying to rip me off.”

Khawam, the family attorney, told me she sent the bill to the White House, but no money was ever received by the family from Trump. Some of the costs, Khawam said, were covered by the Army (which offered, she said, to allow Guillén to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery) and some were covered by donations. Ultimately, Guillén was buried in Houston.

Shortly after I emailed a series of questions to a Trump spokesperson, Alex Pfeiffer, I received an email from Khawam, who asked me to publish a statement from Mayra Guillén, Vanessa’s sister. Pfeiffer then emailed me the same statement. “I am beyond grateful for all the support President Donald Trump showed our family during a trying time,” the statement reads. “I witnessed firsthand how President Trump honors our nation’s heroes’ service. We are grateful for everything he has done and continues to do to support our troops.”

Pfeiffer told me that he did not write that statement, and emailed me a series of denials. Regarding Trump’s “fucking Mexican” comment, Pfeiffer wrote: “President Donald Trump never said that. This is an outrageous lie from The Atlantic two weeks before the election.” He provided statements from Patel and a spokesman for Meadows, who denied having heard Trump make the statement. Via Pfeiffer, Meadows’s spokesman also denied that Trump had ordered Meadows not to pay for the funeral.

The statement from Patel that Pfeiffer sent me said: “As someone who was present in the room with President Trump, he strongly urged that Spc. Vanessa Guillen’s grieving family should not have to bear the cost of any funeral arrangements, even offering to personally pay himself in order to honor her life and sacrifice. In addition, President Trump was able to have the Department of Defense designate her death as occurring ‘in the line of duty,’ which gave her full military honors and provided her family access to benefits, services, and complete financial assistance.”

The personal qualities displayed by Trump in his reaction to the cost of the Guillén funeral—contempt, rage, parsimony, racism—hardly surprised his inner circle. Trump has frequently voiced his disdain for those who serve in the military and for their devotion to duty, honor, and sacrifice. Former generals who have worked for Trump say that the sole military virtue he prizes is obedience. As his presidency drew to a close, and in the years since, he has become more and more interested in the advantages of dictatorship, and the absolute control over the military that he believes it would deliver. “I need the kind of generals that Hitler had,” Trump said in a private conversation in the White House, according to two people who heard him say this. “People who were totally loyal to him, that follow orders.” (“This is absolutely false,” Pfeiffer wrote in an email. “President Trump never said this.”)

A desire to force U.S. military leaders to be obedient to him and not the Constitution is one of the constant themes of Trump’s military-related discourse. Former officials have also cited other recurring themes: his denigration of military service, his ignorance of the provisions of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, his admiration for brutality and anti-democratic norms of behavior, and his contempt for wounded veterans and for soldiers who fell in battle.

Retired General Barry McCaffrey, a decorated Vietnam veteran, told me that Trump does not comprehend such traditional military virtues as honor and self-sacrifice. “The military is a foreign country to him. He doesn’t understand the customs or codes,” McCaffrey said. “It doesn’t penetrate. It starts with the fact that he thinks it’s foolish to do anything that doesn’t directly benefit himself.”

I’ve been interested in Trump’s understanding of military affairs for nearly a decade. At first, it was cognitive dissonance that drew me to the subject—according to my previous understanding of American political physics, Trump’s disparagement of the military, and in particular his obsessive criticism of the war record of the late Senator John McCain, should have profoundly alienated Republican voters, if not Americans generally. And in part my interest grew from the absolute novelty of Trump’s thinking. This country had never seen, to the best of my knowledge, a national political figure who insulted veterans, wounded warriors, and the fallen with metronomic regularity.

Today—two weeks before an election that could see Trump return to the White House—I’m most interested in his evident desire to wield military power, and power over the military, in the manner of Hitler and other dictators.

Trump’s singularly corrosive approach to military tradition was in evidence as recently as August, when he described the Medal of Honor, the nation’s top award for heroism and selflessness in combat, as inferior to the Medal of Freedom, which is awarded to civilians for career achievement. During a campaign speech, he described Medal of Honor recipients as “either in very bad shape because they’ve been hit so many times by bullets or they’re dead,” prompting the Veterans of Foreign Wars to issue a condemnation: “These asinine comments not only diminish the significance of our nation’s highest award for valor, but also crassly characterizes the sacrifices of those who have risked their lives above and beyond the call of duty.” Later in August, Trump caused controversy by violating federal regulations prohibiting the politicization of military cemeteries, after a campaign visit to Arlington in which he gave a smiling thumbs-up while standing behind gravestones of fallen American soldiers.

His Medal of Honor comments are of a piece with his expressed desire to receive a Purple Heart without being wounded. He has also equated business success to battlefield heroism. In the summer of 2016, Khizr Khan, the father of a 27-year-old Army captain who had been killed in Iraq, told the Democratic National Convention that Trump has “sacrificed nothing.” In response, Trump disparaged the Khan family and said, “I think I’ve made a lot of sacrifices. I work very, very hard. I’ve created thousands and thousands of jobs, tens of thousands of jobs, built great structures.”

One former Trump-administration Cabinet secretary told me of a conversation he’d had with Trump during his time in office about the Vietnam War. Trump famously escaped the draft by claiming that his feet were afflicted with bone spurs. (“I had a doctor that gave me a letter—a very strong letter on the heels,” Trump told The New York Times in 2016.) Once, when the subject of aging Vietnam veterans came up in conversation, Trump offered this observation to the Cabinet official: “Vietnam would have been a waste of time for me. Only suckers went to Vietnam.”

In 1997, Trump told the radio host Howard Stern that avoiding sexually transmitted diseases was “my personal Vietnam. I feel like a great and very brave soldier.” This was not the only time Trump has compared his sexual exploits and political challenges to military service. Last year, at a speech before a group of New York Republicans, while discussing the fallout from the release of the Access Hollywood tape, he said, “I went onto that (debate) stage just a few days later and a general, who’s a fantastic general, actually said to me, ‘Sir, I’ve been on the battlefield. Men have gone down on my left and on my right. I stood on hills where soldiers were killed. But I believe the bravest thing I’ve ever seen was the night you went onto that stage with Hillary Clinton after what happened.’” I asked Trump-campaign officials to provide the name of the general who allegedly said this. Pfeiffer, the campaign spokesman, said, “This is a true story and there is no good reason to give the name of an honorable man to The Atlantic so you can smear him.”

In their book, The Divider: Trump in the White House, Peter Baker and Susan Glasser reported that Trump asked John Kelly, his chief of staff at the time, “Why can’t you be like the German generals?” Trump, at various points, had grown frustrated with military officials he deemed disloyal and disobedient. (Throughout the course of his presidency, Trump referred to flag officers as “my generals.”) According to Baker and Glasser, Kelly explained to Trump that German generals “tried to kill Hitler three times and almost pulled it off.” This correction did not move Trump to reconsider his view: “No, no, no, they were totally loyal to him,” the president responded.

This week, I asked Kelly about their exchange. He told me that when Trump raised the subject of “German generals,” Kelly responded by asking, “‘Do you mean Bismarck’s generals?’” He went on: “I mean, I knew he didn’t know who Bismarck was, or about the Franco-Prussian War. I said, ‘Do you mean the kaiser’s generals? Surely you can’t mean Hitler’s generals? And he said, ‘Yeah, yeah, Hitler’s generals.’ I explained to him that Rommel had to commit suicide after taking part in a plot against Hitler.” Kelly told me Trump was not acquainted with Rommel.

Baker and Glasser also reported that Mark Milley, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, feared that Trump’s “‘Hitler-like’ embrace of the big lie about the election would prompt the president to seek out a ‘Reichstag moment.’”

Kelly—a retired Marine general who, as a young man, had volunteered to serve in Vietnam despite actually suffering from bone spurs—said in an interview for the CNN reporter Jim Sciutto’s book, The Return of Great Powers, that Trump praised aspects of Hitler’s leadership. “He said, ‘Well, but Hitler did some good things,’” Kelly recalled. “I said, ‘Well, what?’ And he said, ‘Well, (Hitler) rebuilt the economy.’ But what did he do with that rebuilt economy? He turned it against his own people and against the world.” Kelly admonished Trump: “I said, ‘Sir, you can never say anything good about the guy. Nothing.’”

This wasn’t the only time Kelly felt compelled to instruct Trump on military history. In 2018, Trump asked Kelly to explain who “the good guys” were in World War I. Kelly responded by explaining a simple rule: Presidents should, as a matter of politics and policy, remember that the “good guys” in any given conflict are the countries allied with the United States. Despite Trump’s lack of historical knowledge, he has been on record as saying that he knew more than his generals about warfare. He told 60 Minutes in 2018 that he knew more about NATO than James Mattis, his secretary of defense at the time, a retired four-star Marine general who had served as a NATO official. Trump also said, on a separate occasion, that it was he, not Mattis, who had “captured” the Islamic State.

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As president, Trump evinced extreme sensitivity to criticism from retired flag officers; at one point, he proposed calling back to active duty Admiral William McRaven and General Stanley McChrystal, two highly regarded Special Operations leaders who had become critical of Trump, so that they could be court-martialed. Esper, who was the defense secretary at the time, wrote in his memoir that he and Milley talked Trump out of the plan. (Asked about criticism from McRaven, who oversaw the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, Trump responded by calling him a “Hillary Clinton backer and an Obama backer” and said, “Wouldn’t it have been nice if we got Osama bin Laden a lot sooner than that?”)

Trump has responded incredulously when told that American military personnel swear an oath to the Constitution, not to the president. According to the New York Times reporter Michael S. Schmidt’s recent book, Donald Trump v. the United States, Trump asked Kelly, “Do you really believe you’re not loyal to me?” Kelly answered, “I’m certainly part of the administration, but my ultimate loyalty is to the rule of law.” Trump also publicly floated the idea of “termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution,” as part of the effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election and keep himself in power.

On separate occasions in 2020, Trump held private conversations in the White House with national-security officials about the George Floyd protests. “The Chinese generals would know what to do,” he said, according to former officials who described the conversations to me, referring to the leaders of the People’s Liberation Army, which carried out the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. (Pfeiffer denied that Trump said this.) Trump’s desire to deploy U.S. troops against American citizens is well documented. During the nerve-racking period of social unrest following Floyd’s death, Trump asked Milley and Esper, a West Point graduate and former infantry officer, if the Army could shoot protesters. “Trump seemed unable to think straight and calmly,” Esper wrote in his memoir. “The protests and violence had him so enraged that he was willing to send in active-duty forces to put down the protesters. Worse yet, he suggested we shoot them. I wondered about his sense of history, of propriety, and of his oath to the Constitution.” Esper told National Public Radio in 2022, “We reached that point in the conversation where he looked frankly at General Milley, and said, ‘Can’t you just shoot them, just shoot them in the legs or something?’” When defense officials argued against Trump’s desire, the president screamed, according to witnesses, “You are all fucking losers!”

Trump has often expressed his esteem for the type of power wielded by such autocrats as the Chinese leader Xi Jinping; his admiration, even jealousy, of Vladimir Putin is well known. In recent days, he has signaled that, should he win reelection in November, he would like to govern in the manner of these dictators—he has said explicitly that he would like to be a dictator for a day on his first day back in the White House—and he has threatened to, among other things, unleash the military on “radical-left lunatics.” (One of his four former national security advisers, John Bolton, wrote in his memoir, “It is a close contest between Putin and Xi Jinping who would be happiest to see Trump back in office.”)

Military leaders have condemned Trump for possessing autocratic tendencies. At his retirement ceremony last year, Milley said, “We don’t take an oath to a king, or a queen, or to a tyrant or dictator, and we don’t take an oath to a wannabe dictator … We take an oath to the Constitution, and we take an oath to the idea that is America, and we’re willing to die to protect it.” Over the past several years, Milley has privately told several interlocutors that he believed Trump to be a fascist. Many other leaders have also been shocked by Trump’s desire for revenge against his domestic critics. At the height of the Floyd protests, Mattis wrote, “When I joined the military, some 50 years ago, I swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution. Never did I dream that troops taking that same oath would be ordered under any circumstance to violate the Constitutional rights of their fellow citizens.”

Trump’s frustration with American military leaders led him to disparage them regularly. In their book A Very Stable Genius, Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker, both of The Washington Post, reported that in 2017, during a meeting at the Pentagon, Trump screamed at a group of generals: “I wouldn’t go to war with you people. You’re a bunch of dopes and babies.” And in his book Rage, Bob Woodward reported that Trump complained that “my fucking generals are a bunch of pussies. They care more about their alliances than they do about trade deals.”

Trump’s disdain for American military officers is motivated in part by their willingness to accept low salaries. Once, after a White House briefing given by the then-chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Joseph Dunford, Trump said to aides, “That guy is smart. Why did he join the military?” (On another occasion, John Kelly asked Trump to guess Dunford’s annual salary. The president’s answer: $5 million. Dunford’s actual salary was less than $200,000.)

Trump has often expressed his love for the trappings of martial power, demanding of his aides that they stage the sort of armor-heavy parades foreign to American tradition. Civilian aides and generals alike pushed back. In one instance, Air Force General Paul Selva, who was then serving as vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the president that he had been partially raised in Portugal, which, he explained, “was a dictatorship—and parades were about showing the people who had the guns. In America, we don’t do that. It’s not who we are.”

For Republicans in 2012, it was John McCain who served as a model of “who we are.” But by 2015, the party had shifted. In July of that year, Trump, then one of several candidates for the Republican presidential nomination, made a statement that should have ended his campaign. At a forum for Christian conservatives in Iowa, Trump said of McCain, “He’s not a war hero. He is a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.”

It was an astonishing statement, and an introduction to the wider public of Trump’s uniquely corrosive view of McCain, and of his aberrant understanding of the nature of American military heroism. This wasn’t the first time Trump had insulted McCain’s war record. As early as 1999, he was insulting McCain. In an interview with Dan Rather that year, Trump asked, “Does being captured make you a hero? I don’t know. I’m not sure.” (A brief primer: McCain, who had flown 22 combat missions before being shot down over Hanoi, was tortured almost continuously by his Communist captors, and turned down repeated offers to be released early, insisting that prisoners be released in the order that they’d been captured. McCain suffered physically from his injuries until his death, in 2018.) McCain partisans believe, with justification, that Trump’s loathing was prompted in part by McCain’s ability to see through Trump. “John didn’t respect him, and Trump knew that,” Mark Salter, McCain’s longtime aide and co-author, told me. “John McCain had a code. Trump only has grievances and impulses and appetites. In the deep recesses of his man-child soul, he knew that McCain and his achievements made him look like a mutt.”

Trump, those who have worked for him say, is unable to understand the military norm that one does not leave fellow soldiers behind on the battlefield. As president, Trump told senior advisers that he didn’t understand why the U.S. government placed such value on finding soldiers missing in action. To him, they could be left behind, because they had performed poorly by getting captured.

My reporting during Trump’s term in office led me to publish on this site, in September 2020, an article about Trump’s attitudes toward McCain and other veterans, and his views about the ideal of national service itself. The story was based on interviews with multiple sources who had firsthand exposure to Trump and his views. In that piece, I detailed numerous instances of Trump insulting soldiers, flag officers and veterans alike. I wrote extensively about Trump’s reaction to McCain’s death in August 2018: The president told aides, “We’re not going to support that loser’s funeral,” and he was infuriated when he saw flags at the White House lowered to half-mast. “What the fuck are we doing that for? Guy was a fucking loser,” he said angrily. Only when Kelly told Trump that he would get “killed in the press” for showing such disrespect did the president relent. In the article, I also reported that Trump had disparaged President George H. W. Bush, a World War II naval aviator, for getting shot down by the Japanese. Two witnesses told me that Trump said, “I don’t get it. Getting shot down makes you a loser.” (Bush ultimately evaded capture, but eight other fliers were caught and executed by the Japanese).

The next year, White House officials demanded that the Navy keep the U.S.S. John S. McCain, which was named for McCain’s father and grandfather—both esteemed admirals—out of Trump’s sight during a visit to Japan. The Navy did not comply.

Trump’s preoccupation with McCain has not abated. In January, Trump condemned McCain—six years after his death—for having supported President Barack Obama’s health-care plan. “We’re going to fight for much better health care than Obamacare,” Trump told an Iowa crowd. “Obamacare is a catastrophe. Nobody talks about it. You know, without John McCain, we would have had it done. John McCain for some reason couldn’t get his arm up that day. Remember?” This was, it appears, a malicious reference to McCain’s wartime injuries—including injuries suffered during torture—which limited his upper-body mobility.

I’ve also previously reported on Trump’s 2017 Memorial Day visit to Arlington National Cemetery. Kelly, who was then the secretary of homeland security, accompanied him. The two men visited Section 60, the 14-acre section that is the burial ground for those killed in America’s most recent wars (and the site of Trump’s Arlington controversy earlier this year). Kelly’s son Robert, a Marine officer killed in 2010 in Afghanistan, is buried in Section 60. Trump, while standing by Robert Kelly’s grave, turned to his father and said, “I don’t get it. What was in it for them?” At first, Kelly believed that Trump was making a reference to the selflessness of America’s all-volunteer force. But later he came to realize that Trump simply does not understand nontransactional life choices. I quoted one of Kelly’s friends, a fellow retired four-star general, who said of Trump, “He can’t fathom the idea of doing something for someone other than himself. He just thinks that anyone who does anything when there’s no direct personal gain to be had is a sucker.” At moments when Kelly was feeling particularly frustrated by Trump, he would leave the White House and cross the Potomac to visit his son’s grave, in part to remind himself about the nature of full-measure sacrifice.

Last year Kelly told me, in reference to Mark Milley’s 44 years in uniform, “The president couldn’t fathom people who served their nation honorably.”

The specific incident I reported in the 2020 article that gained the most attention also provided the story with its headline—“Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are ‘Losers’ and ‘Suckers.’” The story concerned a visit Trump made to France in 2018, during which the president called Americans buried in a World War I cemetery “losers.” He said, in the presence of aides, “Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.” At another moment during this trip, he referred to the more than 1,800 Marines who had lost their lives at Belleau Wood as “suckers” for dying for their country.

Trump had already been scheduled to visit one cemetery, and he did not understand why his team was scheduling a second cemetery visit, especially considering that the rain would be hard on his hair. “Why two cemeteries?” Trump asked. “What the fuck?” Kelly subsequently canceled the second visit, and attended a ceremony there himself with General Dunford and their wives.

The article sparked great controversy, and provoked an irate reaction from the Trump administration, and from Trump himself. In tweets, statements, and press conferences in the days, weeks, and years that followed, Trump labeled The Atlantic a “second-rate magazine,” a “failing magazine,” a “terrible magazine,” and a “third-rate magazine that’s not going to be in business much longer”; he also referred to me as a “con man,” among other things. Trump has continued these attacks recently, calling me a “horrible, radical-left lunatic named Goldberg” at a rally this summer.

The article sparked great controversy, and provoked an irate reaction from the Trump administration, and from Trump himself. In tweets, statements, and press conferences in the days, weeks, and years that followed, Trump labeled The Atlantic a “second-rate magazine,” a “failing magazine,” a “terrible magazine,” and a “third-rate magazine that’s not going to be in business much longer”; he also referred to me as a “con man,” among other things. Trump has continued these attacks recently, calling me a “horrible, radical-left lunatic named Goldberg” at a rally this summer.

In the days after my original article was published, both the Associated Press and, notably, Fox News, confirmed the story, causing Trump to demand that Fox fire Jennifer Griffin, its experienced and well-regarded defense reporter. A statement issued by Alyssa Farah, a White House spokesperson, soon after publication read, “This report is false. President Trump holds the military in the highest regard.”

Shortly after the story appeared, Farah asked numerous White House officials if they had heard Trump refer to veterans and war dead as suckers or losers. She reported publicly that none of the officials she asked had heard him use these terms. Eventually, Farah came out in opposition to Trump. She wrote on X last year that she’d asked the president if my story was true. “Trump told me it was false. That was a lie.”

When I spoke to Farah, who is now known as Alyssa Farah Griffin, this week, she said, “I understood that people were skeptical about the ‘suckers and losers’ story, and I was in the White House pushing back against it. But he said this to John Kelly’s face, and I fundamentally, absolutely believe that John Kelly is an honorable man who served our country and who loves and respects our troops. I’ve heard Donald Trump speak in a dehumanizing way about so many groups. After working for him in 2020 and hearing his continuous attacks on service members since that time, including my former boss General Mark Milley, I firmly and unequivocally believe General Kelly’s account.”

(Pfeiffer, the Trump spokesperson, said, in response, “Alyssa is a scorned former employee now lying in her pursuit to chase liberal adulation. President Trump would never insult our nation’s heroes.”)

Last year, I published a story in this magazine about Milley that coincided with the end of his four-year term. In it, I detailed his tumultuous relationship with Trump. Milley had resisted Trump’s autocratic urges, and also argued against his many thoughtless and impetuous national-security impulses. Shortly after that story appeared, Trump publicly suggested that Milley be executed for treason. This astonishing statement caused John Kelly to speak publicly about Trump and his relationship to the military. Kelly, who had previously called Trump “the most flawed person I have ever met in my life,” told CNN’s Jake Tapper that Trump had referred to American prisoners of war as “suckers” and described as “losers” soldiers who died while fighting for their country.

“What can I add that has not already been said?” Kelly asked. “A person that thinks those who defend their country in uniform, or are shot down or seriously wounded in combat, or spend years being tortured as POWs, are all ‘suckers’ because ‘there is nothing in it for them.’ A person that did not want to be seen in the presence of military amputees because ‘it doesn’t look good for me.’ A person who demonstrated open contempt for a Gold Star family—for all Gold Star families—on TV during the 2016 campaign, and rants that our most precious heroes who gave their lives in America’s defense are ‘losers’ and wouldn’t visit their graves in France.”

When we spoke this week, Kelly told me, “President Trump used the terms suckers and losers to describe soldiers who gave their lives in the defense of our country. There are many, many people who have heard him say these things. The visit to France wasn’t the first time he said this.”

Kelly and others have taken special note of the revulsion Trump feels in the presence of wounded veterans. After Trump attended a Bastille Day parade in France, he told Kelly and others that he would like to stage his own parade in Washington, but without the presence of wounded veterans. “I don’t want them,” Trump said. “It doesn’t look good for me.”

Milley also witnessed Trump’s disdain for the wounded. Milley had chosen a severely wounded Army captain, Luis Avila, to sing “God Bless America” at his installation ceremony in 2019. Avila, who had completed five combat tours, had lost a leg in an improvised-explosive-device attack in Afghanistan, and had suffered two heart attacks, two strokes, and brain damage as a result of his injuries. Avila is considered a hero up and down the ranks of the Army.

It had rained earlier on the day of the ceremony, and the ground was soft; at one point Avila’s wheelchair almost toppled over. Milley’s wife, Hollyanne, ran to help Avila, as did then–Vice President Mike Pence. After Avila’s performance, Trump walked over to congratulate him, but then said to Milley, within earshot of several witnesses, “Why do you bring people like that here? No one wants to see that, the wounded.” Never let Avila appear in public again, Trump told Milley.

An equally serious challenge to Milley’s sense of duty came in the form of Trump’s ignorance of the rules of war. In November 2019, Trump intervened in three different brutality cases then being adjudicated by the military. In the most infamous case, the Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher had been found guilty of posing with the corpse of an ISIS member. Though Gallagher was found not guilty of murder, witnesses testified that he’d stabbed the prisoner in the neck with a hunting knife. In a highly unusual move, Trump reversed the Navy’s decision to demote him. A junior Army officer named Clint Lorance was also the recipient of Trump’s sympathy. Trump pardoned Lorance, who had been convicted of ordering the shooting of three unarmed Afghans, two of whom died. And in a third case, a Green Beret named Mathew Golsteyn was accused of killing an unarmed Afghan he thought was a Taliban bomb maker. “I stuck up for three great warriors against the deep state,” Trump said at a Florida rally.

In the Gallagher case, Trump intervened to allow Gallagher to keep his Trident insignia, one of the most coveted insignia in the entire U.S. military. The Navy’s leadership found this intervention particularly offensive because tradition held that only a commanding officer or a group of SEALs on a Trident Review Board were supposed to decide who merited being a SEAL. Milley tried to convince Trump that his intrusion was hurting Navy morale. They were flying from Washington to Dover Air Force Base, in Delaware, to attend a “dignified transfer,” a repatriation ceremony for fallen service members, when Milley tried to explain to Trump the damage that his interventions were doing.

In my story, I reported that Milley said, “Mr. President, you have to understand that the SEALs are a tribe within a larger tribe, the Navy. And it’s up to them to figure out what to do with Gallagher. You don’t want to intervene. This is up to the tribe. They have their own rules that they follow.”

Trump called Gallagher a hero and said he didn’t understand why he was being punished.

“Because he slit the throat of a wounded prisoner,” Milley said.

“The guy was going to die anyway,” Trump said.

Milley answered, “Mr. President, we have military ethics and laws about what happens in battle. We can’t do that kind of thing. It’s a war crime.” Trump said he didn’t understand “the big deal.” He went on, “You guys”—meaning combat soldiers—“are all just killers. What’s the difference?”

Milley then summoned one of his aides, a combat-veteran SEAL officer, to the president’s Air Force One office. Milley took hold of the Trident pin on the SEAL’s chest and asked him to describe its importance. The aide explained to Trump that, by tradition, only SEALs can decide, based on assessments of competence and character, whether one of their own should lose his pin. But the president’s mind was not changed. Gallagher kept his pin.

One day, in the first year of Trump’s presidency, I had lunch with Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, in his White House office. I turned the discussion, as soon as I could, to the subject of his father-in-law’s character. I mentioned one of Trump’s recent outbursts and told Kushner that, in my opinion, the president’s behavior was damaging to the country. I cited, as I tend to do, what is in my view Trump’s original sin: his mockery of John McCain’s heroism.

This is where our conversation got strange, and noteworthy. Kushner answered in a way that made it seem as though he agreed with me. “No one can go as low as the president,” he said. “You shouldn’t even try.”

I found this baffling for a moment. But then I understood: Kushner wasn’t insulting his father-in-law. He was paying him a compliment. In Trump’s mind, traditional values—values including those embraced by the armed forces of the United States having to do with honor, self-sacrifice, and integrity—have no merit, no relevance, and no meaning.


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>tldr

None of this matters, I want them to argue on policy not this bull

tRump loves Hitler like Mussolini fid. A new il Duce bag.

>>1355979
It doesn't matter to you but it does matter to millions of Americans

>>1355981
If millions are willing to believe abject lies then they're a lost cause. I mean look at this shit.
> "Milley had resisted Trump’s autocratic urges, and also argued against his many thoughtless and impetuous national-security impulses."
Imagine using Milley as a source for anything.
Milley called China multiple times and explicitly told them he would not only alert China if we decided to go to war, but he would disobey direct orders from his CIC.
Milley also said the biggest threat to America is "white male rage". So he's either a communist dickrider or a communist himself. But he's a traitor nonetheless.

>>1355986
ok

>>1355986
Found the outraged white male

>>1355988
I'm laughing because this entire situation is retarded.
The media jerked off about violent rhetoric, up until Trump's three assassinations, and now they're literally calling him hitler again.

>>1355989
Good post

>>1355989
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/donald-trump-violent-rhetoric-catalogue
>Donald Trump’s Violent Rhetoric: A Catalogue
>No American public figure has done more to normalize political violence.

>>1355992
>No American public figure has done more to normalize political violence.
>not bush lying to get us into a war
>not obama dronestriking children
>it's trump, that hurts the feelings of the press

>>1355994
Half of those things didn't happen, so...

>>1355994
>normalizes political violence
>hurts the feelings of the press
The real problem is that you think these two very different things are the same.

>>1355997
Naah I'm just not brainwashed by a cult of personality like you are.

>>1355986
>>1355989
You know we have eyes and ears right? We can hear Trump’s violent rhetoric and hate for ourselves. He does not hide it. The only way you don’t know Trump is a fascist is you don’t want to know. Willful ignorance is an ugly dress and makes you look like a whore.

>>1356008
American voters, you fucking idiot.

the shill is broken

>>1355958
he's going to be the nominee in 28 and you know it
if he's in prison, then a scion carrying his torch and touting his blessing five times at every rally will be
the damage he has done to our country's political system will likely never be repaired

>>1356017
Waited 900 seconds to say this stupid shit? Lol

>>1356025
>if he's in prison
As the Spartans would say in their laconically witty way, ' If. '
If they got to Al Capone, Trump can end up in prison.

And >>1356044 still waited 900 seconds to say this stupid shit. Lol

>>1356025
I can't even imagine how absolutely shambolic those 2028 rallies are going to be.

>>1355949
>Thread Review
>MAGAtards : "Nuh uh Trump didn't do it thats fake news no way okay okay Trump 100% did do that but its no big deal and actually super based"

You're welcome. Saved you a ton of reading.

Yet, Hitler still lost WWII. Eisenhower won and reached the absolute pinnacle of human ambition: President of the United States.
Ike destroyed a subhuman anti-communist with ideas above its station easily and Hitler

To be fair, this isn't a surprise for anyone paying attention.

>>1355949
I like to jump into this board every now and again to see the boomers and eurofags still living in a 2018 time capsule lose their shit over trump lol

BTW

>Arizona: Trump +1.5
>Nevada: Trump +0.7
>Wisconsin: Trump +0.2
>Michigan: Trump +0.2
>Pennsylvania: Trump +0.6
>North Carolina: Trump +0.8
>Georgia: Trump +2.2

And if early-voting results hold up, he may even take NH and Virginia as well.

Boomer progressivism is dead. But don't worry eurofags, I'm sure you'll catch up to modern society soon - you are always at least a few years behind Americans.

>>1356137
You're not some "cool kid" the boomers (and larping boomers) are the ones voting for Trump

>>1356137
>Trump
>a boomer
The duality of the rightard newfag in 4chan which has been around since 2003 . But in Soviet America, reality will catch up with you who are behind everyone else.

>>1356137
The Keys, Chud.


The Keys.

>>1355986
I'm glad our military leaders are more loyal to America than they are to a wannabe dictator.

>>1356143
*Loyal to the DNC

>>1356144
Funny that you'd agree the DNC are America.

>>1356144
I'd agree that the RNC is anti America

>>1355949
>according to two people who heard him say this.
I heard two people say that OP is a faggot.

>>1356149
You don't trust a 4 star general?

>>1356149
Why would Trumps longest serving chief of staff say it then?

>October Surprise isssssssssssss... Trump is Hitler
This is it? It's fucking over for Kamala lmao.
Hillary 2.0

>>1356150
>general
Was it a four star general that made this specific claim about wanting Hitler's generals? Because all I'm seeing is "two people who heard him say this" and then a bunch of random bullshit that has nothing to do with the claim.

>>1356151
1) show me where the chief of staff says he said this - not two random schmucks claiming the chief of staff claimed he said this.
2) Trump did have to deal with generals questioning his orders, not carrying them out and arguing with him. Fun fact: Trump wanted to pull our troops out of Afghanistan in January before Biden took office, until Gen. Milley argued with him to push back the evacuation to May 1st. This is the same General who told the Chinese that if Trump was planning an attack against them, he would warn them. How that's not treason is a fucking mystery to me. But I digress, people like Milley have been making third-reich comparisons to Trump for years now - so I'm going to need some actual proof.

>>1356158
>show me where the chief of staff says he said this - not two random schmucks claiming the chief of staff claimed he said this.
I guess I'm getting my articles mixed up. Amazing that this man is so shitty, that its getting hard to keep track of all the bullshit he says. I was thinking of the comments he said to John Kelly about him saying "Hitler did some good things"

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/22/us/politics/john-kelly-trump-fitness-character.html#

>>1356160
Yeah I must be confused, because I'm not fucking seeing in that nytimes link where Trump said he wished he had Hitler's generals (the OP claim) or this other shit about Hitler did good things (your moving goalpost).
>ctrl +f
>Hitler
>not found

So I'm getting bored with this. Does ANYONE have ANY fucking proof that Trump said:
>‘I Need the Kind of Generals That Hitler Had’

I'm going to place my bets and say the answer is no.

>>1356161
You should calm down, you seem irate.
>Trump told him that “Hitler did some good things.”

>Mr. Kelly confirmed previous reports that on more than one occasion Mr. Trump spoke positively of Hitler.

>“He commented more than once that, ‘You know, Hitler did some good things, too,’” Mr. Kelly said Mr. Trump told him.
You can even hear him say it too.

>your moving goalpost
Its the same idea you fool, this is almost arguing semantics.

>>1356163
>You should calm down, you seem irate.
Because this is getting really old.
>Trump says he loves Hitler's cock!
>Do you have any proof?
>... n-no but this guy who really hates Trump said he said it so it must be true!

Same bullshit with the "Hitler did some good things" quote. Not one shred of evidence for this beyond the same fucking guy who is claiming this shit AFTER he was fired - and you faggots eat it up as if it's a legit source.

There's no proof, just more hearsay from a biased source that hates Trump, and absolutely meaningless even if it was true because we need to bang that 'orange man bad' drum as loud as possible before an election - because calling Trump literally Hitler worked so well the last 9001 times.

>>1356165
I guess I can understand why you dont want to believe these allegations. He's your guy after all, and no one wants to believe that their guy is the bad guy and would say insane shit like this. But imagine if Obama's or Biden's former Chief of Staff came out and said this. That'd be quite the accusation, from such a high person in government. And people left and right would be questioning whether they're an actual fascist or not.

>>1356171
And you clearly don't know a fucking thing about me at all, because I didn't give a flying fuck about the people claiming Obama wasn't born in America, or he's a communist, or he worships the devil, or whatever the fuck Fox News was reporting back at that time. So nice try, faggot.

>>1356165
>>1356177
Trump has spoken about his admiration of Hitler multiple times. He also praises Orban, Putin and many other fascists. He just praised Xi on Tuesday and said he loves that fascist and that he is so strong and powerful. He loves fascists. So funny how you won’t hear these facts even when Trump says them to you because of some weird idea about vindictive people who he fired. Trump has been a racist fascism lover for years. You only don’t want to hear it because of your willful ignorance. We can see him, we can hear him, we know what Trump is about and what he wants. Power, control, Trump is a little insecure man who has to project his idea of masculinity because he is not masculine at all. I’ve never seen such a weak effeminate man who pretends to be a strong man. It’s hilarious.

>>1356179
>So funny how you won’t hear these facts
Show me some proof of these facts. No, hearsay is not fact - especially when it comes from someone that was fired by Trump (the fact that I even have to explain this).

I'm not going to keep going on about this all day. Either show me some evidence or fuck off.

Show me some proof of Trump not being a Nazi. No, opinions to the contrary are not facts - especially when it comes from a Trumptard such as the thing above this post or if the contraritard isn't, all it has to do is say 'Trump is a subhuman Nazi'.
I'm going to keep going on about this all day. Either show me some evidence that Trump isn't a Nazi or fuck off. Fact: Trump is a subhuman Nazi, and all opinions to the contrary are eternally wrong and don't have the right to be listened to. When I want your opinion, I'll give it to you

>>1356181
We've already shown you facts, you just keep moving the goalposts. You're like that reddit meme
>Source? Source? Source? Do you have a source on that?
>Source?
>A source. I need a source.
>Sorry, I mean I need a source that explicitly states your argument. This is just tangential to the discussion.
>No, you can't make inferences and observations from the sources you've gathered. Any additional comments from you MUST be a subset of the information from the sources you've gathered.
>You can't make normative statements from empirical evidence.
>Do you have a degree in that field?
>A college degree? In that field?
>Then your arguments are invalid.
>No, it doesn't matter how close those data points are correlated. Correlation does not equal causation.
>Correlation does not equal causation.
>CORRELATION. DOES. NOT. EQUAL. CAUSATION.
>You still haven't provided me a valid source yet.
>Nope, still haven't.
>I just looked through all 308 pages of your user history, figures I'm debating a glormpf supporter. A moron.

>>1356195
>We've already shown you facts
No you didn't. All you've shown me is gossip.
>You're like that reddit meme
No wonder /news/ is full of faggots. Get the fuck out and go back to your containment site.

Why do right-wingers sealion when confronted with facts they don't like?

>>1356199
Why do left-wingers not understand the definition of "fact"?
>noun
>a thing that is known or proved to be true:

>>1355979
this is a matter of domestic policy. if trump thinks veterans are losers and suckers, what does he think of the middle and lower classes of our country? how can anyone expect trump to be on their side when he doesn't have any respect for our veterans, who are one of the most worshipped groups in america?

>>1356204
Was life better for the lower and middle class under Trump?

>>1356198
>Here's an anonymous source
>No not good enough
>Okay here's the chief of staff saying it too
>Nope do you have an exact recording of him saying it?
>Well here's a recording of him saying he wants to be a dictator, and here's him praising other dictators
>No it needs to be an exact recording of him saying "I LOVE HITLER" anything less is fake news.
There's no pleasing you people. You'll always weasel your way out of any situation in which you'd have to confront the fact that your cult leader wants to be a dictator. And even when he does come out crazy shit, you're always like
>well you're misinterpreting it!
>he didn't really mean it!
>he was joking!
You people are excuse factories.

>>1356207
Yeah I'm sorry (not really) but you faggots have called so many people nazis over the last eight years that I'm not going to just blindly take your word for it.I'm afraid I have to insist on some actual evidence - and since you don't have it, this whole thread is a waste of time.

>>1356204
They are suckers though.

Today's military is a scam designed to get low iq kids sent off to die for cultural supremacy and maintain our dwindling post cold war dominance. Its not to protect and serve like the past, its all sending cannon fodder to their doom on shit missions like iraq.

What libshits are really mad about is that he told you the truth; that basically everything our armed servicemen fought for over these last 20 years was based off a lie by the Bush administration. But apparently we can't talk about that, because ISRAEL ISRAEL ISRAEL SUPPORT OUR ALLIES, TERRORISM TERRORISM TERRORISM.

>>1355949
I hate that this isn't actually news.

>>1356210
Well done proving his point, you fascist sack of shit.

>>1356186
>Show me some proof of Trump not being a Nazi.
https://www.nbcnews.com/video/trump-visits-holy-jewish-site-to-mark-oct-7-anniversary-221121093923
Wow that was easy.

>>1356215
>You don't believe his feelings!
>FASCIST!!!
Fuck off back to plebbit.

>>1356218
>this guy he fired called him a nazi
>Thats proof!
>Here's Trump in Israel celebrating at a holy site.
>t-t-That's not proof he's not Hitler! Hitler did ceremonies with the jews all the time!
lol

>>1356219
Do you really think only one guy is saying it?

>>1356217
No. Words have meaning. Trump is a fascist because he fits the definition of a fascist, and in supporting him, so are you.

>>1356186
>t-t-That's not proof he's not Hitler!
Correct. Being a nazi doesn't mean you can't hang out with peoples and cultures you're apposed to. Hitler didn't stop preaching Aryanism when he allied with Japan.

>>1356222
Excuse me, meant for >>1356219

>>1356221
So far we're only hearing about claims that John Kelly made. Do you have another person claiming that Trump said Hitler had some good ideas or he wished he had Hitler's generals?

>>1356222
>No. Words have meaning
Faggot.
>Trump is a fascist because he fits the definition of a fascist
Oh do go on and explain what that definition is, that just happens to encapsulate half the country.
>and in supporting him, so are you.
And there it is. Remember when I mentioned how you've been doing this for eight years? By all means please keep calling everyone who disagrees with you - or God forbid asks for evidence - a nazi/facist/hitler/racist/kkk/bigot. I'll be laughing when Trump wins and you people riot in the streets all over again.

>>1356222
>Trump is a fascist because he fits the definition of a fascist
Oh really? Is he supporting corporatism? Is he practicing realpolitik?

Fucking retard

>>1356225
>Remember when I mentioned how you've been doing this for eight years?
And he's been right for eight years. We keep getting confirmation.

>>1356227
Yeah remember all those Mexican concentration camps in 2019? Oh wait...

>>1356225
You seem confused so here is literally the definition of fascism…

Fascism (/ˈfæʃJzəm/ FASH-iz-əm) is a far-right, authoritarian, and ultranationalist political ideology and movement, characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.

You are saying half the country loves fascist leaders? You think half this country likes Putin? Or Xi? Or Orban? You think half this country wants a king that is our leader forever and all his policies are put into place without checks and balances? You think half this country wants forcible suppression of the political opposition? You think half this country wants autocracy? Trump wants these things, he talks constantly about them. If you do believe those things, then yes you are also a fascist just like Donald Trump.

Hope this helps

>>1356226
Yes, he is.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/trump-stunned-oil-execs-demanding-they-raise-1-billion-for-his-campaign-promising-deal-of-lower-taxes-regulations-report/ar-BB1m6ukL

>>1356228
Didn't he have the child separation thing? Also you're saying he has to have concentration camps before you'll even to begin to acknowledge any of his fascist tendencies? By that point its too late motherfucker.

>>1356228
The ICE ones? Yup, sure do!

>>1356231
Pandering to corporations isn't corporatism you retard. Corporatism is when the government is literally run by corporations; union guilds.

Biden is unironically a bigger fascist than Trump because he gets good-boy points from the communist nutjobs currently residing in the teacher's unions.

>>1356284
>Corporatism is when the government is literally run by corporations
So, this doesn't count? It has to be a "guild" huh?
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/05/politics/trump-economic-plans-musk-government-commission/index.html

>>1356286
You don't get it, corporations and billionaires are bad except when its Trump and people who like Trump, then corporations and billionaires are super based. Don't expect any kind of consistent values from conservatives.

>>1356284
>Biden is unironically a bigger fascist than Trump
You have no clue what fascism is

>>1356226
>Oh really?
Yes. 100%. He is an isolationist, a right-wing populist, he believes strongly in single-party/dictatorial control, he's nationalist primarily along racial lines and hierarchy, he's anti-egalitarian, rampantly sexist, anti-human rights and due process for anybody other than him and his party, overtly militaristic, calls the media and every other institution that criticizes him "the enemy of the people", refers often to the "purity" of the country, constantly calls for the imprisonment of his political opposition, obsessed with national decline/humiliation/victimhood, rampant cronyism and corrution where he installs exclusively his family and inner circle in positions of power. There's really no definition of fascist he doesn't fit.

>>1355949
Its important to remember that conservatives don't dislike fascism. The only dislike the word. If you describe to them what it is they're all for it.

>>1356002
>>1355981
>>1355949
anyone who doesn't like trump because muh mean tweets or muh fascist is literally a fucking retard. the dems are and have been the totalitarian party. they want to ban guns, they keep breaking record after record in terms of fund raising from wallstreet and all of the big corpos are behind them because they let the big corpos run the government.
> Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.” — Benito Mussolini.
is literally the dems. why else are they funded by wallstreet? why else do all the companies back them?
the media and chinese/indian/israeli shills keep pushing this fake fascist shit because if people voted based on policies there wouldn't be a single elected democrat in the country.

>>1356292
>>1356290
>>1356289
fascism is left wing, retardo. all authoritarianism is left wing. its why dems want to ban guns

>>1356303
if all authoritarianism is left wing why did mussolini, franco, hitler, and tojo all brutally suppress the left?

>>1356304
don't ask him anon, he's retarded

>>1356304
because lefties fight other lefties all the time, retard. see the tito/stalin shit, the french revolution, the dems vs green party shit and the Sino-Soviet split.
turns out trying to make a jewish monarchy, the goal of communism and socialism, doesn't work when there are multiple monarchs fighting over who owns the slaves.
>>1356306
samefag

>>1356310
wrong. but we don't blame you retard.

>>1356303
>fascism is left wing, retardo. all authoritarianism is left wing.
Go to bed, schizo gun nut.

>>1356304
Don't feed the trolls

>>1356310
orwell was a socialist and ayn rand was a jew and a zionist

>>1356235
Isn't it strange how we never heard a lot about jews illegally crossing into Germany back in the 40s?

>>1355949
So why are we hearing about this now and not back in 2022?

>>1356313
>>1356315
lol you are one mad tranny. do they dock your pay when you get btfo'd?
>>1356317
cool story bro

>>1356302
bro Elon Musk is Trump's biggest dickrider and Jeff Bezos just stopped the Washington Post from endorsing Harris. Trying to argue that the dems are bad because they're "funded by big corpo" doesn't make sense when Trump has the support of literally the world's richest men.

>>1356323
We did. Maybe not in 2022, but I definitely remember hearing a report about the nazi-loving sack of shit whining that his generals aren’t like the german ones.

>>1356372
Bill Gates just gave Harris $50 million.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/22/us/elections/bill-gates-future-forward-kamala-harris.html
democrats work for billionaires.
even cocksuckers like sanders who claim to hate billionaires change his position on guns and indirectly took money from bloomberg though the everytown anti gun pac bloomberg owns despite saying he wouldn't take bloomberg's money

>>1356381
>sack of shit
that could be brandon, or harris, or obongo or walz or any number of democrats

>>1355981
>Millions of Californicationers and Jew Yorkers
FTFY

>>1356401
...which are americans, no matter how much it makes you seethe

>>1356385
Its your boy, Nazi lover trump

>>1356158
>show me where the chief of staff says he said this

>This week, I asked Kelly about their exchange. He told me that when Trump raised the subject of “German generals,” Kelly responded by asking, “‘Do you mean Bismarck’s generals?’” He went on: “I mean, I knew he didn’t know who Bismarck was, or about the Franco-Prussian War. I said, ‘Do you mean the kaiser’s generals? Surely you can’t mean Hitler’s generals? And he said, ‘Yeah, yeah, Hitler’s generals.’ I explained to him that Rommel had to commit suicide after taking part in a plot against Hitler.” Kelly told me Trump was not acquainted with Rommel.

>>1356459
Who are the democrats in the story?

Trumptards are hopeless in believing in a retarded deity and the Jews' god

>>1356214
Presidents are expected to go beyond words. Policy. Written down. Public. Lots of fucking pages. Actions. Results.

If Trump thinks the military is for suckers, well guess fucking what, nigger? He was commander in Chief of the entire fucking United States military for 4 years.

Action some fucking changes.
Make it better.
Use the most bloated military budget in the history of the world and reallocate some things. You know, because the president creates the budget. And the Republican majority in the house and Senate ( his first 2 years in office) approve it.

Or keep problems as ammo to complain endlessly, like Trump and many other politicians globally. He's not different. He sucks.

Republicans are bitches with low standards.
Biden sucked dick too and I didn't vote for him because I have fucking standards.

>>1355949
>fake story where the family hears "blank check!" and runs up a $60k bill because somebody else was going to pay it
>fake story where the fly on the wall heard that drumphf coped and seethed while slinging racial slurs over the cost of a SRT Hellcat

>>1356490
>Make it better.
He tried retard. The dems, neocons, tech industry and media tried to crucify him because he was spitting into the eye of the military-industrial complex. It got so bad that his own military was lying to him.

The media, silicon valley, DC, NYC and Hollywood were all trying to destroy a US president because he was losing them money.

>>1356372
Corporations want communism. Which side is the most friendly to communism again?

>>1356511
Why would corporations want an economic system that would break them up and destroy them? That doesn't make much sense.

>that which conned those who paid into a savings stamp scheme. Not one person in the Third Reich received their KdF-wagen
>that which conned those who paid $99 for NFTs. And paid $499/$100,000 for cheap Chinese watches
>there's no difference between both
PT Barnum was right way before both. Fortunately, normal sane people don't buy into either.

>>1356512
He's going to say something like
>the Jews

>>1356476
republicans

>>1356501
He tried means that there was a bill/order/something submitted in writing, that was publicly available, to "try". Words are not trying. Legal, written, formal policy submitted to official channels is "trying".

Please show me what this was. Then let's see how it was blocked as it made its way through the legal system. (Presumably by Democrats voting against it, or federal judges)

Surely you have literally one example that will hold up to closer examination?

>>1356536
Don't get me hopes up. Really, this rumor shit is just some off brand copium. I, and I hope other liberals, only care about credible stuff like the OP story.

>>1356538
Yarr lol, can't type. Been drinking me rum

>>1356445
sack of shit means democrat. only democrats are sacks of shit
>>1356512
why would communism, which is literally just monarchy, destroy the corporations? going to communism would result in the corporations gaining even more power in the government and billionaire owners of the corporations gaining hereditary based lordships

>>1356547
>why would communism, which is literally just monarchy
this is what happens when you're afraid to read books

>>1356547
Your sack of shit guy loves nazis and wants to be a nazi.

>>1356554
retardo, what do you think happened in the USSR, China, Cuba and north korea?
>>1356561
nope, by definition all sacks of shit are democrats and all democrats are sacks of shit

>>1356568
>what do you think happened in China
Oh, I dunno. Just ask the creators of Genshin Impact, Honkai Star Rail, Zenless Zone Zero now worth over $7 billion...!

>>1356568
Sorry to burst your bubble, but republicans are the dumbest limp dick people on earth and they don't know their ass from their elbow.

>>1356579
>crackhead bot is a gatcha addict
fits
>>1356587
nah that would be dems. dems think a man in a dress with a dick is a woman

>>1356624
You're actually thinking of republicans. Let me spell it out for you: republican = sack of shit = retard = republican

>and >>1356624 is proved wrong by a company in communist China
fits
>gatcha
>it's 'gacha'
>ESL
fits
nah that would be >>1356624, the woman that will never be a man

>>1356651
nah, that is dems, retardo.
dems want to ban guns. ergo dems = sack of shit
dems think women have dicks. ergo dems = retards.
Also way to post that at 2:12 pm indian time/10:42 am jewish time
>>1356676
>crackhead bot still too retarded to come up with an original post

>and >>1356805 will always have her opinions proved wrong, is ESL and will never be a man
>>1356805 is retarded, ergo rightards = inferior

>>1356811
wow crackhead bot, you finally learned how to link posts

>>1356823
>no argument
I accept your concession

>>1356830
why would I argue with a bot?

>>1356839
>no argument
I accept your concession that you're not human as you destroyed your own argument by replying. 'Replying'. You cannot spell that without the word Lying: as you're lying to yourself by your post here >>1356839. You can stop lying to yourself by not replying to this or any other posts in /news/ if anyone not exactly like you is a 'bot'. You'll only be lying to yourself in perpetuity if you continue replying after this post in this and any other threads in /news/

>>1356849
this was 100% written by chatgpt

>>1356851
>no argument
I accept your concession and that you're reduced to lying to yourself. Certainly your lying about being 'American', 'owning' guns, and 'being a man'

>>1356866
yup, chatgpt. also good job learning how to link posts and spoiler tag, crackhead bot

>>1356877
>no argument
I accept your concession as you're lying to yourself if you think I'm just a 'bot': 'why would I argue with a bot?' because you're lying to yourself

>>1356888
its amazing how you can only repeat other posts, botposter

>why would I argue with a bot?
>>1356890
>no argument
I accept your concession that you're not human if you need to keep replying, thus lying to yourself if I'm just a 'bot'

>tranni boi bot trying to do playground tricks

>a girl with no argument and says 'why would I argue with a bot?' and lies to others about 'learning how to link posts' is reduced to lying to herself

>mfw a bot is calling itself a girl and talking about itself in the third person
weird tranni bot

>and the girl above my post displays her obsession with trannies via her intrusive thoughts
Weird

>mfw the tranni boi still keeps talking about itself in the third person, near me

>mfw the tranni boi post numbered 1356951 still keeps talking about itself in the third person in the post numbered 1356923

>crackhead bot sure is having a melty and is shitting her pants in this thread

>the retard in post numbered 1356990 exposes its intrusive thoughts
>shitting
Weird

>>1356137
This board truly is a butthurt goldmine, isn't it? Im just curious why couldn't stay stay on Reddit instead of insisting on infesting 4chan. On the other side I'm defiitely browsing /news/ when Kamala loses. The meltdown is going to be glorious

>>1359087
paid by israel and china to shit up the board, see>>1357001