In the statement, Kelly is confirming, on the record, a number of details in a 2020 story in The Atlantic by editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, including Trump turning to Kelly on Memorial Day 2017, as they stood among those killed in Afghanistan and Iraq in Section 60 at Arlington National Cemetery, and saying, “I don’t get it. What was in it for them?”
Trump said he did not want to visit the graves of American soldiers buried in the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris because, “Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.” During that same trip to France, the article reported, Trump said the 1,800 US Marines killed in the Belleau Wood were “suckers” for getting killed.
Kelly concluded, “God help us.”
What’s interesting is that Trump seems to have no conception at all that he will go down in history as a terrible human being and general loser.
He’s like a little kid that wants attention. Getting attention for being naughty is just as good as getting attention for being good, but is much easier.
This is exactly it.
His dad was a serious piece of work and Donald is forever trying to impress him because he was starved as a child of genuine affection.
I have compassion for him.
But, it doesn’t trump the compassion I have for all of the people he’s hurt, directly and indirectly.
Imagine, if you will, people in 2120 still using his grave as a gender neutral bathroom. Just warms your heart.
His will definitely be one president’s grave that they probably won’t want to have open to the public.