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.”
Too little, Too late. John Kelly is culpable for everything trump said and did, and pretending to be outraged about it after the fact makes him a slimy piece of shit too. And the same goes for all the scumbags willing to look the other way for personal gain and political power. I hope your disgrace follows you for the rest of your lives.
Everyone should remember that when these people say these things, what they’re also telling you is that they just let it happen. They stood by and said nothing. The reason they did was because they wanted to ride the new king’s coattails. They banked on the party lasting forever… Now they’re gonna sing and cry crocodile tears.
Too little, too late! No clemency! No pity! However, please do continue. We want to make sure you have company where you’re going!
I concur with both the Dr. and the Capt. very well said
But I’ve heard all of this well before 2020… Did they rat him out ages ago, or was that another person present?
Kelly and Mattis were also used early in the Trump Administration to “prove” Trump was a grownup who would listen to intelligent people behind the scenes. Both of them should have known better.
They chose not to for the sake of power and greed.
I include the latest ones in too, like Alina Habba.
all of them. The more recent they join up the worst they are, but every single one of them knew exactly who they were getting in bed with. Every. Single. One.
TLDR, an accessory to crimes and all around piece of shit trying to make themselves look like less of a bad guy.
Man known for throwing people under bus thrown under bus. Seems poetic.
A person who is not truthful regarding his position on the protection of unborn life, on women, on minorities, on evangelical Christians, on Jews, on working men and women,
As suspected but also yikes.
A person who admires autocrats and murderous dictators. A person that has nothing but contempt for our democratic institutions, our Constitution, and the rule of law.
Also pretty clear. He wants to be a tinpot dictator in the same vein as Putin and Kim.
CNN reached out to the Trump campaign Monday afternoon, telling officials there that a former administration official had confirmed, on the record, a number of details about the 2020 Atlantic story, without naming Kelly, and seeking comment. The Trump campaign responded by insulting the character and credibility of retired Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Mark Milley, who had nothing to do with this story.
Lol.
Oh man, the last part. But it really shows how much they must be struggling with everything that is going on. Not that I’m complaining, I think I’ve earned it after last couple of years.
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.
Oh look at that grave, honey. I wonder who that is? Grass doesn’t seem to grow there and it looks like multiple people have chiseled out the name and filled it… eww is that faeces?
His will definitely be one president’s grave that they probably won’t want to have open to the public.
He just made jokes while in California about Pelosi’s husband being bludgeoned with a hammer by one of his psychopathic followers.
Just let that one marinate for a few seconds.
Shitting on American heroes through lack of any understanding of the mere idea of self sacrifice seems a bit unsurprising.
Watch now, how all the “patriotic” MAGAts try and defend the disgustingly disrespect to our fallen service men and women.
I’ve been having fun with an old friend of mine who has been dragged into the cult. His whole personality is that he’s a veteran. So when something like thisis pointed out, he struggles to find an excuse. It’s been particularly entertaining since january 2020.
As a veteran myself, please do not let up.
Damn have you been documenting any of the really good shit? Like specific convos and stuff?
Using and discarding service members for faux-patriotism has been a staple of the GOP for a while now. As is often the case, Trump merely turned up the volume.
Yet despite all of this, everyone that I have met who outwardly advertises their veteran status is full on 100% in love with Trump.
It’s almost like the battered woman who says she loves her man right up until he murders her.
There are plenty of veterans out there that don’t advertise it because it’s not a core piece of their identity. Of course the 'Murica veterans are going to be more frequently Trumpers. My uncle was in the Vietnam War, but he’s only talked about it a handful of times when asked. He despises Trump, not because he’s a vet, but because of who Trump is.
Seconded. I’m from a military family and have known loads of veterans in my life, and one thing I know is that the people who are most eager to let you know they’re a veteran, are the most likely to be the exact type of personality anyone would associate with Trump’s base.
The more information that comes out about Trump, the more clear it is that he’s a full-on psychopath. I don’t think it’s possible for normal human beings to understand the depths of his depravity.
Despite the first hand evidence that Trump loathes those who gave life and limb for our country, I expect that a majority of current and ex-military will still vote for him.
I agree. It’s a actually impossible to imagine him doing anything just because it’s the right thing to do.
This guy can choke on a fat syphilitic dick.
Hey, that’s not nice to said hypothetical dick. It’s already riddled with disease, why make it worse for the poor li’l pecker?
May it be his own fat syphilitic dick.
“My pecker is not little. My pecker is the biggest. It’s yuge. I went to my doctor - a very respectible man, my doctor - and he said ‘Wow. What a pecker. Never seen anything like it.’ I have the best pecker. He said, he told me how healthy, and large, my pecker was.The ladies - all the lovely ladies - they’re all very impressed with my pecker. That’s what main stream media - that’s what thise folks over at CNN, over at New York Times - that’s what they don’t want you to know.”
Trump talks like a 19 year old poser antifa edge lord about the US military and yet look at the people who voted him in.
Poser Nazi edgelord. Trump isn’t ANTIFA - he openly acknowledges and eggs on fascists. Not the opposite.
Nazi edgelords don’t shit talk the military, which is the important point of their comparison to a “leftist” edgelord
I think he may be a lot more shallow, lets say a 3rd grader that never learnt to be compassionate and empathetic. More dangerous even.
That train left the station a loooooong time ago, Johnny boy
Dude’s just as shitty as Trump. It works like that.
I’m wondering how long will trump last in Vietnam if his “bone spurt” didn’t save him from the draft.
Sure, he could still be assigned away from the fighting, but still I would like to know how he’d do.
Bone Spurt haha!
I had that happen to me yesterday, but it felt pretty good actually.
There’s plenty of stories about friendly fire “accidents” resolving untustable guys in front line units.
Yeah, it’s called fragging irl and team killing in video games.
Mullet quote includes something about trump not saying what he really thinks about Jewish ppl. With how radioactive that is in modern politics, you’d think the CNN article would say something about ir
This is the best summary I could come up with:
John Kelly, the longest-serving White House chief of staff for Donald Trump, offered his harshest criticism yet of the former president in an exclusive statement to CNN.
A person who cavalierly suggests that a selfless warrior who has served his country for 40 years in peacetime and war should lose his life for treason – in expectation that someone will take action.
The Trump campaign responded by insulting the character and credibility of retired Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Mark Milley, who had nothing to do with this story.
Asked for reaction to the suggestion that he deserves execution, Milley told Norah O’Donnell of “60 Minutes” that he wouldn’t “comment directly on those, those things.
“Enough,” interestingly, contains a scene in which Hutchinson and then-White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin push back against Goldberg’s 2020 story.
Reached for comment over the weekend, Griffin said, “Despite publicly praising the military and claiming to be the most pro-military president, there’s a demonstrable record of Trump bashing the most decorated service members in our country, from Gen. Mattis to Kelly to Milley, to criticizing the wounded or deceased like John McCain.
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These are only disturbing if you’re nationalist sycophant lol.
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?”
In reality: A mostly useless death and waste of $2,300,000,000,000 that resulted in 20 years of occupancy ending in a swift win by the Taliban when they all rolled over to let their women become 2nd class citizens.
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.
He’s not wrong. The military preys on the youth like a pastor preys on a choir boy. Crude? Sure, disturbing? GTFO out of here with this fake hero worship when even Republicans themselves don’t give two shits about hypocrisy lol.
He’s a callous shitbag is why. That’s the correct answer. It has nothing to do with some deep thought on how the US exploits people, etc. It’s a response he gave because he doesn’t respect people regardless of whether they are dead or alive. The only people he respects are those in power.
