Trump says civilian honor is better than military because soldiers who win are ‘in very bad shape … or dead’

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/15/2024-election-campaign-updates-harris-trump/#link-XYNJJRNQBJGERNKZFNMBXO6M2U

37 Comments

  1. twistedSibling on

    Why is he going after honors now? Which person with a military honor pissed him off today?

  2. This is why them going so hard after Walz’s military history was always such a dumbass play. Anyone with a brain just knew Trump was gonna say/do some shit so much worse, and it was only a matter of time. Now the Harris campaign can just respond to any attack on Walz’s service with this indefensible clip

  3. jeterisawesome2 on

    Trump: When we gave her the Presidential Medal of Freedom… It’s the equivalent of the Congressional Medal of Honor— it’s actually much better because everyone who gets the Congressional Medal, they’re soldiers. They’re either in very bad shape because they’ve been hit so many times by bullets or they’re dead. She gets it and she’s a healthy beautiful woman

    he is saying that a billionaire’s wife who purchased a Medal of Freedom with a $133M donation to the Trump campaign deserves more respect from our nation than Medal of Honor winners who paid the ultimate price.

  4. Efficient_Dig_3477 on

    Oh but yes please continue about Walz having stolen valor…

    Honestly the only words I have at this point for this scumbag would probably get my comment deleted and account banned. How any human being listens to this man and willingly supports him will never cease to confuse and anger me.

  5. Don Jr wrote in his book – he actually wrote this, look it up or read his book – that while visiting Arlington cemetary he felt he understood the sacrifice of soldiers who had given their lives because he had also sacrificed. Sacrificed giving up lucrative real estate deals.

    This is the problem with the Trumps. They’re a bunch of self obsessed fucking loony tunes. So much so that they’re dangerous when in positions of power.

  6. conspiracy_troll on

    Keep talking cadet bone spurs, the HarrisWalz campaign thanks you for pushing potential voters their way.

  7. Ha and here I thought it couldn’t get much stupider.

    Jeezus that guy is dumb.

    Everytime he riffs it’s like a deep thoughts comedy routine.

  8. Blablablaballs on

    Not even the slightest clue that his very life is owed to people who have jobs where they can lose their life. 

    Including the people who kept him from getting his head blown off. 

    What a self serving piece of shit. 

  9. Of course this idiot would find ways to denigrate military members and their service.

    This convicted felon dipshit awarded that medal to limbaugh, who had an outsized role in culture wars. Additionally, he did it in a tacky ass way.

    It is no wonder he was viewed unfavorably going into the 2020 election by the military.

  10. Seriously fuck this guy , military trumpers how much more do you have to see that he hates you

  11. lereddituser7575 on

    I don’t use the word “hate” often.

    I **hate** Donald Trump and want him to lose this election in a landslide. Please vote everyone

  12. Hunter-Gatherer_ on

    This has to be a blind study or some kind of simulation. It has to be a test to see how much he can say and do and still get support from people. There’s no way this is real life y’all

  13. royhenderson771 on

    This piece of shit got 74 million votes in 2020. It is unreal. It doesn’t matter who he insults. None of them care. Even when the insult is directed at them.

  14. Does someone have a link to the actual comments? The linked WaPo article doesn’t contain the quote in the headline.

    EDIT: It’s because the link went to “Election Coverage” and the article mentioned is just part of the stream, which is regularly updated.

    > Speaking at a pro-Israel event Thursday, Donald Trump said the Presidential Medal of Freedom is better than the Medal of Honor. The former is the highest honor given to civilians in the United States, awarded to those who have made contributions to the United States’ security or national interests, world peace or culture. The Medal of Honor, often referred to as the “Congressional Medal of Honor,” is awarded exclusively to members of the military for acts of valor beyond the call of duty.
    >
    > Trump said that the Presidential Medal of Freedom is “much better” because “everyone who gets the Congressional Medal of Honor, they’re soldiers, they’re either in very bad shape because they’ve been hit so many times by bullets, or they’re dead.”
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    > Trump said that Miriam Adelson, one of his donors, was fortunate to get the Medal of Freedom during his presidency because, unlike injured or deceased soldiers, she “gets it and she’s a healthy beautiful woman.”

  15. shits on gold star families. shits on POWs like mccain. shits on KIA while not even being able to remember their name. shits on both active duty and veterans like with comments like the linked article. this is just one on a long list of moments like these. time and time again trump has shown that he not only doesn’t care about the men and women of the military, but he actively dislikes them. does anyone need any more proof?

  16. busdrivermike on

    But Walz is the guy who dishonored the military. This is how the WaPo does it, a small blurb in a thread, not letting the comments section magnify it. You can bet if Harris had said it, it would be a Headline with a red “breaking news” banner. Welcome to the toxic “never Trump” media, that is going to use every little trick to keep normalizing that senile psychopath.

  17. RuncibleSpork on

    I come from a big military family, I grew up as a military brat, my Dad is retired military, I have lot of friends/relatives who served, or still serve… Invariably they are the biggest MAGA/Trumpy people you can imagine, and I can never wrap my head around it after all the things he’s said and done over the years.

  18. Ambitious-Joke-4695 on

    Trump’s ego simply can’t let others get more glory than himself or his donors. Sacrifices to the country aren’t sacrifices to DJT so he dismisses them. This is the funny part about them trying to diss Walz. It’s not actually about dissing him, it’s about their fragile egos coping with someone so much more distinguished than them.

  19. Northerngal_420 on

    Number 1 rule to winning an election is…….don’t piss off the voters. Women are pissed because of reproductive rights, cat ladies and daddies, black people because Harris just turned black, postmenopausal women and now Vets. Good strategy.

  20. Grouchy_Aide_3018 on

    The Democrats have to  use this to maximum effect. This isn’t just a minor gaff this is a gift. This asshole literally just said that it’s better to be a billionaire donor to him than to serve your country or give your life for your country and your fellow soldiers. This should be Walz’s attack on JD Vance every second of the debate bring it up over and over and over again. Harris should already be planning to mention this no less than 50 times during the debate and to keep bringing it up Trump has literally handed the Democrats the weapon by which to destroy him.

  21. CommunityGlittering2 on

    Has there ever been a politician with less respect for US soldiers than draft dogging trump?

  22. givemewhiskeypls on

    If you told me in 1992 that in 2024 to find republicans have become the party that the blue collar union workers vote for, were aligned with a strongman Russian leader who is trying to return Russia to the USSR days, were abandoning the military service members, and were led by Donald Trump, I’d have laughed in your fucking face.

  23. dispelthemyth on

    Trump says something that would literally end anyone else’s chance at being elected but this won’t even cost him 0.1% in vote share

  24. A statement like that should absolutely end his campaign. In any election before 2016 it would have ended any campaign.

    But it won’t because it’s Donald fucking Trump

  25. Yet I have to look at countless headlines questioning Tim Walz’s service to his country.

  26. ThickerSalmon14 on

    Jesus. Why would any soldier support Trump? Even if you go with a soldier who might hate the same people that Trump does, you can’t get around the fact that Trump would still look down on that soldier.

    My entire family is buried at Arlington and all I know is that Trump wouldn’t bother to go out to honor our dead because it might mess up his hair.

  27. This is the losers comment all over again. He is still saying that Miriam Adelson is better then American soldiers, all she did was give trump 100 million dollars in exchange for supporting Israel’s annexation of the west bank. I think Trump used to shame republicans for taking money from Miriam Adelson but he changed his tone pretty quick.

  28. Basic_Quantity_9430 on

    I don’t understand veterans who worship that man. Nothing that he did as a young man or as President says that he honors the sacrifices that they made.

  29. snoopingforpooping on

    My Maga neighbor has a marine flag, us flag and Trump poster. I wonder how he feels about being a simp for Trump?