Trumpie implied there were no African American war heroes

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Chris Wallace asked him about changing the names of military bases named after Rebels. Trump asked if we should name them after Al Sharpton.

[Dr Vegas]

1. what would happen

if the Washington Redskins changes their name to the Washington Red Tails?
(which has been suggested)
A tribute to the Tuskegee Airmen,
a group of African-American United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) servicemen during World War II.

[TexasProgresive]

4. I like it. It might get this old white non football fan to follow a team

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[brush]

15. Team names usually have a connection to the city or state of the team...

like the Phoenix Suns, Colorado Rockies, Dallas Cowboys or the Los Angeles Lakers (once located in Minn, land of 10m lakes). I'm proud on the Tuskegee Airmen but where is the connection to Washinton DC but the word "red"?

How about going in the recent trend of naming teams as a singular characteristic of the team locale like "The Heat" of Miami or the "Colorado Avalance" and call the team just "The District"?

[Dr Vegas]

18. Eleanor Roosevelt's Flight Into History With a Tuskegee Airman

https://owlcation.com/humanities/Eleanor-Roosevelts-Flight-Into-History-With-A-Tuskegee-Air

[Thomas Hurt]

2. There are plenty of CMoH winners of all races to rename the bases after, he as usual is full of sh*t

Naming the bases after confederates was a political act to intimidate, and bolster American conservative/reactionary ideology.

It had nothing to do with history.

[MineralMan]

3. Trump has no knowledge or concept of history.

He is an uneducated person. Naming all US military bases after Medal of Honor recipients would be the ideal solution for the problem. I'm betting that Donald J. Trump, though, could not come up with the name of even one Medal of Honor recipient, so the idea would never occur to him.

Nobody would object to that naming method, and it could include recipients of every ethnicity and race. It would not be controversial in any way whatsoever.

But, Trump doesn't know about Medal of Honor recipients, so the idea is meaningless to him.

[Tracer]

5. Well, he might remember Limbaugh.

Didn't Rush (undeservedly) get the MoH?

[MineralMan]

6. You're kidding, right?

Rush Limbaugh was never even in the military.

The Medal of Honor is strictly a military honor.

He was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Trump. Not the Medal of Honor.

[Tracer]

11. Sorry. Wrong medal. My mistake.

It's almost as bad to give the Medal of Freedom to Rush, as the MoH.

[MineralMan]

12. The Medal of Freedom

really has no requirements. A President can give one to anyone he wants to.

The Congressional Medal of Honor, however, has very exacting requirements of heroism beyond what is normal. That's why so many MoH recipients receive it posthumously.

There is no comparison whatsoever between the two awards.

I can't imagine how anyone could confuse the two.

[Disaffected]

13. Good grief what a petty thing to criticize,

give the guy (gal) a break.

[MineralMan]

14. Not petty if you are or know a Medal of Honor recipient.

It is a very important distinction between those two honors.

[Disaffected]

19. I was referring to

your snide comments directed at the OP for a honest mistake, to wit:

"You're kidding, right"

OP apologises:

"I can't imagine how anyone would confuse the two"

[Cirque du So-What]

16. Well, I'm sure he woulda gotten one

if not for that pesky pilonidal cyst.

[panader0]

10. "Didn't Gary Cooper get one for that movie?"

[malaise]

7. I remember when he said that there were no great American Muslim athletes

Fucking idiot

[HotTeaBag]

8. Geez, he really is talking to a smaller and smaller segment of the population with

every utterance.

[dawg]

9. No he didn't .

He implied that Rev. Sharpton is the equivalent of a traitor who took up arms against the United States.

[obamanut2012]

17. yup, this was the context