DoD trolling Trump? Tweet about Iraqi refugee turned Marine on day Trump to announce refugee ban

[highplainsdem]

This was pointed out by CNN's Jim Sciutto:

Link to tweet

Interesting for DOD to tweet this day after Trump signs new restrictions on immigration from Iraq & other Muslim countries

Here's the DoD tweet:

Link to tweet

And the article they're tweeting about:

http://www.marines.mil/News/News-Display/Article/1056365/for-my-home-my-homeland/

Undisclosed Location -- Cpl. Ali J. Mohammed, a supply Marine from Headquarters and Service Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force-Crisis Response-Central Command, is serving as a translator with an SPMAGTF Advise and Assist team that supports Iraqi forces as they fight to oust ISIL from their country.

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When recalling childhood memories from Iraq, he spoke about his sister who used to translate for U.S. Marines.

“Seeing her work so closely with these Americans, how much she trusted them and seeing how much they wanted to help us made me idealize them as a child,” Mohammed said. “It is part of the reason I decided to join the Marine Corps.”

Mohammed’s current role highlights the partnership between SPMAGTF Marines and the Department of Defense with Iraqi military members by translating pertinent information to support their operations.

“To be able to read, write and speak Arabic is normal to him, and for him to be a U.S. Marine and understand how we operate is just phenomenal,” said Maj. Ryan Hunt, the team leader for the SPMAGTF Advise and Assist team operating in Northern Iraq. “He’s just a pleasure to work with and is a huge asset to this team. He’s had such a positive attitude and is very mature; sometimes I forget he’s only 23 years old.”

[HipChick]

1. Second time this week...they are definitely trolling..

[SummerSnow]

2. What an ironic contradiction

[highplainsdem]

3. Daily Beast story on DoD's "stealth subtweet war on Trump"

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/01/25/department-of-defense-launches-stealth-subtweet-war-on-trump.html

Someone at the U.S. Department of Defense has seemingly been studying the art of the subtweet.

On the same morning President Donald Trump is expected to order a temporary ban on refugees, the department’s Twitter account posted a heartwarming story about an Iraqi refugee who enlisted as a Marine and went back to Iraq as part of his military duty.

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The subtle jab at the president, from within his own government, comes one day after Badlands National Park took a stand against Trump by dryly tweeting facts about climate change—a proven scientific concept the president has deemed a hoax—after they’d been silenced with a social-media gag order.