Our president can't even get a condolence call right
Over the past nine months, the nation has seen evidence accrue that the man it elected president entered office ill-prepared for the job, and whose core personality vain, venal and vengeful made him ill-suited for work that requires tact, humility and compassion. What the nation learned this week is that the man it elected president is so unsuited for the job, he cant even get a condolence call right.
Two weeks ago, a team led by Green Berets was ambushed in Niger by extremists believed to be linked to the Islamic State, and four of the American servicemen were killed. President Trump did not reach out quickly to the families of the fallen, and a question about why he had not spoken publicly about the deaths drew an all-too-familiar response from the president: lies, braggadocio and an attack on his predecessor.
If you look at President Obama and other presidents, most of them didnt make calls to the families of soldiers who died in the nations service, Trump told reporters, claiming that he had called every family of the soldiers whod died on his watch. But Trump was embellishing his record on that front (the Associated Press found four families who had not received calls), and his politicization of the deaths of the four soldiers in the Green Beret unit displayed again what a small heart beats in the chest of our president.
Trump said he had written letters to the families but hadnt mailed them yet, sounding more like a child trying to excuse his own failings than the leader of a country. Then on Tuesday, Trump finally called the families and reportedly told the pregnant widow of Sgt. La David Johnson that her husband knew what he was getting into then acknowledged that this wouldnt make her grief any less painful. Trump denied he acted so boorishly, tweeting that Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Florida), who revealed the comments and has been backed up by the sergeants mother, totally fabricated what I said to the wife of a soldier who died in action (and I have proof). Sad! Sadder is that the American people cant believe any claim by their president. Until Trump presents his proof, the benefit of the doubt here goes to Wilson.
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-trump-fallen-soldier-family-20171018-story.html
riversedge
(70,299 posts)AZ8theist
(5,493 posts)Speak for yourself...
Skittles
(153,193 posts)not my president; not now, NOT EVER
Rhiannon12866
(206,016 posts)Whenever I hear "our president" Trump is not who I think of, never will...