Unfit for the Position

 Former President Donald J. Trump on Thursday described the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which honors civilians, as being “much better” than the Medal of Honor, because service members who receive the nation’s highest military honor are often severely wounded or dead. (New York Times)

I engaged in a discussion last evening with someone who was trying to walk this statement back by saying he was only referring to one particular instance. Nonsense. He said it! I know he says a lot and mostly lies, but he has been consistent in his comments about the military and specifically disdain for those who were killed or wounded in service to this great nation.

The almost unintelligible quote follows:

“It’s actually much better [referring to the Medal of Freedom], because everyone gets the Congressional Medal of Honor, that’s soldiers, they’re either in very bad shape because they’ve been hit so many times by bullets, or they’re dead,” Mr. Trump said, using a common misnomer for the military award. “She gets it, and she’s a healthy, beautiful woman.” (New York Times)

I am not sure exactly what he is trying to say, but my take away is that the Medal of Freedom is better because a pretty woman was awarded it. 

Oh yes, and he called it the Congressional Medal of Honor, which is not the correct name. It is the Medal of Honor! Period!

This is not the first time Trump has disparaged those who gave of themselves for our nation:

When President Donald Trump canceled a visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery, near Paris, in 2018, he blamed rain for the last-minute decision, saying that “the helicopter couldn’t fly” and that the Secret Service wouldn’t drive him there. Neither claim was true.

Trump rejected the idea of the visit because he feared his hair would become disheveled in the rain, and because he did not believe it important to honor American war dead, according to four people with firsthand knowledge of the discussion that day. In a conversation with senior staff members on the morning of the scheduled visit, Trump said, “Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.” In a separate conversation on the same trip, Trump referred to the more than 1,800 marines who lost their lives at Belleau Wood as “suckers” for getting killed. (The Atlantic)

He has no understanding of service, personal sacrifice or even heroism. 

Trump's comments continue to underscore why he is not fit for the office he seeks. 

-- Bob Doan, Tequesta, FL