A Defensive Trump Tries to Limit the Fallout of the Arlington Clash
A Defensive Trump Tries to Limit the Fallout of the Arlington Clash
At two events on Friday, the former president insisted that he had not been seeking publicity at the military cemetery on Monday and defended his campaign’s actions.
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He not only publicly attacked a Gold Star family, he spent years shitting on McCain for being as soldier "who got captured".
I cannot believe this stupidity is getting any traction.
It's like Hitler suddenly being unpopular because they found out he listened to jazz.
He not only publicly attacked a Gold Star family, he spent years shitting on McCain for being as soldier "who got captured".
And yet he still got elected to the White House. Let’s get real. This Arlington debacle won’t really do much damage to him.
He not only publicly attacked a Gold Star family, he spent years shitting on McCain for being as soldier “who got captured”.
He was on the offensive when he did those things. Now he's on the defensive. When you appear strong, anything is permissible, but when you appear weak suddenly many of the things people turned a blind eye to before become problems.
Anybody who falls for this is absolute trash, the truth doesn't change because you're strong or weak, the only people who think that are stupid cowards too spineless to stand for anything.
That probably describes a good chunk of Trump supporters. They are very enamored by the idea of strength and the terms they use reflect that influence it has on their world. The idea that America is presently diminished and will become great = a strong and respected nation leading other nations. The desire for hypermasculine men and submissive women. If their leader looks weak, they're sensitive to that. They'll deny it as long as they can, of course. But there could very well be a point where the collective feeling turns away from Trump.
Little pink houses for you and me
...? So people should be giving him a pass on this? Wtf
No, it's just weird that this is the final straw for anyone. Like it's great if even one person wakes up because of this incident and recognizes that they were completely wrong about the guy, and we should continue to criticize every failure and prosecute every crime. But he was a piece of shit before the incident. We knew he was a piece of shit, and you either needed to also be a piece of shit or have your head entirely up your own ass to not see it before.
I would agree with everything you wrote here but this quote is confusing:
I cannot believe this stupidity is getting any traction.
That part wasn't me, but I think it means that it is weird that this story is the one that is getting under the skin. Trump has done many more disrespectful and criminal things, so it seems odd that suddenly people care.
I still haven't seen evidence that Republicans do care. This is written by the New York times. All the same people who (rightly) care about trump misdeeds care about this too. I don't understand the original comment I responded to. It's really easy to read it as "no one should care about this" though
That's a reasonable question. Election day is coming, so we're going to find out soon enough.