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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(121,378 posts) Fri Apr 4, 2025, 07:56 PM Apr 4

Trump blows off honoring dead soldiers to attend golf tournament

President Donald Trump isn’t attending the dignified transfer of four American soldiers who died in Lithuania, because he has instead chosen to attend a Saudi-backed golf tournament at his country club in Doral, Florida.

Staff Sgt. Jose Duenez Jr., Staff Sgt. Edvin F. Franco, Pfc. Dante D. Taitano, and Staff Sgt. Troy S. Knutson-Collins, all in their twenties, died during a training exercise in the Baltic region of Europe when the military vehicle they were driving sank into a swamp, Military.com reported.

Their bodies began their dignified transfer back to the United States on Thursday and are expected to arrive on Friday at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. In place of Trump, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will be present at the transfer, according to Fox News.

“The President of the United States as of now will not meet the remains of our service members when they land at Dover…because he will be at a golf tournament,” Democratic Sen. Ruben Gallego of Arizona wrote in a post on X. “Now you see why we are worried about his cuts to the [Department of Veterans Affairs]?”

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/4/4/2314507/-Trump-blows-off-honoring-dead-soldiers-to-attend-golf-tournament

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Trump blows off honoring dead soldiers to attend golf tournament (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 4 OP

You know, our lives would all be a lot better Bettie Apr 4 #1

Just think, he could have been accepted at USC's film school. sop Apr 4 #3

Americans are just overhead and liabilities to his reptile brain. MAGAts too stupid to get that. IA8IT Apr 4 #2

Priorities. n/t maveric Apr 4 #4

Bettie

(18,133 posts)

1. You know, our lives would all be a lot better

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Fri Apr 4, 2025, 07:58 PM

Apr 4

if that asshole had just been really good at golf.

sop

(13,607 posts)

3. Just think, he could have been accepted at USC's film school.

Reply to Bettie (Reply #1)

Fri Apr 4, 2025, 08:16 PM

Apr 4

“I’ve always thought that Louis B. Mayer led the ultimate life, that Flo Ziegfeld led the ultimate life, that men like Darryl Zanuck and Harry Cohn did some creative and beautiful things. The ultimate job for me would have been running MGM in the ’30s and ’40s, pre-television.” (Playboy, 1990)

"Maybe that’s the tragedy of Trump. Though he reportedly learned his straight-to-camera scowl by studying Clint Eastwood’s Dirty Harry, and his appetites and parental bankroll were well suited for louche movie moguldom in the pre-#MeToo era, Trump ultimately decided to take a safer path. He gave up on USC to major in business at the University of Pennsylvania before going to work for his father, Fred, at the family’s real estate company." (LA Magazine)

Almost certainly Movie Mogul Trump would have ended up in prison for rape and sexual assault, like Harvey Weinstein.

IA8IT

(6,118 posts)

2. Americans are just overhead and liabilities to his reptile brain. MAGAts too stupid to get that.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Fri Apr 4, 2025, 08:06 PM

Apr 4

maveric

(16,826 posts)

4. Priorities. n/t

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Fri Apr 4, 2025, 09:30 PM

Apr 4

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