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BoycottTwitter

(96 posts) Mon Jan 5, 2026, 02:04 PM Monday

Powerful video from Mark Kelly: "Four generations of my family have served our country" Trump's family: zero generations

Four generations of my family have served our country. Service is in my blood. The President wouldn’t know anything about that.

— Captain Mark Kelly (@captmarkkelly.bsky.social) 2026-01-05T18:24:03.972Z


Really powerful takedown. Trump may do shallow performative gestures like weirdly hugging the flag but at the end of the day in his heart we all know Trump has no patriotism or sense of service, he's a corrupt traitor and just in it for himself. Mark Kelly described his family's and his own service record while comparing it to Trump's.
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Powerful video from Mark Kelly: "Four generations of my family have served our country" Trump's family: zero generations (Original Post) BoycottTwitter Monday OP
The present asshole at the department of bs.............. Lovie777 Monday #1
Are Don Eric and Barron Starbeach Monday #2
According to Mary Trump, Don Jr once considered serving in the military. ShazzieB Monday #19
Kelly... MarcoZandrini Monday #3
Go, Kelly, go! Mtnmama Monday #4
And Trump and his ilk? Mtnmama Monday #5
Kelly 👍👍 TommieMommy Monday #6
Thus Administration doesn't understand. Putin is our enemy, not Mark Kelly! surfered Monday #7
Senator Kelly is a hero and a man of honor FakeNoose Monday #8
Isn't the Air National Guard a division of the military? Niagara Monday #9
He's the only Trump Jr. who was worth a damn nt Rob H. Monday #15
I concur, Rob Niagara Monday #18
Yep Rob H. Monday #23
Trump uses Arlington National Cemetery for a photo op. Kid Berwyn Monday #10
Disgusting to see his asshole of a face. mdbl Tuesday #27
Rec. Rec. Rec malaise Monday #11
When Senator Kelly sues, he will have fun using these statements from Hegseth and Bondi LetMyPeopleVote Monday #12
Awesome!!! Go, Captain Kelly! hamsterjill Monday #13
Yes luckykate54 Tuesday #28
"President Mark Kelly" Itchinjim Monday #14
You go, Sen and Astro Kelly! electric_blue68 Monday #16
Re service to the country. . . DinahMoeHum Monday #17
Are they really taking his pension away? Tree Lady Monday #20
Kick dalton99a Monday #21
I would take Senator Kelly's military service over the service of five generations of the trump family LetMyPeopleVote Monday #22
Is there a Go Fund Me... Escape Tuesday #24
What It Feels Like to Hear Decency utherpendragon Tuesday #25
The congress needs to remove Kegsbreath from any position in govt mdbl Tuesday #26

ShazzieB

(22,221 posts)
19. According to Mary Trump, Don Jr once considered serving in the military.
Reply to Starbeach (Reply #2)
Mon Jan 5, 2026, 04:13 PM
Monday

I don't know how serious he was, but he said something about it to his parents. Donald and Ivana are reported to have both replied that if he did, they would immediately disown him!

The story is in Mary's first book. Here she is, talking about it in an interview with Rachel Maddow.


FakeNoose

(40,212 posts)
8. Senator Kelly is a hero and a man of honor
Reply to BoycottTwitter (Original post)
Mon Jan 5, 2026, 03:18 PM
Monday

Chump wouldn't know anything about honor ... neither would his family.

Niagara

(11,530 posts)
9. Isn't the Air National Guard a division of the military?
Reply to BoycottTwitter (Original post)
Mon Jan 5, 2026, 03:20 PM
Monday

Because Fredrick Trump Junior (Mary Trump's father) served in the Air National Guard.

He was also ridiculed by his father and brother Donald for being a pilot. He also died at the age of 42 from alcoholism.


https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Fred_Trump,_Jr.


Niagara

(11,530 posts)
18. I concur, Rob
Reply to Rob H. (Reply #15)
Mon Jan 5, 2026, 04:08 PM
Monday

But the statement is that "zero generations of Trump's have served our country" is false because Fredrick Trump Junior served.

Rob H.

(5,786 posts)
23. Yep
Reply to Niagara (Reply #18)
Mon Jan 5, 2026, 05:28 PM
Monday

The Orange Oaf's grandfather even emigrated from Germany to the US in order to avoid mandatory military service in his home country, but you're right. I feel terrible for Fredrick Jr and his kids (especially Mary) for having to be part of that family.

LetMyPeopleVote

(175,021 posts)
12. When Senator Kelly sues, he will have fun using these statements from Hegseth and Bondi
Reply to BoycottTwitter (Original post)
Mon Jan 5, 2026, 03:48 PM
Monday

If the administration intends to investigate Democratic veterans in Congress, it should prepare equal treatment for members of the White House Cabinet.

In prior remarks, Hegseth and Bondi also said troops must disobey illegal orders - MS NOW

apple.news/AtPlYxgM_Q1S...

— (@oc88.bsky.social) 2025-12-09T17:49:00.527Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/in-prior-remarks-hegseth-and-bondi-also-said-troops-must-disobey-illegal-orders

CNN reported last week, for example, that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who’s helped advance the partisan offensive against the Democratic veterans, delivered remarks in 2016 explaining that U.S. military personnel “won’t follow unlawful orders from their commander in chief” and described the refusal of illegal commands as a part of the military’s ethos and standards.

CNN also found that, as Election Day 2016 drew closer, the former Fox News host told viewers that service members are “not going to follow illegal orders.”

That is to say, eight years ago, the future Pentagon chief delivered the same message he and Trump are now condemning.

Evidently, Hegseth is not alone. The New York Times reported:

Pam Bondi, the attorney general, said the same thing as the [Democratic] lawmakers last year in a friend-of-the-court brief in the Supreme Court as a lawyer for the America First Policy Institute, a conservative think tank that represented three former military leaders.


In the legal brief, which is available online through the high court’s website, Bondi wrote, “Military officers are required not to carry out unlawful orders.” The Florida Republican added, “The military would not carry out a patently unlawful order from the president to kill nonmilitary targets. Indeed, service members are required not to do so.”

I’m going to go out on a limb and say that the Trump administration won’t launch sedition investigations into the incumbent president’s defense secretary and attorney general, but if officials continue to pursue Democratic veterans in Congress, they should probably prepare an answer to a straightforward question: “Why aren’t you also pursuing cases against the president’s defense secretary and attorney general?”

luckykate54

(59 posts)
28. Yes
Reply to hamsterjill (Reply #13)
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 01:03 PM
Tuesday

I think trump has a great fear of Mark Kelly becoming the democratic nominee, therefore he has to start early to defame him.

Tree Lady

(13,009 posts)
20. Are they really taking his pension away?
Reply to BoycottTwitter (Original post)
Mon Jan 5, 2026, 04:17 PM
Monday

Or downgrading him? That is insane...

From the comments on FB trumpers think he committed sedition. This country is already in civil war it's just a different type.

LetMyPeopleVote

(175,021 posts)
22. I would take Senator Kelly's military service over the service of five generations of the trump family
Reply to BoycottTwitter (Original post)
Mon Jan 5, 2026, 04:43 PM
Monday










utherpendragon

(15 posts)
25. What It Feels Like to Hear Decency
Reply to BoycottTwitter (Original post)
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 10:29 AM
Tuesday

Some people parse every word. Others perform loyalty like it’s a competitive sport.

Me? I go by the aftereffects. When Senator Kelly speaks, I’m reminded that justice, understanding, and even mercy still exist in public life.

When certain other “representatives” finish talking, I feel like I’ve been exposed to something mildly toxic. No insight, no clarity—just the sudden need for a shower and an antacid.

mdbl

(8,125 posts)
26. The congress needs to remove Kegsbreath from any position in govt
Reply to BoycottTwitter (Original post)
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 12:08 PM
Tuesday

Send his sorry ass back to Fux Nooze.

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