Courtesy of TPM:12 days after it was announced soldiers were killed in Niger, Trump says "I will at some point during the period of time call the parents." pic.twitter.com/vPh85JNF4x— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 16, 2017
During a press conference on Monday afternoon, President Donald Trump made the dubious claim that former President Barack Obama and other former presidents did not personally call the families of soldiers who died in combat.
Trump quickly walked back the claim when a reporter followed up.
The President first told reporters that he had written letters to the families of soldiers who died in the recent attack in Niger and said he would soon call the families as well. He then claimed that his approach was unique, and that not all past presidents made those calls.
“The traditional way, if you look at President Obama and other presidents, most of them didn’t make calls. A lot of them didn’t make calls,” he said. “I like to call when it’s appropriate, when I think I’m able to do it. They have made the ultimate sacrifice so generally I would say that I like to call. I’m going to be calling them.”
That was more than one former Obama adviser could stand.
I absolutely do not blame her for that response.that's a fucking lie. to say president obama (or past presidents) didn't call the family members of soldiers KIA - he's a deranged animal.— Alyssa Mastromonaco (@AlyssaMastro44) October 16, 2017
They did not call President Obama the "Consoler-in-Chief" for nothing.
He met with the families of fallen soldiers. (Mostly in private.)
Met the caskets of soldiers who lost their lives in battle.
Attended multiple military funerals for those who lost their lives.
And visited the hospital beds of men and women who had been wounded fighting for their country.
Here was what Pete Souza the White House photographer under President Obama had to say.
We know that Donald Trump is a lying POS but this is low even for him.Pete Souza: 'I photographed [President Obama] meeting with hundreds of wounded soldiers, and family members of those killed in action.' pic.twitter.com/01pICn3YVo— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 16, 2017
Another distraction -- his lies rile us up -- what did we expect? something different from this deranged little man?
ReplyDeleteFaux president, you have no class whatsoever!
ReplyDeleteYou are not even a pimple on the honorable,President Barack Obama! Go back into your slimy rathole!
He never bragged about anything .
You will never be nothing but low rent trash!!!!
does't get much lower. so, when does he leave? not till after the rich folks get their tax cuts.
DeleteYou can take the trash out of the trailer park but you sure can’t take the trailer park outta the trash. (I changed the words up a bit even tho whore would have worked as well).
DeleteHe's such a moronic fucknut.
ReplyDeleteYou always think he can't sink lower,but he always does. JHFC I Loathe this pig!
ReplyDelete“at some point during a period of time.”
ReplyDeleteWTF?! I guess that means never unless he’s up on his meds to sound coherent and (cough) compassionate/empathetic.
He has to get his minions to write him cue cards first before he can call. That’s why he can’t meet them in person. You bet those letters were written by someone else, typed up and all he had to do was sign them. Every letter pretty much identical, spewed out by some low level aide. Formula letters followed by a formula phone call *if* he calls. We all know that the “at a later time” really means. He’ll wait until it’s forgotten and eclipsed by some other media scandal.
DeleteTrump is turning out to be an even shittier president than I expected and I was not the least bit hopeful nine months ago.
ReplyDeleteThis^ I don't even have a word to describe how terrible he is. 'Monstrous' perhaps? How about six words 'deranged narcissistic lying two year old'?
DeleteGo to rawstory.com and there is a stoey about Coach Pop from the Spurs beinh so pissed at whay Trump said, that he called a reporter at The Nation to give his reaction. That is not typical Coach Pop but he has spoken out several times regarding trump
ReplyDeleteTrump Blames 'Generals' For Telling Him Obama Didn't Call Family Members
ReplyDeletehttp://crooksandliars.com/2017/10/trump-blames-generals-telling-him-obama
These generals that baby sit the White House playroom are pitiful lackeys. Don't believe a word they say to the public.
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/revealed-trump-chief-of-staff-kelly-ordered-ice-to-label-immigrants-criminals-to-justify-mass-raids/
No we are not safer with them in the White House.
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I knew a man like Trump. He also consistently lied claiming he did something then say so and so or no one else did. When caught in his lies he also lied again to shift blame for his lies (the generals told me or whoever). The big difference of pervasive lying to make them look better by lying someone did the opposite and miscommunication is that Trump never makes mistakes according to him.
DeleteI have felt so angry about his slanderous lies about former Presidents this afternoon. He is pond scum, low as one can go burrowing down farther daily.
Mrs Kelly?
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@6:49 cREEPy!
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"Twitter is the closest thing we have to a real-time window into Trump's thoughts"
Well, of course he blamed someone else. He always does when he’s caught in a blatant lie.
DeleteBut he said ALL of the previous presidents. That includes Clinton, Carter and both of the Bushes. All the living presidents that are dissing him by being presidential and stepping up to fill the void his ignorance, ego and inaction has left.
So Obama isn’t the only president on his shit list now. He’s now moved on to insulting ALL of the past living presidents.
Desperate DJT. Soon.
ReplyDeleteTick, tock. GeorgiaPeach
Trump cant handle the truth that he did not win the election. It was an arrangement. And now it is over. Everyone is sick of trump really sick of trump. He is a disgusting human, bad personality and karma
ReplyDeleteYeah Russia likes to "arrange" things. Cough.
Delete8 years ago, President Obama stopped at Elmendorf on his way to a summit in Asia. They scheduled time for him to meet with service members who had recently returned from deployments, but that time was shortened so he could slend time with the family of a fallen servicemember from Alaska.
ReplyDeleteIsn't life strange?
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http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2017-09-03/local-news/Federal-Bureau-of-Investigation-s-Trump-probe-likely-to-reach-Malta-6736178572
The love of money is the root of all evil.
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Baku! Ivanka Trump
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Donald Trump’s Worst Deal
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/13/donald-trumps-worst-deal
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"One of the topics the veteran reporter examined was what the documents from the 2016 leak said about Malta. She wrote that Muscat's wife, the country's energy minister and the government's chief of staff had offshore holdings in Panama to receive money from Azerbaijan."
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Yes. Just one thread among many that circles back and unites DJT to 'nefarious' others NOT patriotic to the USA.
DeleteTick, tock. Soon, DJT. GeorgiaPeach
Why is anyone surprised? Has he ever said anything about the sailors killed in the accident involving the USS McCain?
ReplyDeleteNot surprised but disgusted and loath his dishonesty and chronic smearing people who do not deserve it.
DeleteIt would not surprise me either that while he slammed ball players for not respecting our military he never thought twice about the fallen soldiers. It sounded like a lie he wrote letters but did not mail them yet. Unlikely POTUS mails their own letters.
He also said how hard it is on HIM to call parents. He is unable to process how hard it is on them, or even the dead kid. He is a cowardly lying disgusting sack of shit.
ReplyDeleteI suspect some of those parents would just as well NOT get a call from Trump.
DeleteBut I bet they’d welcome one from Obama. Or Bush depending on their party. George Bush may have been clueless much of the time but he was empathetic. He did have feelings.
If I lost a kid and that POS called me he'd regret it for the rest of his life.
ReplyDeleteJust the fact that that pos is occupying the peoples house is proof he dishonors the Constitution and rule of law. How dare him. He is a liar, cheat and con artist.
ReplyDeleteIn the game of life, Obama is the athlete and Trump is the waterboy.
ReplyDeleteno, he is the mucousy spit the athletes hock on the astroturf and ice.
DeleteThis is just the distraction to take away from the fact women are starting to speak up against the way Trump acted with sexual harassment and his pussy grabbing behaviours. This is just the tip of the iceberg. I am sure his ties to child pornography, and prostitution will come out as well as rape charges. This will all mimic Todd and Sara Palin's prostitution ring and there are many people and situations that involve all of them.
ReplyDeleteSarah Inkkk will go down.
DeleteSince she's cozy with Putin
Has been for a long time.
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Man alive, that Trump is really going after Obama's legacy. Why? Why? Why?
ReplyDeleteI mean is he under a GOP directive or something?
Um, no. Where have you been? He's Putin's pussy. The GOP is too used to padding their pockets to notice. No worries. It's almost Mueller Time.
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Going after Obama’s legacy has nothing to do with Putin and everything to do with trump and his petty need to get revenge to make himself feel like a real man.
DeleteSaying it is Putin’s fault allows little donnie dodge his role and ownership of turning the USA into a 3rd world country. The blame is squarely on donnie’s shoulders.
"North Korea’s deputy ambassador to the United Nations, said on Monday that his nation had become a “full-fledged nuclear power which possesses the delivery means of various ranges” and warned that “the entire U.S. mainland is within our firing range.” He also called North Korea “a responsible nuclear state.”". “The problem is North Korea is used to using very extreme words to deter by bluff and by bluster, and now they’re shocked that the Americans are using a similar approach.”"
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Incoming!
Delete"I was listening to the Beatles channel on satellite radio when World War III started. Knowing the end was near, I sat in my car, fully expecting to hear The End, or All Things Must Pass. I got Octopus's Garden instead. As the roiling nuclear inferno swept across the Los Angeles basin, my last thought was of my father and his stubborn unwillingness to appreciate the crucial role Ringo played in the Fab Four.
"I'd like to be under the sea,
In an octopus's garden in the shade.""
C.L.B.B.T.
You shouldn't have taken all those drugs back in the 70's.
DeleteNBA Head Coach of Spurs calls trump "A Souless Coward" and the world knows it.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/you-cant-buy-class-don-lemon-nails-why-trump-is-so-obsessively-jealous-of-obama/
ReplyDelete"; ‘Why hasn’t Obama fixed this?’ It was an intense fascination with one person that is inexplicable other than to be what we think it is, which is obsessive and the only thing he can think to do and accomplish.”". “You cannot buy, no matter how much money you have, you can’t buy class. President Obama, whatever you think of his politics, is a very classy man. He’s a smart man. He’s one of the kindest people you want to meet, he and his wife are. I’m not talking about politics, having met them and knowing them, you can’t teach that. I think that’s something the president is jealous about. He doesn’t have those qualities.” “Some things you just can’t teach, and that’s class. He can never, no matter how much money, have what Obama had.”"
neither does his children. you can hire someone to decorate your home, buy your clothes, do your hair. they can tell what to buy, when to buy. they can't buy class for you. Chelsea Clinton has class. the Obama girls have class. they were raised that way,as were their parents. trump was raised to be a brat and will always be one. talk about taste-who lives in a gold penthouse and has a gold toilet-how tacky is that? goes very well with the trophy wife of the moment.
DeleteBingo Don Lemon!
DeleteRead more about the orange POS, who currently occupies the White House:
ReplyDelete"Four U.S. Special Forces soldiers were killed earlier this month while on patrol in Niger. President Trump’s silence on their deaths has been notable, with 10 days having passed without any comment from the White House — 10 days during which Trump visited his golf club in Sterling, Va., five times."
Quote from The Washington Post
What is the matter, little donnie can’t take the time from his busy golf schedule to call some grieving parents. When will the time be right, between the 17th and 18th hole?
ReplyDeleteEither he makes the calls or doesn’t, what is this word dance about when it is appropriate, he would like to call, he will call. As usually trying to blame others for his shortcomings, the little donnie trademark. Is someone hiding the phone on him so he can’t call :), why not just sent them a tweet, so personal. More than likely his staff has to write something appropriate because the draft dodger has no empathy.
Personally, if I were one of those parents I would hang up on that fake president.
ABC: "Trump draws ire after claiming past presidents didn't call fallen soldiers' families"
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Ben Rhodes
✔@brhodes
This is an outrageous and disrespectful lie even by Trump standards. Also: Obama never attacked a Gold Star family.
https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/919988979373608961 …
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Wikipedia:
Benjamin J. "Ben" Rhodes is a former White House staff member who served as the Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications for U.S. President Barack Obama and as an Advisor on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action with Iran.
See little donnie is right, all those photos show Obama VISITING with families and wounded soldiers, not CALLING the families :)
ReplyDeleteBesides Obama had more free time than donnie, who is very busy wrecking our nation between rounds of golf.
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ReplyDelete"You could ask Gen. Kelly, did he get a call from Obama?”
Kelly’s son, Marine 2nd Lt. Robert Kelly, was killed in Afghanistan in 2010."
SO did O call? or did he send a letter?, or console him
"in person? Do nothing?
Kelly must NOW confess, whatever the TRUE answer.
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/john-kelly-and-his-wife-sat-with-michelle-obama-at-gold-star-family-gathering-after-sons-death/
Delete" a senior White House official told Axios that Chief of Staff John Kelly “did not receive a call” from Barack Obama after his son was killed in Afghanistan….The White House did not say whether there was a letter or any other contact between Obama and Kelly. An Obama spokesman didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment."
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