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$\"\"$ <\/a>Readers of my Blog know how much I have detested Donald Trump being our president. I may have posted about it 150 times in the past four years or more. Nothing has turned my stomach, feeling like vomiting, more about him than what I just saw and heard on MSNBC\u2019s \u201cThe Rachel Maddow Show\u201d regarding an article written by Jeffrey Goldberg and published in The Atlantic<\/em> magazine today entitled \u201cTrump: Americans Who Died in War Are \u2018Losers\u2019 and \u2018Suckers.'\u201d Goldberg is The Atlantic<\/em>\u2018s editor-in-chief and recipient of the National Magazine Award for Reporting. That remark affirms the same alleged remark expressed by pre-president Trump to his fix-it, personal attorney Michael Cohen, saying only \u201csuckers\u201d serve in the military.<\/p>\n

Goldberg claimed to have four witnesses who were present when President Trump made various statements about U.S. military heroes who died in battle. One was two years ago when he canceled a visit to the graves of WWII American soldiers at Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris. He stated publicly he canceled since a helicopter couldn\u2019t fly in the rain to transport him. Goldberg\u2019s witnesses allegedly say Trump told them at the time that he didn\u2019t want to get his hair messed up in the rain and that he also said to them, \u201cWhy should I go to that cemetery. It\u2019s filled with losers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Republican Trump also allegedly said at that time concerning the 1,800 U.S. Marines who were killed in the\u00a0Belleau Wood theatre of WWII that they were \u201csuckers\u201d for getting killed. That corresponds to the detestable President Donald Trump saying publicly in a news conference of Republican Senator John McCain, \u201cHe\u2019s not a war hero.\u201d McCain was from Arizona, where I live. He was shot down in the Vietnam War while piloting an aircraft, maimed for life in both arms when he landed, and was then captured and made a prisoner for five years. The heartless Trump then also said, \u201cI like people who weren\u2019t captured.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump also allegedly called former President George H. W. Bush \u201ca loser\u201d for being shot down, like McCain was, back in WWII while piloting a U.S. fighter plane.<\/p>\n

Goldberg explains in his article, \u201cBelleau Wood is a consequential battle in American history, and the ground on which it was fought is venerated by the Marine Corps. America and its allies stopped the German advance toward Paris there in the spring of 1918. But Trump, on that same trip, asked aides, \u201cWho were the good guys in this war?\u201d He also said that he didn\u2019t understand why the United States would intervene on the side of the Allies.\u201d Trump is such a psychological sicko that he doesn\u2019t understand having friends who help each other, even among nations, such as the U.S. having allies.<\/p>\n

Do you think U.S. military officers would make such allegations if it were not true? I don\u2019t. And I know something about military officers from experience.<\/p>\n

I abhor Donald Trump portraying himself as a patriotic American when the evidence is very strong that he dodged the draft<\/a> by getting a doctor to falsely attest he had bone spurs<\/a>, and this false report exempted him from the draft during the time I served in the military and could have been sent to the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n

Dr. Mary Trump (Ph.D.)\u2013President Trump\u2019s niece and author of the recent book, Too Much, Never Enough: How My Family Created the World\u2019s Most Dangerous Man<\/em>\u2013was asked by Maddow today about her response to the Goldberg article. Mary answered by saying of her uncle, \u201che has time after time demonstrated himself to be nothing but an anti-American, anti-military traitor to this country.\u201d<\/p>\n

I get tired of people making such allegations against President Trump and explaining that \u201che doesn\u2019t understand\u201d this or that. I don\u2019t think so. It\u2019s not that he doesn\u2019t understand someone believing differently than him; it\u2019s that he doesn\u2019t think it\u2019s the right way to think, that his way is the right way to think. That\u2019s why I\u2019ve been calling this man, with no hesitation or ever any regret afterwards, a psychologically sick person who is a classic narcissist or worse. Don\u2019t tell me that I shouldn\u2019t be saying such a thing merely because I\u2019m not a psychiatrist! I\u2019ve got a brain; I can read what psychiatrists say are the attributes of a narcissist, and it is absolutely clear to me that this man Donald Trump is classic case of narcissism. That\u2019s what makes him so dangerous as Mary Trump says. He thinks like a demagogue. That\u2019s why he calls himself repeatedly \u201cstable genius\u201d who can \u201cfix it\u201d regarding any problems the U.S. has.<\/p>\n

Goldberg further reports, \u201cAccording to eyewitnesses, after a White House briefing given by the then-chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Joe Dunford, Trump turned to aides and said, \u2018That guy is smart. Why did he join the military?'\u201d<\/p>\n

No, Trump understands. He\u2019s just trying to change America to be like him. WAKE UP AMERICA. We voted Donald Trump into office (though he only won the Electoral College and not the popular vote.) If we want to preserve our democratic republic and not turn it into a fascist state with Trump as dictator, as he has made plain that he wants, WE MUST THROW THIS GUY OUT OF OFFICE WITH OUR VOTE.<\/p>\n

Then Trump will find out who the sucker really is\u2013him for doing the stupidest thing of his life by become the U.S. president! (See my post \u201cTrump Is Dumber than a Stick!<\/a>\u201c) He may find out even more about being a sucker if the courts find him guilty of stealing from the IRS, guilty of bank fraud, and guilty of insurance fraud. A certain percentage of that money that he may have cheated the U.S. government out of goes to the military in our budget. If that happens, it will even more prove that Donald Trump is a phony as a two dollar bill.<\/p>\n

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