Donald Trump on Friday downplayed the toll on American sailors enduring nearly nine months at sea on the USS Abraham Lincoln as concerns escalated about mental health and supply issues aboard the aircraft carrier supporting U.S. operations against Iran.
In a brief exchange with reporters before flying to New York for an event to highlight falling violent crime rates across the U.S., Trump refuted that family members have raised concerns about the deployment’s length and even said that the deployment — which includes a record-setting uninterrupted time at sea of more than 240 days — is “not nearly long enough.”
He’s so stupid. He just walks into these PR disasters unforced because he can’t come up with something better.
Just wax lyrical about the dedication of your soldiers and how thankful the USA is for them to carry out this important mission. It would be so easy.
Walking headlong into PR disasters and getting away with it is part of the flex of fascism. It’s the same for most of their hypocrisy and ‘rules for thee’ mentality.
Also, he is going senile, my grandma also got weirdly angry at everybody and everything right before she started to forget who we were, and eventually who she was.
It’s a weird benefit of populist, anti-establishment candidates.
They’re just not held to the same standards and their supporters are very dismissive of any wrong doing.
It’s the same with Farage in the UK. We have a populist Pauline Hanson here in Australia who’s the same.
I don’t really have any plausible explanation.