The sailors were turned away
Ahhhhh now that’s worse. The Trump people did more than just tell the Navy to hide the name McCain.
Although Navy officials insisted they did not hide the ship, the John S. McCain, they did give all of the sailors aboard the day off on Tuesday as Mr. Trump visited Yokosuka Naval Base.
Two Navy sailors, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly, said that the McCain sailors were not invited to hear Mr. Trump speak that day aboard the amphibious assault ship Wasp, while sailors from other American warships at the base were.
A Navy service member based on Yokosuka said that all of the American warships in the harbor were invited to send 60 to 70 sailors to hear Mr. Trump’s address, with the exception of the McCain. When several sailors from the McCain showed up anyway, wearing their uniforms with the ship’s insignia, they were turned away, the service member said.
That’s disgusting. It’s mean, and small, and taking a small petty bratty grudge out on underlings doing a hard job far from home. Big bloated greedy hateful Trump turning sailors away because they’re from a ship named after McCain ffs! He says it wasn’t his order but it was an order by people who know what a bloated greedy hateful turd of a human he is.
Joyce Vance said this earlier today and she’s not wrong. There is just so much.
Imagine the clamor if Obama had given free advertising to Maddow or Bush to Morning Joe. We’ve got to get back to being outraged over all of the ways Trump demeans the presidency & corrupts its ethical obligations. We have to stop giving him a pass because there is just so much. https://t.co/RaKu1JWXUy
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) May 30, 2019
McCain was definitely an evil bastard, but I’ve still gotta thank him for that stylish thumbs down… it haunts Lord Cheeto still…
I can’t vouch for this myself, but someone pointed out that other than the President, nobody at the White House has the authority to issue any orders to the military. Orders have to come from the President, the Secretary of Defense, or the military chain of command.
I suppose it’s possible that this was all done as a “request” rather than an order, and someone in the Navy/DoD decided to indulge it. But there are some interesting questions there.
Is that ship actually named for Sen. McCain, or for his Admiral forebears?
Forebears. But, you know, it’s the same name, and Trump is SENSITIVE.
Also he was kind of retroactively folded in in some way that I didn’t pay enough attention to understand fully.
It would be a beautiful piece of poetic justice if the crew of the U.S.S. John S. McCain renamed the heads the Donald J. Trump Suite.
@5, I understand there was a rededication ceremony, so the ship is named after Senator McCain, his father and grandfather.