It’s actually much better
It seems Trump has finally said something that angers even the maga types.
Former President Donald Trump received an immediate backlash Thursday when he said the Presidential Medal of Freedom he awarded to Dr. Miriam Adelson, the widow of Republican mega-donor Sheldon Adelson, was “equivalent” and “much better” than the Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest military award for bravery in combat.
What was that Captain Bonespurs? You’re dissing combat veterans now?
Speaking from his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, during an event on fighting antisemitism, Trump praised the late Las Vegas casino magnate as “one of the greatest businessmen in the world,” before addressing Sheldon Adelson’s widow to make a comparison between the Medal of Honor and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, which is typically given for significant achievements in the arts, public service and other fields.
In other words it’s a fine medal but it’s not comparable to the one you get for risking your life. Bloated scam artists who’ve never risked a damn thing shouldn’t belittle the people who risk their lives.
“I watched Sheldon sitting so proud in the White House when we gave Miriam the Presidential Medal of Freedom. That’s the highest award you can get as a civilian. It’s the equivalent of the Congressional Medal of Honor, but civilian version,” said Trump as he spoke from the podium in front of multiple American and Israeli flags.
He added, “It’s actually much better because everyone gets the Congressional Medal of Honor, they’re soldiers. They’re either in very bad shape because they’ve been hit so many times by bullets or they are dead. She gets it and she’s a healthy, beautiful woman. And they’re rated equal, but she got the Presidential Medal of Freedom.”
Remember when Trump skipped a planned visit to Aisne-Marne American Cemetery and called the soldiers buried there suckers and losers? He just did the same sort of thing all over again. He’s not a fast learner.
But many veterans with prominent platforms on social media denounced Thursday’s remarks from the 2024 Republican presidential nominee, lambasting the comments about the medal as “offensive” and “disrespectful.” Trump’s statement about the Medal of Honor and his characterization of service members who receive the award became a top trending topic of discussion on X, the social media platform.
Trump’s comments on Thursday evening recalled past criticism of the former president over his disparaging comments about the late Republican Sen. John McCain in 2015 when he said McCain was “only a war hero because he was captured” during the Vietnam War, adding, “I like people that weren’t captured, OK?”
This is core Trump. He’s all about self-dealing – he’s all about self, period. That’s all there is to him. He’s just a flat endless wasteland of self. He’s a vision of hell.
Trump probably thinks Rambo was the greatest war hero, because he lived and came back and started blowing up people at home. I often wonder if he can tell the difference between real life and…not real life.
Trump lacks the ability to understand altruism, doing something for the good of someone else, or for one’s country. He thinks service members are suckers because they may be injured doing something he sees no point in – their belief, their altruism makes them suckers to him. That’s the same way he talked about John McCain – “I like people who weren’t captured.” The closest he can come to empathy is imagining everybody else in the world is also solely out for their own material benefit. That’s why he thinks the people who get the Medal of Honor are losers. They’re all shot up, or dead, losing the material benefit of being unharmed or alive. You say hero, he says sucker. Rich people’s donations to Trump are self-interested, because he gives it back to them in tax cuts. Miriam isn’t a sucker, she never got shot or gave up her material benefit for nothing. So her medal is better. That’s all consistent with his cynical ideology.
Papito, I think you’re right on. I also think he considers soldiers not quite human. The people who work for him, the people who fight wars, the people who teach school or put out fires or whatever, are less than he is, because he is rich, and because he is a winner. They are losers…and he is not a loser. He has no human feeling for them at all. You and I can feel something when we see pictures of injured or dead soldiers; we can feel the pain of humanity snuffed out. He can’t. He is missing that core something to most of us have. As we’ve talked about here so often, he lacks a theory of mind. He also lacks a theory of heart, if there is such a thing. If not, I’ll make it up.
“I like people who didn’t get shot”
–Donald Trump, shot in the ear
Her medal is much better because Trump gave it to her. Being given anything by Trump is the true honour; his touch sanctifies the award, and by extension, her. The medal reflects Trump’s greatness and glory. Not the office of the Presidency. Not the United States. Him.
He considers it the better award because it’s the one he issued, and he’s the greatest person evar. How could an award he issues be anything but the bestest?