My Comment: Trump's comment was DESPICABLE. My thoughts are that Trump had NO idea or certainly did not think about the four soldiers (green berets) who were killed in Niger until the pressure of the press forced him to think about it and make those four calls to the families of the soldiers killed in action.
Before the issue blew up in the press I believe this know nothing excuse for a president did not even know WHERE Niger was on a map. What he said to the widow of one of them was unthinkable. My link to a book yesterday says it all "The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump" by Bandy Lee, M.D. M. Div Organizer of the Yale "Duty to Warn" Conference. To encapsulate what these 27 eminent psychiatrists think: -- Trump is diagnosed by them a "malignant narcissist" and has empathy for no one. Attention good or bad must be placed in his mind only on him.
My diagnosis is he is sick! What he said to the soldier's pregnant widow was unthinkable. Adding salt to Trump's serious self inflicted wound he said that President Obama never called the family of a solider killed in action or so he's been told. That is, of course, a lie and a massive one, something this president finds it usual to tell. I hate to answer that statement thereby giving it the attention it does not deserve. As so many know President Obama called an infinite number of families of soldiers KIA, wrote personal letters to families and greeted those flag draped caskets of the fallen as they returned home to their final rest.
Shame on you, Donald Trump, you are our nation's curse!
The article below:
Trump Told the Army Widow Her Husband Knew ‘What He Signed Up For,’ Congresswoman Says
“I said this man has no feelings for anyone. This is a young woman with child who is grieved to her soul,” Rep. Frederica Wilson says.
A Florida congresswoman described President Donald Trump’s phone call to the widow of a soldier killed during an ambush in Niger as “insensitive” after the president reportedly said the man “must’ve known what he signed up for.”
Rep.
Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.) was in the car with Myeshia Johnson, the
pregnant widow of Army Sgt. La David Johnson, when Trump called her
Tuesday and spoke for about five minutes, according to South Florida’s NBC affiliate.
“Sarcastically
he said: ‘But you know he must have known what he signed up for,’”
Wilson recounted to NBC6. “How could you say that to a grieving widow? I
couldn’t believe... and he said it more than once. I said this man has
no feelings for anyone. This is a young woman with child who is grieved
to her soul.”
Wilson, speaking to CNN, said her community was angry about the comments and described Johnson as a local hero.
“We
don’t have many heroes in our young men in Miami-Dade County, but he
was a hero for us,” the congresswoman told host Don Lemon. When asked
what her immediate reaction was, she said: “I asked them to give me the
phone, because I wanted to speak with him. And I was going to curse him
out. That was my reaction... I was livid.”
The White House declined to comment on the account in statements given to The Washington Post and an ABC affiliate.
“The
president’s conversations with the families of American heroes who have
made the ultimate sacrifice are private,” an unnamed official said in
the statement.
Four Green Berets were killed in an ambush
in Niger earlier this month, and two others were wounded. Following a
question about why he hadn’t spoken about their deaths publicly or
called troops’ families, Trump said Monday that he had written personal
letters and that he planned to call later. He then used the opportunity
to falsely assert that his predecessors “didn’t make calls” themselves.
Former President Barack Obama frequently called the families of soldiers killed in action and visited those wounded during his administration. President George W. Bush visited troops at the Walter Reed medical center 16 times before he left office.
White
House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders confirmed on Twitter late
Tuesday that Trump had called all four families of those killed, saying
he offered “condolences on behalf of the country.”
Trump returned to the subject Tuesday, using the death of Chief of Staff John Kelly’s son
in 2010 to illustrate Obama’s record on calling bereaved families,
saying his predecessor did not call in that instance. Obama invited
Kelly and his wife, Karen, to a breakfast in 2011 for Gold Star families
who have lost children in combat. They were seated at a table with
first lady Michelle Obama.
Wilson on Tuesday described Trump’s call as “insensitive” in an interview to a local ABC affiliate. She was with Myeshia Johnson and her two children, ages 2 and 6, as she watched the casket carrying her husband arrive at Miami International Airport.
“He should have not have said that,” Wilson told ABC 10, before repeating, “He shouldn’t have said it.”
