Even though I know the military chain of command has been mostly Republican for decades, I just can't see how they can support Trump in this election cycle.
When you have somebody who was a draft dodger and who calls the entire military a "disaster", a "shambles", the generals "reduced to rubble"...prisoners of war not being heroes because presumably by his twisted logic they shouldn't have allowed themselves to be captured alive in the first place...saying that his attendance at a military academy hardened and toughened him as much or more as those soldiers who actually served in battle...saying that he knows more about ISIS than the generals do...a man who flippantly says he had always wanted a Purple Heart and was happy to get one as a gift (instead of having to earn it the real way)...a man who publicly criticizes the mother of a fallen U.S. soldier and simultaneously criticizes the religion and cultural background of the dead soldier's whole Gold Star family...a man who goes on Russian television and criticizes the state of the U.S. military while heaping praise on the leadership of Vladimir Putin, then claiming he didn't know where he was and didn't know he was being interviewed on Russian television...even though the network is very openly named and called RT, meaning Russian Television...a candidate for Commander in Chief who says that we need to do more to stop the dreadfully high suicide rate among veterans, and then says that any veteran claiming to have combat related PTSD is just weak, and can't handle himself/herself and the stress of combat properly.
WTF?!!
If anything there should be a flood of retired military people publicly speaking out against these comments and ignorant attitudes.
He's a carnival barker, a buffoon and a cartoonish reality tv show character. He's not someone to be taken seriously as a possible contender for a real world Commander in Chief. It's downright scary that he even won the nomination in the first place.
