In the statement, Kelly is confirming, on the record, a number of details in a 2020 story in The Atlantic by editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, including Trump turning to Kelly on Memorial Day 2017, as they stood among those killed in Afghanistan and Iraq in Section 60 at Arlington National Cemetery, and saying, “I don’t get it. What was in it for them?”

Trump said he did not want to visit the graves of American soldiers buried in the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris because, “Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.” During that same trip to France, the article reported, Trump said the 1,800 US Marines killed in the Belleau Wood were “suckers” for getting killed.

Kelly concluded, “God help us.”

  • @ChonkyOwlbear
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    421 year ago

    He’s like a little kid that wants attention. Getting attention for being naughty is just as good as getting attention for being good, but is much easier.

      • @givesomefucks
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        291 year ago

        He’s almost 80…

        It’s one thing to cut a 20 year old slack for how they were raised, but at some point it’s fine to judge them for never working on themselves.

        • @macrocephalic
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          41 year ago

          He was surrounded by sycophants such that he never had to work on himself. There was always someone to blame, and someone to fix up the trail of carnage.

          • Meldroc
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            21 year ago

            I’ve always thought Trump’s inner child was Rosemary’s Baby…

            • @Confused_Emus
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              21 year ago

              I dunno if I’d give him that much credit. The antichrist is supposed to be charming, intelligent, and successful.

        • @RedAggroBest
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          01 year ago

          How you’re raised affects you’re entire life, this would be especially true for someone who’s never needed to even wipe their own ass. It’s okay to dislike someone and how they are, have compassion for the misfortune (all the money in the world doesn’t make up for missed parental love and attention) that produced such a shitty human being and not have it be a defense of his actions.

          • @ChickenLadyLovesLife
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            11 year ago

            missed parental love and attention

            Trump’s dad was a piece of shit too, so chances are he did get parental love and attention.