Trump ‘probably in panic mode’ over US jets shot down and missing pilot in Iran, says his former national security adviser
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-missing-pilot-iran-john-bolton-b2951869.html
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Nollij@sopuli.xyz · 54 pts · 141d
The pilot isn't himself. Therefore, he is not concerned.
i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca · 40 pts · 141d
I’m told Trump prefers pilots who don’t get captured.
kingofras@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 141d
If he so much as mutters that out loud, there will be an ‘accidental fire’ on every galley of every carrier the same day.
Dionysus@leminal.space · 15 pts · 141d
He's literally said that about POWs from Vietnam and WW2.
Why the fuck would the Mustard Mussolini be any different now?
kingofras@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 141d
Answered to the other same comment
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 141d
He has said that in the past. When talking about McCain, who was a downed Navy pilot that got captured. Why would they care now?
IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 141d
Not just shot down & captured. He spent 5 1/2 years as a POW, enduring both torture & years of solitary confinement.
While a POW his father was named commander of all US forces in Vietnam. The Vietnamese offered to release him then as a propaganda tool, but he refused.
I’m sure President Bone-spurs would have jumped at such a chance to be released like that. Assuming he would have survived the solitary confinement & torture.
kingofras@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 141d
Because this is an active conflict he started, and his voters are on those carrier groups.
Anyway, he may have died, so this may end up being JD & Marco’s problem
kunaltyagi@programming.dev · 3 pts · 141d
I don't think you understand the mindset of soldiers once they graduate from the academy. They eat a shit sandwich and they know it, but they'll be the gordamn best shit eaters there are
halowpeano@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 141d
You misunderstand. He's not panicking because he cares about any of them. He knows it makes him look bad, makes the military look inept and poorly run that he's commander in chief over, and he has no one left to blame. He hand picked everyone running this shit show. He's looking for an out, for himself, and is panicking because he can't see one.
lauha@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 141d
Obviously he is not in enough stress yet
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 141d
How long until he starts insulting the military?
Bobby_shmurda@sh.itjust.works · 50 pts · 141d
Lol, no he ain't. He couldn't care less.
tacosanonymous@mander.xyz · 18 pts · 141d
Full "blame everyone else because he can’t comprehend is beautiful plan having a single flaw" mode.
Bobby_shmurda@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 141d
"In 2015, Donald Trump said of the late Senator John McCain—who spent over five years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam—that he was "not a war hero" and stated, "I like people who weren't captured". Trump maintained that a person is only considered a hero if they are not captured."
DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works · 19 pts · 141d
Yeah I'm guessing he's more likely in "golf mode" right now.
BanMe@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 141d
Fox News probably won't bother him with it until Sunday's briefing
cosmicrookie@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 141d
I'm sure that behind closed doors, he's already called those pilots losers for getting shot or killed
hateisreality@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 140d
I doubt to it ,Trump is the kind of monster that only care about pliots who don't get shot down. The one who do are "losers".
Redvenom@retrolemmy.com · 2 pts · 141d
I tought this was only going to last 3 days?
Etterra@discuss.online · 2 pts · 140d
Maybe he had a panic attack and they thought it was a heart attack and that's why he's (hopefully) in the hospital.
altphoto@lemmy.today · 0 pts · 141d
It's for a nu....nah, the ecomonony! We nice peez! The SNP must go up! But helium! Crude oil! We need that! Why did I start a stupid war? ! Oh yeah, the Epstein!..oh okay. We need boots on the ground and in space at the moon base!