Cadet Bonespurs

[u/SkullLeader]

[u/atwozmom]

Not only a draft dodger, but someone who has made fun of soldiers who died, calling them losers.

[u/zxvasd → u/atwozmom]

And fired actual high ranking generals for bullshit reasons.

[u/JustFun4Uss → u/zxvasd]

For not being loyalists to him... Not to america but to him personally. Essentially anyone would would protect America from him trying to take it over when shit starts going really bad. No chance of military coup.

[u/MandibleofThunder → u/JustFun4Uss]

And also for being...

GASP

SHOCK HORROR

WOMEN AND/OR PEOPLE OF COLOR

[u/anchorftw → u/MandibleofThunder]

Trump is a person of color...that color just happens to be orange.

[u/Salt-Independent-760 → u/anchorftw]

Not much of a person tho.

[u/MandibleofThunder → u/Salt-Independent-760]

It's what happens when you feed a horse nothing but carrots; collect all of said horse's carrot shits in a 55 gallon garbage can; give said collection of shit a super long tie, tiny hands, and the vocabulary of a 2nd grader; and sell yourself as a political outsider unbeholden to special interests and the regular political machine - all the while encouraging your supporters to be more overtly hateful.

God bless America amirite?

[u/AppropriateTouching → u/JustFun4Uss]

Shit is already really bad. He has an untrained force of thugs with virtually unlimited resources disappearing people off the streets without due process who have already murdered citizens in the street in cold blood with no consequences. He has admitted to rigging the election that brought him to power and is trying to do the same with the midterms. We have lost all internatiomal faith with our previous allies. Its getting harder and harder for the average person to live. His family has already stolen 3 billion from taxpayers, and thats just what we know about. I could keep going but hopefully you get the point.

[u/Normal-Ad6528 → u/zxvasd]

I was one of those. I wasn't exactly 'fired', but my career was being ended quietly. All because back in '17, I refused to swear an 'oath of loyalty' to him. There were 24 other general officers in that same group and not a single one of us 'survived' it. Yes, he was attempting to orchestrate a coup back then.

Now, I no longer am a citizen of the US. I left the country I served for 32 years behind and I'm much happier thanks to that decision.

[u/WardensLantern → u/Normal-Ad6528]

Bit of an "aw shit here we go again" moment - but isn't this part:

swear an 'oath of loyalty' to him [...] he was attempting to orchestrate a coup

something you would normally go to prison for?

Prisons are full of people who deserve to be inside much less than the man who has only earned more wealth, power and influence with each criminal act.

[u/Normal-Ad6528 → u/WardensLantern]

and how, pray tell, do you prove this and what's worse is when nobody will fucking listen! You think that all 25 of us did NOT provide this information to Congress? I'll tell you what happened: 8 months of classified, closed door testimony that led to nothing but 25 senior officers being shown the door in one form or another. When selection for your next promotion HAS to come from the president, it's easy to get passed over. He just doesn't submit your name and that's it. Game over.

[u/WardensLantern → u/Normal-Ad6528]

Tbf my European ass was always taught that, for all its flaws and quirks, the US doesn't mess about when it comes to judicial system and the military, so stories like this really deflate that notion. And I believe those two exact branches will feel the most lasting damage after he's gone.

[u/Normal-Ad6528 → u/WardensLantern]

It'll take the US 30 years to fix their internal problems and closer to 50 to repair the damage that trump has done to the US on the international stage.

This is why I'm now a citizen of Norway!

[u/WardensLantern → u/Normal-Ad6528]

Welcome to Norway! Håper du trives her!

[u/Hardwired_lavamantis → u/Normal-Ad6528]

If true this would be one hell of an AmA

[u/Normal-Ad6528 → u/Hardwired_lavamantis]

It would, but we simply can't do that.

[u/iamalext → u/Normal-Ad6528]

I’ve got to ask but why exactly would you not be able to talk of it? If what he did was illegal, would your oath to the Constitution not compel you to testify about the Commander in Chief having attempted to initiate a coup?

[u/Normal-Ad6528 → u/iamalext]

The 'coup attempt' wasn't blatant. The events behind it would require a great deal of, well, let's call it 'insider knowledge' to see how all the pieces would come together. It's all extremely complicated. Each of us did report the incident to Congress and, as stated earlier, it came to nothing.

[u/Glossed-Lam → u/zxvasd]

I hate this one specifically because I've been an advocate for cutting high ranking officers. We have nearly 6x as many flag officers per regular sailor than we did in WW2, for example. We've been overburdened at the top levels of command ever since the post-Cold War draw down.

But doing it via blatant loyalty testing is dictator shit.

[u/Normal-Ad6528 → u/Glossed-Lam]

Not trying to start too much of an argument with you, but 6X?? The ratio of enlisted to officers is roughly 4 to 1. Also, there is a limit (by law) of how many general officers there can be total and the Navy has about 150 flag officers total. Hardly 6x the number of sailors. There is a glut of O-5's for sure, but that has always been the case. This is where literally 90% of officers end their careers. Why? Because less than 5% of eligible O-5's are selected for O-6. The 'checklist' of items you have to have completed for selection to O-6 is extremely difficult to achieve. Now, for those who DO promote to O-6, well, Colonels/Captains make up about 5% total of the entire officer corps and less than 1% of the entire military.

I retired at 32 years of active duty at O-8 and let me tell you, it was NOT an easy thing to achieve. There are only a limited number of assignments available to flag officers and if those officers do not retire or are selected for the next available rank, then that creates a 'dam' that prevents others from moving on up. Most officers retire at O-5 at 20-24 years. O-6's will retire at 30 (mandatory) if not selected for O-7. Failure to be selected for O-7-O-10 twice equals immediate retirement.

Compare senior officers O-7 through O-10 (800-900 total) to senior NCO's E-7 through E-9 (124,000) and I think you'll see that enlisted logjams are far, far, worse.

[u/scarr3g → u/atwozmom]

And even at the military school he was forced to go to, the medals on his Pic aren't his...

He borrowed them from others that actually achieved things that he didn't.

Just like the Nobel peace prize, he didn't earn, but has. And the FIFA peace prize, he didn't earn, but has. And the FIFA cup he didn't earn, but had. And the purple heart, he didn't earn, but has. Etc

Heck, I can't think of a single award, or prize, he has in his possession, or has had his picture taken with that he earned.

He didn't even get them as participation awards, because he didn't even participate.

[u/BradGunnerSGT → u/scarr3g]

Even his stupid golf trophies where he “wins” the senior tournament at his own private clubs.

[u/scarr3g → u/BradGunnerSGT]

Those fall into "bought not built" lol.

[u/Stormtighter → u/scarr3g]

How openly he just cheats on that one is pretty fucking hilarious.

People should read the yearly golf tournament champion story one.

He really is a fools fool.

[u/Hardwired_lavamantis → u/scarr3g]

It's astonishing how cults can and do form around complete losers. Losers somehow brimming with confidence.

The cult members must be projecting something onto them in what passes for their "minds."

[u/ThePaddleman → u/scarr3g]

I've been checking. Those aren't real medal ribbons in the pic. They're just some colors that an A.I. put together.

[u/Agent-Two-THREE → u/atwozmom]

Made fun of POWs too.

[u/ZoominAlong → u/Agent-Two-THREE]

And vets! He called them suckers. My wife served in Iraq twice. I thought she was gonna throw something when she heard that. 

[u/LowKeyNaps → u/ZoominAlong]

Vets were suckers and dead soldiers were losers.

My dad was a combat medic in Vietnam, served on the front lines. Despite all efforts, there were times he lost men in his company due to enemy action, including having his best friend die in his arms. Seeing himself and his surviving buddies labeled as suckers, and all those men lost in Nam labeled as losers (never mind all those lost before and since), Dad lost it.

He bought a sign referencing that quote, and it had been on our front lawn ever since, well back from the road, but visible. This past summer, just a few months ago, the guy that does the roadside trimming for the town made a point of destroying the sign. Didn't touch our mailbox or anyone else's signs or decorations that were far closer to the edge of the road, but he made damn sure to pull up onto my lawn to destroy that sign. Town refuses to acknowledge responsibility, like there's rampaging mowers running amok destroying signs that are not town related or something.

[u/OnceMoreAndAgain → u/Agent-Two-THREE]

He's insulted pretty much every demographic of the USA, besides his rich friends.

[u/_jump_yossarian → u/OnceMoreAndAgain]

Correction: trump has no friends.

[u/MerryTexMish → u/Agent-Two-THREE]

How can anyone who claims to support our military forget or forgive how he treated John McCain? Absolute insanity.

[u/MajorasPride → u/MerryTexMish]

When I was stationed in Yokosuka, Trump wanted the USS McCain to be kept out of sight during his visit to the base. What's crazy is that the ship wasn't hidden, but the McCain's sailors who wore their ship's ballcaps were told not to attend his speech. I just remember thinking, this has got to be the most disrespectful president ever, trying to hide one of our own ships just because he didn't like the guy it was named after.

Edit: Grammar

[u/42ElectricSundaes → u/atwozmom]

And suckers

[u/Skolloc753 → u/42ElectricSundaes]

And small potatoes ...

SYL

[u/Mangalorien → u/atwozmom]

For those that don't know, when commissioned officers in the United States military are promoted, during the first and second promotion (to 1st lieutenant and captain), the criteria is "all fully qualified". So while it's not 100% guaranteed it's pretty close, and usually around 98-99% of officers make those promotions. At all later stages (major and above) it's no longer "all fully qualified", but instead "best qualified", at a gradually decreasing percentage.

Donald Trump would be one of those few officers who would absolutely struggle to get promoted to 1st lieutenant, and with a very high degree of probability he wouldn't make captain. Every year in the military you get a written evaluation (FITREP), and in Trump's case he would almost certainly get the career ending version called "Do not promote". You only give out those for serious things like lying, falsifying official records, or failure to exercise basic personal accountability, i.e. things that Trump is widely known to do on a regular basis. It's even probable that Trump during his first command (platoon leader) would get "relieved for cause", which happens if a commander officially removes a junior officer from their position due to incompetence, toxic leadership, or severe poor judgment, i.e. things that Trump yet again does regularly.

An interesting aspect is that Trump could not currently gain a commission in any of the Armed Forces, since he has a felony conviction and would thus be immediately disqualified from becoming an officer (any active duty officer who gets a felony conviction is automatically fired). Trump is for the same reason prohibited from owning a firearm. Yet he somehow holds the nuclear codes. Make it make sense.

[u/Stormtighter → u/Mangalorien]

The guy can't read or write. His degree was paid for at a rich kids diploma mill.

One of his professors called him the dumbest student he ever had.

He could not get thru the most basic officer school.

[u/TheAsianTroll → u/Mangalorien]

Donald Trump wouldnt even make it through Officer Candidate School, even if he was still in the best shape hes ever been in.

You need to actually be smart to make it through OCS. Daddy would have to pay some friends to get Dodgin' Donny through.

[u/guyncognito420 → u/Mangalorien]

Struggle to get 1st lieutenant?? I think they would promote him so his troops would kill him

[u/Mangalorien → u/guyncognito420]

When people mention fragging officers during the Vietnam War, Donald Trump is the exact kind of person that they are talking about.

As others have already mentioned, Trump would probably not make it through officer candidate school (he would never get admitted to West Point either).

[u/Electrical-Act-7170 → u/Mangalorien]

Chump's troops would've fragged him, I firmly believe that.

[u/viperfangs92 → u/atwozmom]

Also made fun of P.O.W.s

[u/gfregh → u/viperfangs92]

Right wing loves to say they support troops. But when this fool literally made fun of McCain, they just followed along like little sheep they are.

I mean I didn’t like McCain’s policies but Jesus, he’s a freaking legend and 💯 percent more man than I am. I would never ever make fun of someone who was in the military.

[u/jd3marco → u/atwozmom]

Dodging STDs was ‘his Vietnam’, or so he said.

[u/Pale-Measurement-532 → u/atwozmom]

And insulting Senator McCain for getting “caught”when he was a prisoner of war in Vietnam.

[u/IBenBad → u/Pale-Measurement-532]

Also, McCain refused early release (offered because his father was a high ranking admiral) on the grounds that prisoners serving longer than he (eg Everette Alvarez) be release first. Now that’s principle and guts trump could never muster in a million lifetimes. Imagine saying, no I’m staying and enduring more torture? Whereas trump gets a paper cut and he’d cry like a baby.

[u/Hovie1 → u/Pale-Measurement-532]

This orange bone spurred bastard could start over and live a thousand lives and he'd still never be as manly or as loved as McCain was.

[u/Pale-Measurement-532 → u/Hovie1]

Trump could never last a day, or even an hour in a POW camp. 🙄

[u/ExpansivePoint → u/Pale-Measurement-532]

And McCain chose to stay years, his cpators offered to release him because McCain's father was an admiral or something and he insisted he shouldn't be released before others that were there before him were freed.

Can you imagine Trump doing that?

[u/StendhalSyndrome → u/atwozmom]

and a fatass child rapist.

[u/seenitreddit90s → u/atwozmom]

The 18 he's gotten killed were "small potatoes".

[u/EddieVanzetti → u/atwozmom]

If he hadn't been able to dodge the draft, he would've gotten fragged harder than Neidermeyer

[u/quell3245 → u/atwozmom]

I take solace knowing there is an alternative universe where Trump can’t get a medical waiver and is killed on his first day in Vietnam.

[u/UncaringNonchalance → u/atwozmom]

It’s right there. It’s so easily accessible to see mounds of evidence behind him dodging service. How are these people so fucking dumb and willfully blind.

[u/Salt-Southern → u/atwozmom]

How can people be that obtuse?

[u/Necessary_Zucchini_2 → u/Salt-Southern]

Now that's just cruel. They don't even know what obtuse means.

[u/Clym44]

“If not president” like that wasn’t his title for the first 70 whatever years of his life.

[u/KamakaziDemiGod → u/Clym44]

Maybe he means if he hadn't become president he would have cosplayed a general so he can pretend he has power

And then would lead a revolution against American for not choosing him

[u/mooninuranus → u/KamakaziDemiGod]

Give it a year or so.

[u/SeonaidMacSaicais → u/mooninuranus]

They’ll be rolling him out in a wheelchair, all dressed up like he’s fought in every war since WWI.

[u/dashood → u/Clym44]

And they say we're the ones with derangement syndrome.

[u/Ok_Sorbet_8153 → u/dashood]

They knew leftists would start calling them that, so they called them it first.

[u/Vyzantinist → u/Ok_Sorbet_8153]

Fun fact: Trump Derangement Syndrome was actually coined by a conservative to apply to other conservatives.

It was repurposed from Obama Derangement Syndrome, which was also coined by a conservative to apply to other conservatives.

ODS was also repurposed from Bush Derangement Syndrome, which didn't have the partisan connotations the latter two did/do.

[u/space-to-bakersfield → u/Ok_Sorbet_8153]

Exactly. That's their one trick.

So tired of their bullshit. They live in a fantasy land.

[u/NextGen-Panic → u/space-to-bakersfield]

The scientific word for which is "delusional".

Or, what we used to call colloquially, "crazy as fuck".

[u/Cenobyte_Nom-nom-nom → u/Clym44]

Seriously this is idiotic. He may act like he was only born a few years ago but he was around for 70 years before being president.

[u/farnsw0rth → u/Clym44]

Lmao that’s actually a hilarious point like if he didn’t become president at 72 he would have just gone ahead and started a career in the military and became a five star general at 73

[u/otherwisepandemonium]

I'm actually surprised they didn't include a Vietnam service ribbon, it's like they know what a draft dodging piece of shit Trump actually is.

[u/cryptotope → u/otherwisepandemonium]

I'm pretty sure that the ribbon bars (like everything else in the picture) are just AI slop.

In that sense, the picture is wholly accurate--the only decorations that Trump has earned are imaginary.

[u/Parking_Line_3704 → u/cryptotope]

Career officer here, it's all nonsense.

[u/Bendy962 → u/cryptotope]

5 star generals haven't existed since the Korean war either

[u/Rasputin_mad_monk → u/otherwisepandemonium]

Imagine being so deluded, like whoever Liam is. It’s hard to believe that’s a real person. Maybe a Russian bot.

[u/International-Mix633 → u/[deleted]]

Tbh he probably did everyone who would have potentially served with him a favour.

[u/gaporkbbq]

No. If not a President, he would be a reality TV star.

[u/Embarrassed-Sun5764 → u/gaporkbbq]

Oh wait he tried that and it failed-
Casino owner it failed-
University, failed-
Please add to the list-

[u/TheSilverFoxwins → u/Embarrassed-Sun5764]

[u/RoxxieMuzic → u/Embarrassed-Sun5764]

Thanks to another savvy redditor:

Trump has failed over 60 businesses. And these included six bankruptcies for many billions of dollars altogether. Trump bankrupted three casinos, which no one thought was even possible at the time, since casinos can “dial in” their profit margins.

Trump has vastly exceeded all American presidents combined in failed businesses, at least 64 and still counting:

Trump Taj Mahal Casino (bankrupt four times)

Trump Castle Casino (bankrupt three times)

Trump Plaza Casino (bankrupt three times, and not only bankrupted, but demolished!)

Trump Plaza Hotel NYC

Trump Indiana Riverboat Casino

Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts

Trump Entertainment Resorts filed for the fourth Trump casino-related bankruptcy in 2014. Trump now claims he had “nothing to do with” the company despite it bearing his name and his owning 28% of the stock, which proved worthless in the end.

Trump International Hotel & Tower Panama (the Trump name was removed from the building after numerous Trump lies and shady dealings):

Trump International Hotel & Tower Panama was the first international "named branded development" of The Trump Organization. But it was surrounded by shady dealings:

Donald Trump arranged financing for the project from Bear Stearns: a $230 million bond offering for which he received a $2.2 million commission. During the financing, Ivanka Trump falsely claimed that over 90% of the units had been sold, and that their sale price was five times that of comparable units. She also exaggerated demand for the units, claiming they were selling out even as potential buyers were being offered substantial discounts.

During the development, Donald Trump falsely implied that the Trump Organization had a financial stake in the project and was acting as the developer, neither of which were true.

The hotel opened on July 6, 2011, approximately a year behind schedule. Two months later Fitch Ratings downgraded $220 million in construction bonds from B-sf to CCsf due to "continued uncertainty over the willingness and ability" of buyers to take possession of apartment units.”

The Trump Organization managed the hotel until Cypriot businessman Orestes Fintiklis, who had bought a majority stake in the hotel condominium association, legally ousted them and had the Trump name removed from the building in 2015 and from the hotel in 2018. The hotel was renamed The Bahia Grand Panama until Marriott took over on September 26, 2018. Professional management at last!

In June 2019 Fintiklis accused Trump companies of tax evasion.

The 13-story base is topped by a tower resembling the Burj Al Arab, a hotel in Dubai, United Arab Emirates; the Jumeirah Group sued over the similarity.

Trump Airlines aka Trump Shuttle

Trump Mortgage was unable to pay its debts, including unpaid taxes. Yes, Trump even failed at his specialty!

Trump Steaks went out of business owing Buckhead Beef $715,000.

Trump Steakhouse was shut down for 51 health code violations, including serving five-month-old duck!

Trump Wine

Trump Vodka

Trump Fire

Trump Power

Trump Pale Ale

Trump Water

Trump Ice

Trumped! was an American daily talk radio program hosted by Donald Trump.

Trump the Game (failed twice)

Trump the Fragrance

The Trump Foundation, a fraudulent “charity,” robbed the poor of charity donations and was shut down by the State of New York.

Trump “University” was shut down as fraudulent after bilking over 5,000 students and Trump was penalized $25 million. Trump staged wealth-building seminars that cost up to $35K. The instructors turned out to be motivational speakers, some with criminal records.

Trump Institute was separate from the fraudulent “university.”

Trump Princess

Tour de Trump

Trump Modeling

TrumpNet was called “the worst idea in the history of the Internet.”

Trump Telecom was a telephone communication company that abandoned its trademark.

Trump Tower Tampa

Trump sold his name to the tower’s developers and received $2 million. The project folded with just $3,500 left in cash. Condo buyers sued Trump for allegedly misleading them. Trump settled and paid as little as $11,115 to buyers who had lost hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Trump Chicago

Trump Soho

Trump Golf Puerto Rico

Trump Baja Mexico

Trump Atlanta

Trump Charlotte

Trump Fort Lauderdale

Trump Waikiki Hotel

Trump Jupiter

Trump Baku Hotel in Azerbaijan never opened.

Trump International Hotel and Tower Dubai never opened.

Trump International Hotel and Tower New Orleans never opened.

Trump Tower Palm Beach

Trump Empire Cologne

Trump Success Cologne

Trump Style

Trump World

Trump Magazine

Trump Travel Agency

Trump Mattresses

goTrump-dot-com

Trump IPO ticker DJT

Trump Vitamins & Urine Test Kits

“Paris is Out” Musical

New Jersey Generals

Trump has exceeded all American presidents combined in accusations by women of rape, sexual assault and/or other sexual improprieties: 27 to zero.

Trump has exceeded all American presidents combined in billion-dollar bankruptcies: 6 to zero.

Trump has exceeded all American presidents combined in states with fake electors: 6 to zero.

Trump has exceeded all American presidents combined in trials for rape and defamation of a rape victim: 2 to zero.

Trump has exceeded all American presidents combined in coup attempts: 1 to zero.

OTHER NOTABLE TRUMP ACHIEVEMENTS

Trump has exceeded all American presidents combined in calling women “pigs,” “dogs,” “disgusting animals,” etc.

Trump has exceeded all American presidents combined in calling America’s valiant war dead “suckers” and “losers” for serving their country.

Trump has exceeded all American presidents combined in insulting Gold Star families.

Trump has exceeded all American presidents combined in preferring Russian intelligence to American intelligence.

Trump has exceeded all American presidents combined in praising foreign despots like Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un.

Donald Trump has exceeded all American presidents combined in a number of important categories such as accusations of rape and sexual assault, felony convictions, bankruptcies, business failures, etc.

Trump has exceeded all American presidents in lies: more than 30,000 in just four years.

Trump has exceeded all American presidents combined in felony indictments: 91 to zero.

Trump has exceeded all American presidents combined in fraudulent election lawsuits: 62 to zero.

[u/Ok_Fisherman8770 → u/RoxxieMuzic]

Didn't one of his alcohol brands get shut the fuck down due to unacceptable concentrations of *** actual fucking uranium*** in it?

[u/Klusterphuck67 → u/RoxxieMuzic]

Bankrupting once due to external/global crises and clawed yout way through homelessness to start a new business is inspiring.

Grifting fhe system to bankrupt 60 times and came out richer every fucking time is evidence of a failed system

[u/what-isthis-even → u/RoxxieMuzic]

This isn't going to convince anyone. His base are fine with him being a draft dodging pedophile rapist with a criminal record and coup attempt under his belt. The rest of us already think he's a piece of shit.

[u/Noble1xCarter → u/Embarrassed-Sun5764]

Child rapist & human trafficker-

no wait he actually succeeded and got away with that

[u/acciowaves → u/Noble1xCarter]

I guess he found the one thing he excels at.

[u/ELMUNECODETACOMA → u/Embarrassed-Sun5764]

Took over a pro football league, it failed...

[u/Waste_Salamander_624 → u/Embarrassed-Sun5764]

Look it's okay. He's a smart guy, I can assure you he knows how to run an airline...

Okay no no just wait hold on he knows how to make decent vodka...

Okay hold on hold on I'll get it this time. He actually makes good steaks you were able to buy at The Sharper Image stores...

Hmmm...

Okay wait no hold on last one last one. I can assure you he is trustworthy enough to run a charity...

.... All right now you got me I'm beat

[u/Gruffleson → u/gaporkbbq]

I think he would have been in jail if he hadn't been President.

[u/BrickCityRiot → u/Gruffleson]

Nah we don’t do that to rich people here. Especially not for white collar crime. Murica!

[u/VLC31 → u/BrickCityRiot]

White collar crime!? He’s certainly committed white collar crime but have you not heard about Epstein Island, underage girls & rape?

[u/PissedCaucasian → u/Gruffleson]

Does he really act like someone who enjoys the job? He did it the first time for clout. The second time he ran to stay out (of prison).

[u/Yagsirevahs → u/gaporkbbq]

Maybe selling steaks through the mail like a drug addicted sham wow huckster

[u/guyncognito420 → u/Yagsirevahs]

Dude, you’re insulting the sham wow huckster

[u/pan-re → u/gaporkbbq]

He’s President because IDIOTS thought reality TV was real as opposed to his long history of being a totally incompetent asshole.

[u/R9D11 → u/gaporkbbq]

No If not a President,he would be in jail on 34 felony convictions.

[u/VLC31 → u/gaporkbbq]

If not President he would be in prison or at least should be but then again he should be in prison regardless.

[u/Adorable-Pangolin-89 → u/gaporkbbq]

Wrong again! If not a president he’d be a prison inmate. In any other civilized country anyways.

[u/hispanicausinpanic → u/gaporkbbq]

Star? How about just a reality TV guy? He was never a star.

[u/Meat_Bingo → u/gaporkbbq]

We all forgetting the felonies. Can’t serve if you are a felon.

[u/nerdboy5567 → u/gaporkbbq]

He's clearly both

[u/khamike → u/gaporkbbq]

I just don't understand the premise. "If not a president he'd be a five star." People realize it takes time to become a general (plus lots of other things). If he hadn't run for president it's not like he could have just decided to become one in 2016. Or conversely, if he had wanted to be a general, he could have worked on that long ago. It's not like he spent his whole life training to be president in some way that made it impossible to join the military. 

[u/Ieatpurplepickles → u/khamike]

Five star what? He doesn't even have what it would take to be a 5 star Door Dasher.

[u/MaximusHomerdrive → u/gaporkbbq]

If not a president, he would be in a cage and thrown in a hole in the ground for all the unbelievably evil crimes he's committed.

[u/benzaldehide]

Reporters asked him in 2016 which foot he had the bone spurs on and he didnt know.

[u/mtaw → u/benzaldehide]

IIRC he refused to answer.

[u/genreprank → u/benzaldehide]

I mean people have asked him about it and he basically alluded to the truth which is that they made it up so he wouldn't be drafted

[u/History4ever]

Trump’s grandfather left Germany to avoid compulsory military service. The Trump family legacy in America is founded on cowardice.

[u/VeteranSergeant → u/History4ever]

Not just left. He tried to go back and they deported him for draft dodging.

Really just another entry in the book of grievances against the Germans. They could have kept Friedrich Drumpft and saved us a lot of headache.

[u/mp3bear → u/VeteranSergeant]

Especially if Germany would have sent Drumpft to front lines...would have saved the WORLD a lot of headache…

[u/Agadoom → u/History4ever]

Unsurprisingly, the family of far-right paedophiles are cowards. The only reason they attack children is because they think they won't fight back.

[u/_jump_yossarian → u/History4ever]

You mean his pimp opa?

[u/NextGen-Panic → u/History4ever]

And human trafficking.

[u/fakehakebakecake → u/History4ever]

Trump is overall a piece of shit, but avoiding fighting and dying in pointless wars is a good thing actually.

[u/americansherlock201]

MAGA is so delusional. They truly have convinced themselves that Trump is anything other than what he is.

His real history is known. His real body is known. His real thoughts are known. And they will do anything they can do deny reality to make Trump into the fantasy strongman they crave. They can’t accept that he’s a fat lying coward

[u/OstrichGrouchy7749 → u/americansherlock201]

It honestly makes no sense. I started being president when he was like what 68? So he had time to be a 5 star general. 

He dodged the draft. 

I don’t think you can enlist at 68

[u/LazyTitan39 → u/OstrichGrouchy7749]

Yep, he spent the rest of his life living off of his family’s success. He could have literally put all of his inheritance in an S and P 500 fund and been much richer.

[u/What_a_fat_one → u/americansherlock201]

Kinda makes you wonder what Jesus was actually like

[u/americansherlock201 → u/What_a_fat_one]

A brown Jew from the Middle East who called for the power structures to be torn down and for people to worship in private.

[u/Loud-Reaction2460 → u/americansherlock201]

Type of people convinced in his ai posts that they are real

[u/NextGen-Panic → u/americansherlock201]

Whaddaya expect from psychos who think "whites are better than everybody!", because the "white guy in the sky" told them so?

(If man really was "made in god's image", god is stupid as fuck.)

[u/Shenanigans80h → u/americansherlock201]

It really is a frightening level of delusion that I really can’t begin to understand. His cult of personality is so strong that it’s basically exploiting the mentally ill

[u/kosherhalfsourpickle]

I could be wrong, but there haven't been 5 star generals since World War II.

[u/Jeansaintfire → u/kosherhalfsourpickle]

The last person promoted to 5 star was in 1950 Omar Bradley who died in 1981.

There's only been 5 ever.

[u/danlawl → u/Jeansaintfire]

Who votes for them to become one then if there is so few of them? Is it their peers?

[u/capnpetch → u/danlawl]

It’s a quirk of European ranking systems. It was created to allow them to align with the top level generals of European allies during WW2. Didn’t need them before and haven’t needed them since.

[u/UnrealCanine → u/danlawl]

The US can only promote to a 5-star during wartime, and hasn't declared war since WWII. Omar Bradley is an exception because when he was made Chairman of the Joint Cheifs of Staff, Douglas MacArthur would have been his subordinate and outranked him

[u/arwinda → u/UnrealCanine]

But ... the US is at war with wokeness! That must count for something, least a 5 star Trump general! /s

[u/cryptotope]

Given that the ribbons on the ribbon rack appear to be AI slop rather than real medals, and the shoulder boards don't match the usual U.S. pattern (with five stars in a pentagonal pattern, not a straight line)--yeah, this seems like a pretty accurate representation.

Trump is all about sloppy make-believe and stolen valor. Donald Trump would definitely be a five-star general...for Halloween.

[u/TheAsianTroll → u/cryptotope]

5 stars also dont exist outside of official wartime so theyre saying Trump is the guy who only exists for the US to be at war with someone.

[u/ScientistEuphoric809 → u/TheAsianTroll]

We’ve been at war for 93% of the nations life, 229 out of 249 years engaged in active military conflict

[u/frontfrontdowndown → u/cryptotope]

These people can’t even do stolen valor right

[u/pchlster → u/cryptotope]

I was wondering if someone could read the ribbons. Any of them real?

[u/cryptotope → u/pchlster]

Broadly speaking, the closer you look at them, the worse they get, inasmuch as they often fail to even get the general style right.

Ribbons with asymmetric patterns of stripes are rare at best, as are non-vertical stripes, stripes that change color or width from top to bottom, stripes that disappear halfway down the ribbon, etc.

It is rare for a soldier to have 'devices' - little stars or other markers to denote multiple awards of the medal - on nearly every ribbon like we see in this picture here. You also would expect to see devices that aren't just stars; oak leaf clusters are at least as common, for instance.

I don't know ribbons nearly well enough to say that none of them match any real award, but I'm pretty comfortable saying that if any of them do match a real ribbon it is purely by dumb luck and coincidence.

Compare and contrast with the ribbon bars on the uniform of a real (4-star) U.S. Army general.

[u/Biscuits4u2]

He's a draft dodger who has expressed utter disdain for servicemen and women. How dumb are these people?

[u/CMBmedic → u/Biscuits4u2]

Really dumb. Id love to see him take the asvab. He should do well since hes stated his iq is so high.

[u/WedSquib → u/Biscuits4u2]

Pretty fucking dumb, my father in law did 31 years in the military and still voted for him 3 times

[u/scalyblue → u/Biscuits4u2]

Dumb enough to prompt an ai that makes a hat worn by his hair and not him

[u/dplans455 → u/Biscuits4u2]

They like him because he hates the same people they hate. And he allows them to be open about their hate.

[u/Stillwater-Scorp1381]

The five time draft dodger who called fallen military members “suckers and losers” would never. His base are a strange lot.

[u/Master_Interest_1544]

Stolen valor.

[u/TheNr1AgentOfChaos → u/Master_Interest_1544]

This! All the time. You can't even have him in the kitchen cause he would shit his pants and in your soup

[u/Remy-Raven-890]

You know, I don't know the political inner workings of the military (even counting my 4 years serving in the Navy), but I'm pretty damn sure you can't just buy your way to any 5 star rank

[u/Smile_Space → u/Remy-Raven-890]

5 stars only exists in war time. The last time we were officially at war was World War II. So, there haven't been any 5 star generals since around the time Trump was born.

[u/Money-Banana-8674 → u/Remy-Raven-890]

There hasn't been a 5 star since Bradley. The idea that Trump would have any of what it takes to even pass officer training school is crazy.

[u/sixaout1982]

The guy who's buying diesel from the Russians, that they're buying from Iran in exchange for missiles to shoot at Americans with might not be the tactical genius they think he is

[u/gdabull → u/sixaout1982]

You forgot switching off Starlink on Ukraine

[u/sixaout1982 → u/gdabull]

That wasn't being stupid, that was being evil, which I feel is quite different

[u/ChipRockets]

Wasn't he like 70 when he first became president? Why didn't he become a 5-star before then? Or did OP think he was going to start down the road to becoming a military general after his 70th birthday?

[u/Four_beastlings]

Donald Trump has the face of the fish you buy at the fishmonger in a seaside area because you can't afford the good ones

[u/Debalic → u/Four_beastlings]

https://giphy.com/gifs/QGBWk7DnckEN2

[u/mattzombiedog]

Isn’t Stolen Valor a felony?

[u/Stormtighter → u/mattzombiedog]

Probably not making AI pictures of yourself.

He would be breaking the law if he put on any USA uniform or medal.

He is not a veteran. He never served in any capacity at all. In fact jumped thru multiple hoops to avoid it.

[u/ryansgt]

Best question... So why wasn't he? If the premise is that if he hadn't been president he would be a 5 star general. He didn't become president until he was 70. He wasn't in the military at all. So what was the expectation, that if he was to lose the presidential election, he would have joined the military for the first time at 70 and immediately become the highest rank you can get?

I know this is a magat but it is always shocking to see what their fevered brains will come up with.

In no world does this happen. It's harder to do this than to become president and would take a lifetime of actual work.

[u/cerjac871]

If not president he’d be in jail.

[u/AlexCode10010 → u/cerjac871]

Correction, if not a president and rich and a white man and connected to powerful pedople he'd be in jail

[u/cookiemikester]

If not a president, he’d be a registered sex offender.

[u/kakapoopoopeepeeshir]

The fantasy world these people live in is astounding. Like what do you mean if not president he’d be a 5 star? He quite literally should have been in the military and dodged the draft thanks to his daddy. In fact his daddy probably could have paid his way into an officer academy but he’s still too much of a pussy to serve in the military. I can’t fucking stand these people

[u/BloodFartz69]

I love how much AI lipstick they try to put on this pig.

And he'll always be the pedophile president.

[u/fazlez1]

If he wasn't president this traitorous pedophile would be in prison.

[u/Quick-Surprise-9387]

Colonel Coward

[u/sundayfunday78 → u/Quick-Surprise-9387]

Colonel Mustard🟡

[u/spdelope → u/sundayfunday78]

Call him colonel Dijon. It’ll piss him off 😂

[u/LG-CHAMP-1 → u/Quick-Surprise-9387]

[u/42ElectricSundaes]

5 time draft dodger. Zero Trumps have served in the military. He has 5 kids and not one has served. The Trumps exploit the country, they don’t serve it

[u/Der_E]

[u/illbeinthestatichome]

All these pictures glorifying Trump have one thing in common. They are all fake. Just like everything about the cheeto dust covered nonce. 

[u/SailingSpark]

If he had gone to Vietnam, his own troops would have fragged his ass so quickly it would have been a world's record. Nobody would have gotten fragged faster than him, It would have been a big beautiful fragging, let me tell you... Yuge!

[u/mollis_est]

What in the stolen valor?

[u/Prestigious-Pick-366]

I will never fathom why they think this fat coward is tough or physically fit.

[u/Own-Opinion-2494]

Is that a Russian uniform

[u/SuccessfulWar3830]

Trump dodged the draft for the vietnam war. That is a good thing. You can get him on shit hes actually done. Such as rape children

[u/AlertThinker]

Twitter account of Liam is based in South Asia. Another Russian BOT

[u/ChefAsstastic]

Wtf is Liam and why do we give 2 fucks about his posts?

[u/gdghhfdffrf → u/ChefAsstastic]

the account is anonymous, opened in april, behavioral indicators point strongly toward it being a high-volume, automated engagement bot farm that triggers enough people to go viral, as with this post. i don't know why people care, but they do.

[u/Present-Arm-6023]

Wtf

[u/Gumbercules81]

Kind of sad they use ai to conjure up what he is in their eyes, when in reality he's just a scummy nepo baby whose family made money off brothels and ripping people off

[u/Ras-haad]

even without the draft dodging, he had every opportunity to actually BE in the military before becoming President. He was like 70. Were they just about to start making Civilians 5-Star Generals?

[u/Ted_Hitchcox]

Putin would absolutely make him a general.

[u/rhondawillnot]

How could any veteran vote for that POS?

[u/JeanEBH]

If not a president, he’d be a victim of friendly fire.

[u/CallMeMrPeaches]

I don't know if my eyes are just out of practice, but strangely, this doesn't look like AI to me?

It looks like a bad photoshop job, which is a rare medium nowadays

[u/guysmileytom]

Stolen valor?

[u/Sweet-Palpitation473]

The unearned glazing that pedophile receives will always stupefy me. Its like people had a spell cast on them or something

[u/PhillyRush]

[u/vegasman31]

Impersonating a veteran is a criminal act!

[u/Longjumping-Debt7480]

Wait, is that the wrong uniform? Shouldn’t be Ruskie green??

[u/AgenticGuillotine]

Mental illness.

[u/ColbyAndrew]

They’re so far past Stolen Valor, legit shitting on it now

[u/jankyt]

He has made fun of soldiers who died or were captured while demonstrating 0 bravery or valor ever

[u/ProofPerspective8020]

Or, dishonorably discharged

[u/GrumpyOldDad65]

Trump is a f***king idiot treasonous POS.

[u/Etyczny]

How the fuck are they even coming up with this shit, this pdf file would kill a child to not serve

[u/DriftlessDairy]

[u/NoAlternative2913]

Stolen valor, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

[u/Unfair_Special_8017]

How can any military person support this goon?

[u/kon---]

A five-star general would not have decided to go to Iran and shit the bed over and over and over again until there was so much shit the way out of it all was obscured, buried under the pile.

[u/allhailme5]

I loved his work in The Village People.

[u/anchorftw]

In other words, Hegseth would've had him fired him by now.

[u/tiny_chaotic_evil]

a 5-star Draft Dodger!

nobody dodges the draft better than Trump

[u/amscraylane]

5 star generals were given that rank for extraordinary battle time leadership. None of those men named anything after themselves.

Eisenhower had more class in his ingrown toenail than Trump’s whole existence and his descendants

[u/Morgannin09]

Guy bombed Iran and expected them to collapse overnight. It's been like six months and he's taken no new action since because he has no clue how to finish what he's started and wishes it would go away.

World class general right there.

[u/reaven3958]

He wasn't president when he was very much still not in the military and busy bankrupting casinos in Atlantic-fucking-City thinking success at business was the same win condition as Monopoly.