CNN's Anderson Cooper Makes Striking Point About Donald Trump's 'Good General' Claim

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Source: Huffington Post

MEDIA 01/03/2019 06:23 am ET

CNN’s Anderson Cooper Makes Striking Point About Donald Trump’s ‘Good General’ Claim

The CNN host explained why “the world will never know General Trump.”

By Lee Moran

CNN’s Anderson Cooper had some home truths for Donald Trump after the president bragged he’d have made “a good general” during Wednesday’s bizarre Cabinet meeting.

“The world will never know General Trump, in part because the president never set foot in a combat theater until last week with his trip to Iraq,” said the host of “Anderson Cooper 360°.”

“The closest he came to serving in uniform was his teen years as a student in the New York Military Academy, which was a prep school. His parents sent him there to straighten out his behavior, apparently,” Cooper added.

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[NewJeffCT]

1. and, apparently

the military prep school did not work.

[jcgoldie]

2. No shit!

Talk about a lack of discipline!

[Gothmog]

3. Great segment

Trump is a coward/draft dodger

[RAB910]

4. THIS!

[RAB910]

5. Just wrap your head around this

Trump, a man that dodged the draft with a fake doctor's note, says he is smarter in military matters than men who spent decades serving this nation faithfully while rising to the rank of general.

[olegramps]

8. Well he is smarter than Newton, Einstein, Decarte, etc.

[yonder]

9. ...and more, combined. Believe me.

[brush]

20. Not to mention studying at West Point, the military academy.

[RAB910]

21. This seems to explain it

[calimary]

6. And, Thank You Dear God, we never will.

[Soxfan58]

16. He has not Defence Secretary

Hes running the show!

[PWPippinesq]

7. His military school attendance obviously didn't work in straightening him out.

Donald Trump's mother asked: 'What kind of son have I created?'

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-mother-mary-relationship-what-have-i-created-psychology-macleod-fred-trump-a8037181.html

[BSdetect]

10. Anderson should have mentioned the "bone spurs" draft business.

[Texin]

11. This is a weasel who can't even fire a person face-to-face.

He's all bluff and bluster. He just holds the bully pulpit and megaphones his *pronouncements*.

[aeromanKC]

12. Not to mention 239 pounds is not guite casting central for a General

Isn't that what Trump admires in a General..?? Central casting attributes?

[groundloop]

13. 239 pounds..... no way. more like 329 !!!!!

[keithbvadu2]

14. Trump got a medal

[keithbvadu2]

15. "A great and very brave soldier"

"A great and very brave soldier"

[DemoTex]

18. Hill 937 - Ap Bai (Hamburger Hill) - May 10-20, 1969

Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division, 187th Infantry, NOT getting STDs on the infamous Hamburger Hill. Real soldiers in a for-real dangerous world. Young men very, very scared because it is just about the worst the NVA (PAVN) could throw at them. Truly 'great and brave' soldiers fighting and dying while Trump (aka 'Jody') dipped his little dick in anything, back on the block.

While Trump voluntarily exposed himself to STDs, that ten days in May of 1969, 72 Americans died, over 400 were wounded, and 7 went missing in action.

[Ferrets are Cool]

17. It would have been better had he said...

"The world will never know because the president never set foot in a combat theater until that publicity stunt he pulled last week with his trip to Iraq."

[gratuitous]

19. I ran that proposition past a woman in my office

She served in the military, and I asked her about Trump's assertion that he would have been a very good general. When she got done snickering, she just smiled and said "No."

[kag]

22. "His parents sent him there to straighten out his behavior"

It didn't work.

[Vinca]

23. Well, he could have been a general in the war on STDs which he claimed he fought.

[jmowreader]

24. "Apparently"?

Anderson, be reasonable: the only reason you ship your kid off to military school is to correct his behavioral problems. It’s kind of a tradition in this country.

In the immortal words of Strother Martin, “you get a god damn job before sundown or we’re shippin’ you off to military school with the god damned Finkelstein shit kid. Son of a bitch!”