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ffr

(22,649 posts)
Mon May 27, 2019, 09:57 AM May 2019

tRump's Old Pearl Harbor Tweet Resurfaces At The Most Awkward Possible Time

The president’s unusual attack on Barack Obama is getting new attention as he visits Japan.


- HuffPost


On Memorial Day weekend, 3 years ago, Trump criticized Obama for not discussing “the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor while he’s in Japan.” I wonder if a journalist might want to ask him whether he’s going to bring it up now that he’s in Japan, as president, on Memorial Day weekend?

DJT - Does President Obama ever discuss the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor while he's in Japan? Thousands of American lives lost. #MDW -
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He won't even mention Memorial Day. spanone May 2019 #1
Exactly JDC May 2019 #4
Of course not - if he did not like "loser" McCain Backseat Driver May 2019 #6
The republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief not only lacks honor Achilleaze May 2019 #2
Every day I ask myself lordsummerisle May 2019 #29
What I keep asking myself is how anyone who has either patriotism or honor can support him Fortinbras Armstrong May 2019 #35
Answer: Eyeball_Kid May 2019 #38
Leave it to Donald Dumbass though. czarjak May 2019 #3
Donald did not go to Arlington for Veterans Day one year because he was 'too busy' making phone call keithbvadu2 May 2019 #5
Or last year to Belleau Wood to honor the Marines. The Secret Service wouldn't let him, ya know. sarge43 May 2019 #12
And does he even know what caused that attack? MiniMe May 2019 #7
Yes, he knows... IggleDuer May 2019 #11
He has no idea that it happened December 6, 1941. SergeStorms May 2019 #32
Is it sarcasm to mis-state the date? Eyeball_Kid May 2019 #39
Oops! SergeStorms May 2019 #41
Ah, the Information Age empedocles May 2019 #8
He could easily make it over to Mt. Suribachi for a photo op..... Tanuki May 2019 #9
Good. Hope it bites him in the butt. PatrickforO May 2019 #10
#theresalwaysatweet Salviati May 2019 #13
Cowards like trump who evaded the draft duforsure May 2019 #14
By Trump going to Japan, we are returning the favor. Sneederbunk May 2019 #15
The evil inverse of "Lafayette, we are here!" Tanuki May 2019 #17
Didn't Japan suffer enough from being nuked? LastLiberal in PalmSprings May 2019 #25
Trump is like Godzilla trampling over everything IronLionZion May 2019 #36
He's probably blaming South Korea for Pearl Harbor now Fritz Walter May 2019 #16
We're in love, Kim and I. Eyeball_Kid May 2019 #40
He'll be too busy Harker May 2019 #18
"Did we give up when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?" grantcart May 2019 #20
Animal House? Harker May 2019 #21
Correct Belushi/Matheson grantcart May 2019 #23
Thanks! Harker May 2019 #24
Reasons why Obama did not discuss it Perseus May 2019 #19
Anything to point up the folly of war Harker May 2019 #22
Perhaps they could discuss the role of mecantilist trade policies in causing WWII soryang May 2019 #26
trump is an idiot Gothmog May 2019 #27
I find it very surprising ... Martin Eden May 2019 #28
Are you saying Obama wasn't personally responsible for the attack on Pearl Harbor? tclambert May 2019 #31
Trump only likes battleships that weren't sunk. n/t Beartracks May 2019 #30
Why was he out of the country when he should have stayed here calimary May 2019 #33
G.O.P. promises Dirty Donny* will blast Pearl Harbor when he meets the Queen Achilleaze May 2019 #34
They should ask why the Drumpfs pretended to be Swedish during WWII IronLionZion May 2019 #37

Backseat Driver

(4,339 posts)
6. Of course not - if he did not like "loser" McCain
Mon May 27, 2019, 10:32 AM
May 2019

for being captured, why would he honor the ones that really "lost" and died in service? Blackhearted Demon!

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
2. The republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief not only lacks honor
Mon May 27, 2019, 10:03 AM
May 2019

He lacks honesty, sincerity, and good judgement. To understate the case.

lordsummerisle

(4,649 posts)
29. Every day I ask myself
Mon May 27, 2019, 08:30 PM
May 2019

how anyone lacking these qualities (among others) could ever get elected to the presidency...

Fortinbras Armstrong

(4,473 posts)
35. What I keep asking myself is how anyone who has either patriotism or honor can support him
Tue May 28, 2019, 08:24 AM
May 2019

Not to mention how anyone claiming to be a Christian can.

keithbvadu2

(36,369 posts)
5. Donald did not go to Arlington for Veterans Day one year because he was 'too busy' making phone call
Mon May 27, 2019, 10:32 AM
May 2019

Donald did not go to Arlington for Veterans Day one year because he was 'too busy' making phone calls while in town.

sarge43

(28,939 posts)
12. Or last year to Belleau Wood to honor the Marines. The Secret Service wouldn't let him, ya know.
Mon May 27, 2019, 11:12 AM
May 2019

Chickenhawk-in-chief

SergeStorms

(18,903 posts)
32. He has no idea that it happened December 6, 1941.
Tue May 28, 2019, 12:43 AM
May 2019

He thinks it happened during Obama's first term. Wasn't Frederick Douglass killed in that attack on Pearl Harbor as well? I think he was aboard the West Virginia, if I'm not mistaken.

Eyeball_Kid

(7,410 posts)
39. Is it sarcasm to mis-state the date?
Tue May 28, 2019, 09:41 AM
May 2019

The attack on Pearl Harbor traditionally is dated as December 7, 1941.

PatrickforO

(14,516 posts)
10. Good. Hope it bites him in the butt.
Mon May 27, 2019, 10:56 AM
May 2019

He's already heaped shame on America, it's people and its republic form of government.

Salviati

(6,002 posts)
13. #theresalwaysatweet
Mon May 27, 2019, 11:22 AM
May 2019

It's a third thing you can count on, along side death and taxes, there's always a hypocritical trump tweet.

duforsure

(11,882 posts)
14. Cowards like trump who evaded the draft
Mon May 27, 2019, 11:24 AM
May 2019

Sure like to be critical of others but they always show their true colors, and this is no different now. He didn't mention to putin about his attacks , and ongoing attacks on the USA, or to the leaders of Japan because he's too scared to confront people face to face. Just like he has others fire his top people, or by tweets or , again because he's a coward. Yet he like to claim America first, but that's just another obvious lie from trump. trump puts putin and russia first , not America.

Fritz Walter

(4,281 posts)
16. He's probably blaming South Korea for Pearl Harbor now
Mon May 27, 2019, 11:35 AM
May 2019

As a personal favor to his pal, not-so-li’l Kim.

Eyeball_Kid

(7,410 posts)
40. We're in love, Kim and I.
Tue May 28, 2019, 09:50 AM
May 2019

KJU would NEVER cheat on me. I know that he’s thinking of me every day, and wouldn’t dare lie to me. We love one another. We have the best relationship, better than me and Melania, that I can tell you. Next time I’m with KJU, I’ll get him to sign a NDA to prove to one another our undying bond.

Missiles? What missiles?

Harker

(13,880 posts)
18. He'll be too busy
Mon May 27, 2019, 11:41 AM
May 2019

cheating at golf.

He lacks honor, as well as the ability to recognize it in others, so he probably has already forgotten who and what Memorial Day is intended to salute. I doubt he could care less.

grantcart

(53,061 posts)
20. "Did we give up when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?"
Mon May 27, 2019, 11:56 AM
May 2019

" Don't stop him he is on a roll".

Can you name the movie?

 

Perseus

(4,341 posts)
19. Reasons why Obama did not discuss it
Mon May 27, 2019, 11:56 AM
May 2019

1. What good does it do to discuss it?
2. Although the attack took many lives, and massive destruction, USA at the end came on top.
3. Should they also be discussing Hiroshima and Nakasaki?

Reason why the buffoon will not talk about it:
1. He doesn't know or understand what happened at Pearl Harbor.

soryang

(3,299 posts)
26. Perhaps they could discuss the role of mecantilist trade policies in causing WWII
Mon May 27, 2019, 02:57 PM
May 2019

Perhaps not. Trump's atavistic protectionism might suffer in the historical light.

tclambert

(11,080 posts)
31. Are you saying Obama wasn't personally responsible for the attack on Pearl Harbor?
Mon May 27, 2019, 10:14 PM
May 2019

"Fake news!" "Revisionist history." (That second quote would not come from Trump as the words have too many syllables.)

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
34. G.O.P. promises Dirty Donny* will blast Pearl Harbor when he meets the Queen
Tue May 28, 2019, 06:11 AM
May 2019
* aka republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

IronLionZion

(45,261 posts)
37. They should ask why the Drumpfs pretended to be Swedish during WWII
Tue May 28, 2019, 09:31 AM
May 2019

and why Germany rejected his grandfather's application to go back.

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