Trump loves the military? Nope.
If you’ve watched the carefully choreographed speeches when the audience is military personnel, you’ll noticed that the troops in camera view are all excited, laughing and yelling at his comments. Especially when he’s disparaging President Biden. Well, those troops are handpicked because they support Trump and they make me sick.
Our troops are supposed to be apolitical. In our combined 28 years of military service, my wife and I were NEVER asked about our political affiliation. NEVER. Why? Because they’re not supposed to ask. Your political affiliation is nobodies business.
So, when Trump’s cult handpicks those who support Trump, they are weaponizing the military against the very people they are supposed to protect.
But here’s the latest shit Trump is pulling: the $1776 Christmas “dividend”. Except it’s nothing but BULLSHIT. From VoteVets:
Remember those $1776 “dividend” Trump sent out to active duty military before Christmas?
A lot of Troops were excited about that money — understandably. $1776 is $1776, after all.
That is, until they found out Trump Scrooged them for publicity.
The money for those checks came out of a fund that was already allocated as a supplement for the basic allowance for housing that servicemembers get to help cover their rent.
The bonuses Trump turned them into are even now taxable at the state level. Bah humbug.
It actually gets worse, though. The total allocated by Congress for the supplement was $2.9 billion. The total for the $1776 checks all together is $2.6 billion. That leaves $300 million on the table that was supposed to go to the Troops but now will only go to them in the “future.”
Scrooged again.
And, somehow, it’s even worse than that. All of this is happening after Trump diverted $2 billion that was meant to be spent on barracks updates, refurbishment, and amenities on base and spent it on the border instead.
The grift never stops. Not even for Christmas.
I wonder if those troops are still enthused about Trump?