Another illusion shot to he**! That all vets are brothers and defend one another. Well one of them gave his Purple Heart to Trump. Remember how Trump RIDICULED John McCain and dismissed his bravery?

Some old saw about giving pearls to swine comes to mind. :-(

You are the Master of generalisations- Trump however distinguishes more finely, he trusts his gut and goes on instinct which is a very interesting thing to watch, he does not lump everyone into 'camps' he has the capacity to feel differently about different people, if you were running for president you would be loyal to to all vets regardless...I'd much rather Trump!

Or you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear? I will tell you Nim that act of the vet who gifted Trump with the purple heart shocked me. Trump said he always wanted  to have a purple heart and it was so easy to get. Then Senator Tammy Duckworth who HAS A PURPLE HEART and lost both legs in battle shared a photo of herself in the hospital after the amputation and said "this is what a purple heart looks like. There is nothing easy about it. Those who have one would rather not have gotten one" or words to that effect. I cannot believe a vet would suck up to such a one as Trump and devalue the medal he won in battle by handing it over to someone who never served in the military and never sacrificed anything. I'm in such shock that  I'm having a really hard time with it. Some say it's his medal and he can do whatever he wants to do with it. Including dishonoring it? Isn't that also dishonoring all the others who EARNED purple hearts? I don't understand the purple heart giver awayer and I understand even less those who who defend him. Maybe medals for bravery in battle mean more to me than they do to others. I never fought in a battle. I will never earn a medal. But it does not prevent me from appreciating and valuing and respecting and honoring those who did. To give one to Trump of all people? He handled the gift  in such a tacky superficial cavalier way. Shameful. I guess when I get to know you better I will tell you what I REALLY think! Thank you for your reply! :)

Trump did not say it was easy to get a purple heart.

"I always wanted to get the Purple Heart," Trump said. "This was much easier."

It was the veterans metal...he can do with it whatever he wants. He choose to give it to Trump as a symbol of his faith in Trump.
Much better than what John Kerry and others did with their metals...just throwing them away.

It may not make sense to you, Rosie, because you don't understand what motivates people to support Trump.  That's perfectly understandable inasmuch as nearly everyone who doesn't support him doesn't get it.

Simply put, millions of people identify with Trump because, like him, they are constantly maligned or outright ignored by the people who are supposed to represent them.  Irony of all ironies, they identify with Trump because they, too, have been berated, bullied, marginalized, discounted and dehumanized...and they're sick of it.  Even those who don't like Trump will support him for this reason alone.  That, and because he's just as simply not "one of 'them'."

(And just so you know, I think Trump is just about the worst mistake the American electorate have ever made.)

This was the worst insult of anything yet. 

There are NO words.

It proves money and power can buy any title, any honor, deserved or not.  Now you can be awarded even when you are getting celebrated for  getting wounded in a war you never were in.  How insulting is this to men and women who WERE wounded in war? 

  How insulting was this idiot VET who bestowed his purple heart to TRUMP?  He thinks that gesture will put him in the history books.

Yes, the 15 seconds of  notoriety book for all clueless, insecure, dysfunctional wanna-be's.    I don't know what is worse, a jerk like that getting a purple heart, or a jerk like that giving it away to some stranger he wants to impress and hope the stranger honors him. 

You saw what  TRUMP did when he got it.  NOTHING.  He made some dismissive joke about it.    That Vet should have that heart taken from him and ripped from Trump's small, greedy, lying hands.    The only purple heart Trump deservers is a heart attack. 

 

Yet you see the defensive responses and attacks for my having called attention to it. These folks are beyond my understanding. They will defend defend defend defend until the end. No matter how disgusting or revolting or repulsive or egregious. They defend. How sad is that? Thank you for your reply Sharonna. We have had our ups and downs at times over the years but when it really counts you are always there! :) ((hugs))