$$$ Trump Pimping our troops for a price. $$$$

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[QUOTE=kudzu;2792348]Trump is all about campaign rallies... Haven't you noticed?[/QUOTE No...do you follow him that religiously??? this wasn't a campaign rally, though...
Wonderful pictures from the trip, btw Lots of happiness....Check them out....

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Trump is all about campaign rallies... Haven't you noticed?[/QUOTE No...do you follow him that religiously??? this wasn't a campaign rally, though...
Wonderful pictures from the trip, btw Lots of happiness....Check them out....

As long as it made Trump happy..............


Washington (AFP) - President Donald Trump may have inadvertently unmasked a Navy SEAL team during his short visit to a US base in Iraq this week. Ordinarily, the whereabouts of special operations forces are a closely held secret.


https://news.yahoo.com/trump-tweets-...8xBHNlYwNzcg--

Ordinarily, the whereabouts of special operations forces are a closely held secret. In the rare instances when they are filmed while in a combat zone, their faces and other identifying features are usually blurred out.

But after his lightning trip to Al-Asad Air Base in western Iraq on Wednesday, Trump tweeted a video of him posing for photos with US troops, shaking their hands and signing mementos.

In one scene, he is giving a thumbs up alongside a group of what appear to be special operations forces.

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As long as it made Trump happy..............


Washington (AFP) - President Donald Trump may have inadvertently unmasked a Navy SEAL team during his short visit to a US base in Iraq this week. Ordinarily, the whereabouts of special operations forces are a closely held secret.


https://news.yahoo.com/trump-tweets-...8xBHNlYwNzcg--

Ordinarily, the whereabouts of special operations forces are a closely held secret. In the rare instances when they are filmed while in a combat zone, their faces and other identifying features are usually blurred out.

But after his lightning trip to Al-Asad Air Base in western Iraq on Wednesday, Trump tweeted a video of him posing for photos with US troops, shaking their hands and signing mementos.

In one scene, he is giving a thumbs up alongside a group of what appear to be special operations forces.

Everything is fine...I told you...no harm done...that's from the office of the Secretary of Defense...look it up.
then go watch the inspiring videos of the troops during the visit...
Keep trying if you must, but you've got a nothing but yet another H8burger....

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Everything is fine...I told you...no harm done...that's from the office of the Secretary of Defense...look it up.
then go watch the inspiring videos of the troops during the visit...
Keep trying if you must, but you've got a nothing but yet another H8burger....

Look.. Most presidents avoid politicizing the US military. Trump has no such qualms.

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Look.. Most presidents avoid politicizing the US military. Trump has no such qualms.

I don't see "politicizing"...(how unfortunate that you do...not that it matters, though

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The quote thing is screwed up...

I don't see "politicizing"...(how unfortunate that you do...not that it matters, though[/QUOTE]



Politicizing the Military Is Uniformly Wrong

Trump’s visit to U.S. troops was marred by overtly political rhetoric. That’s not normal—but his defenders don’t care.


he surprise visit by President Donald Trump to military personnel in Iraq and Germany the day after Christmas was a particularly welcome development, given his previous departure from this time-honored tradition of his predecessors around the holiday season.

The visits were marred, however, by the president’s overtly political rhetoric and by his encouragement of the small number of uniformed personnel who offered him their “Make America Great Again” hats to sign, or who displayed campaign banners. It’s the latest instance of the erosion of long-standing commitments to apolitical institutions—and the comparative indifference with which these acts were greeted ought to worry all of us.

Employees of the U.S. government, in general, face restrictions on the “political activity” in which they can engage in the workplace. Uniformed members of the U.S. military are arguably held to a high standard of nonpolitical behavior, even outside the workplace and particularly while in uniform.

The presence of campaign paraphernalia at a presidential visit—and the president’s blithe disregard for protocol in choosing to sign some of that paraphernalia, to say nothing of his politically tinged speech to military personnel in a war zone—runs afoul of at least the spirit, if not the letter, of written rules such as Department of Defense Directive 1344.10 (Political Activities) and Uniform Code of Military Justice Article 88 (Contempt Toward Officials) and Article 134 (General Article).

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/newso...ong/ar-BBRuIYC

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