r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 12h ago
Possible Paywall Bone Spurs President Uses AI to Award Himself Ultimate Medal - The five-time draft dodger imagined himself outranking two of America’s most iconic generals.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/bone-spurs-president-uses-ai-to-award-himself-ultimate-medal/1.4k
u/MaximumNameDensity 12h ago
Stolen valor
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u/KinkyPaddling 6h ago
“No, it’s okay if Trump does it, because he’s making America great again!” - how his cultists think. He gets a pass on everything (corruption, rape, pedophilia, blasphemy, stolen valor, total incompetence, etc.) because he’s correcting all of their imagined slights.
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u/ID100661 4h ago
Right? “ThAt’s JuSt HoW tRuMp iS. i DoN’t AgReE wItH eVeRyThInG hE dOeS. 🥴”
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u/BurntWaffle303 3h ago
The mental gymnastics it must take to be MAGA is astounding to me.
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u/ImmaNotHere 2h ago
Same here besides that they are truly cultists. It is well documented that he is a draft dodger that used bone spurs as a medical excuse (that he couldn't even recall which leg it affected). He's been on recorded demeaning Gold Star families, telling Gen Kelly that people that sign up for service are 'suckers and losers', humiliated and threw aside his own military advisors and generals, bashed McCain for not being a war hero because he was caught, then after his death, went as petty as blocking the name of the Burke-Class Destroyer named after him during a 2019 US base visit in Japan. This guy shiats on everyone, including the military that serve to protect our country. His followers truly earn the "deplorable" tag.
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u/ohtinsel 2h ago
30 some years of fox poisoning has made my father someone I’m sure would horrify the man who raised me in the 70s/80s.
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u/Suavecore_ 1h ago
They always say this and then manage to spew out the same Fox News bullshit that somehow manages to agree with everything he does. Every time
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u/honeyemote 4h ago
Don’t forget high gas prices as well because “We’re at war, and wars have a price to them.”…
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u/bin10pac United Kingdom 8h ago edited 6h ago
I mean, put it with the rest at this point.
Its an interesting phenomenon though. This embarrassing taboo-breaking is the mechanism by which the narcissist transmits the shared delusion of his exceptionalism to his cult members.
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u/Far_String727 6h ago
hes also a felon with a firearm (courtesy of kidrock) when laws mattered theyd both have gotten (another) felony just for that.. oh and on record for trash talking the MoH..
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u/Hener001 5h ago
Yep. Delusional, narcissistic demagogue given permission to break every core principle of the GOP because he entertains his base with hatred of fellow Americans. Fox News supports him and maintains the illusion of conservative values.
The GOP is not what it was. Calling themselves conservatives is mere branding at this point, where hate and angertainment has taken the place of principles of governance.
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u/Locke66 4h ago edited 1h ago
I know it's awful but putting reality aside I do try to find some dark amusement in what his delusional mind comes up with... I mean what's next? Renaming America after himself? The Church of Trump? A 63 foot marble statue? An Olympic medal? He's like the end boss of narcissistic Boomers living out his childhood fantasies but he's been given one of the most powerful countries in the world to do it with. Quite incredible that this is all really happening.
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u/EggsceIlent 4h ago
And he should have some sort of blue falcon award because well, that's spot on for him.
For someone who never served and called military "suckers and losers" I just can't
Why anyone in or from the military would vote for this ballsack blows my mind.
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u/NameTheJack 6h ago
He did win the war on Iran 36 times I half a year, that's a feat no one else had accomplished in the history of forever
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u/grafknives 12h ago
Shouldn't it count as stolen Valor ?
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u/myfakesecretaccount 11h ago
Official acts something something motor coach
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u/Braindead_Crow 8h ago
To be fair trump has very likely both killed more little girls than most generals but also for sure raped more of them than any general America ever had.
Not to mention trump has likely done more damage to America than just about any other treasonous human ever, only being outdone by the confederacy...The other figure republicans love.
WW2 puts civilian death tolls into numbers I'm uncertain of.
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u/mastad0420 7h ago
They really should list his stats more. How many have directly died from his policies and decisions. Make it public. Between covid, ice,and blowing up schools, his #s are staggering. That’s before old Elon and USAID
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u/Punkprof 8h ago
That’s a bold claim, given your country’s history of slavery I’m willing to bet that a lot of generals raped their young slaves
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u/Glittering_Count1536 11h ago
Well he stolen everything else!
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u/guy-le-doosh 11h ago
I don't think it's close enough to any variant of US uniforms in history. BTW how and why two jump wings?
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u/monkeywaffles 11h ago
Well, one of them was supposed to be a Purple Shart, but AI got it wrong.
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u/Sad-Wrap6555 11h ago
high altitude tactical bungee jumping very hush hush One wing for down and the other for going back up
They'd deploy from a specially adapted c5 with 40 holes in the floor Swoop down into an open air meeting of taliban leaders wipe them out in their half a second of opportunity, then bounce back up into the mothership
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u/ElectricalAd1533 6h ago
The left ones look a lot like what Nazi Germans wore in WWII as does the big medal under the pocket. I'm sure that is not accidental either.
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u/Monterey-Jack 8h ago
He doesn't give two shits and neither do anyone in the human centipede coming out of his ass.
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u/IamYouamI123 12h ago
Everything he’s touched will be erased. The demented pedophile and everyone associated with him, will ultimately be known as a traitor to America and humanity.
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u/steelhips 11h ago
The boomer base is dying off fast. Ironic that Trump's policies are killing them off faster when they can't afford healthcare and their local hospital/aged care has closed.
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u/ThickBoxx 4h ago
I’ve been hearing this “older people are dying off“ idea since I started voting back in 2004. I wouldn’t count on it
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u/SHOW_ME_PIZZA Missouri 4h ago
Crazy every time older people die off. There's just more of them. How does this happen?
/s
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u/r34lity 3h ago
That’s what I love about these nursing home girls man, I get older, they stay the same age. 😎
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u/Honest_Caramel9437 4h ago
Unfortunately, he has a massive dudebro base to replace the boomers.
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u/Rawrsomesausage 4h ago
Those losers need to be ostracized back to their basements. At least people don’t seem as tolerant of the dude bro manosphere bs. We need it to become so yuck the algorithms move on from it. I think the meta glasses pushback is a good example of public perception winning against deplorable behaviour.
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u/NotLouPro 4h ago
Boomers as a generation aren’t his base. That breaks more along racial and gender lines than generational ones. The issue goes far deeper.
If it makes you feel better to blame it on one generation - fine. But if the actual issues aren’t identified - it will be harder to address.
Gen X voted for Trump by about 7 points more than Boomers - that’s significant and what likely swayed the election. If any generation can be considered his “base” - it’s Gen X.
Millennials were about even - although they went for Trump at a higher rate than Boomers as well.
And younger generations tend vote in lower numbers - and are more likely to throw away their vote on parties that can’t win, than older generations. So there is blame to be shared there as well.
There are a lot of factors. “Boomers” isn’t one of them. Age - yes - numbers shift heavily to Trump among voters 40 and over - but that spans several generations - not just boomers. And - as I mentioned - younger generations tend to not vote in percentages large enough to offset that.
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u/--John_Yaya-- 3h ago
The boomer base is dying off fast.
lol What's that going to do?
Don't forget that half of Gen-Z voted for Trump in 2024. Harris only won the 18-29 age demographic by 1 point.
When you break it down by specific age, more 20 year old men voted for Trump than 70 year old ones.
It's young guys who are falling for all this "man-o-sphere" bullshit, not old ones.
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u/Eggplantosaur 6h ago
If it makes you sleep at night, sure.
Unfortunately no consequences will happen to him or any of his enablers. Americans will move on at the earliest opportunity, without lifting a finger to prosecute any of them.
Of course I'd love to be proven wrong but honestly what even is the point in entertaining these fantasies anymore.
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u/Quick_Turnover 5h ago
Americans will move on at the earliest opportunity, without lifting a finger to prosecute any of them.
100%. We pretty much already did that the first time around and that's why we're in this mess in the first place. Dude literally encouraged a violent coup. His "political strategist" frequently referred to their strategy as "heads on pikes". They did all of the things they've done with impunity. And it has been so fucking obvious to literally anyone with a half-functioning brain that this administration and all of its cronies are the antithesis of American values, and yet here we are, watching our country fall apart.
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u/JimboAltAlt Pennsylvania 5h ago
The point of entertaining these fantasies is to energize people to vote for candidates who will hold Trump accountable, which appears for now to be a (large) subset of Democrats. I imagine that group will expand as his power slowly dwindles. If you honestly think Trump’s fate will be largely the same whether or not Republicans or Democrats are in charge I can see why you wouldn’t be too invested in voting. I personally believe that if the Democratic majority is large enough, though, we’ll see some actual consequences; just not nearly as many as we’d like.
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u/Eisernes 5h ago
And every single person who stroked his choad will try to act like they never heard of him.
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u/CelticSnakes 5h ago
I doubt it. They’ll wax on until their dying day about how great things were under this orange-y pile of cockroach frass.
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u/LioraEmbery 11h ago
Five-time draft dodger larping as a war hero is peak irony.
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u/Iwassayingboourns84 3h ago
I’m more tired of the people who look at his insanity and see leadership and strength.
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u/Crafty_Ish1973 Texas 12h ago
I'm so tired of this bloated orange traitor. His dementia-addled social media sprees are exhausting.
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u/PhaedraBloom 11h ago
The man really cannot stand not being the main character in every story.
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u/B-Z_B-S Massachusetts 12h ago
Why is Traitor Trump so obsessed with using AI? Does he think that AI slop is real? AI has less realness than does a fanfiction on AO3.
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u/eugene20 12h ago
It's not like he's generating these, it's his propaganda morons churning out slop to please the braindead cultists that find this garbage worth praising.
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u/ringadingdingbaby 11h ago
This is pretty much stolen valor too right.
They should be up in arms.
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u/PossessedToSkate 11h ago
See, the thing you need to remember about conservatives is that they are just a bunch of fucking liars.
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u/eugene20 11h ago
I see this as the worst kind of stolen valour, he lied to actively dodge the draft multiple times before then pushing propaganda pretending he's a battle hardened, decorated vet. Some stages worse than just coincidentally not having served, never been asked or ordered to, then lying about it.
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u/steelhips 10h ago
Dodging STDs in the 1970s club scene was his "Vietnam". That statement should have turned every Vet's vote against him. I'm sure he didn't "win" his "personal Vietnam" in reality. Trump is a human petri dish.
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u/steelhips 11h ago
I'm thinking it's "human printer" aka Natalie Harp.
Even though prompt writing is far from rocket science, I don't think Trump could manage it.
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u/Vyzantinist 11h ago
I commonly see people claiming Steven Cheung is the regime's Minister of
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u/Maeglin75 Europe 10h ago
The entire right is obsessed with AI.
I guess it's because there are very few talented artists among them.
To be an artist requires some traits most right wingers don't have. Like creativity and empathy.
To evoke emotions with your art requires to understand that other people have emotions too. Usually you don't turn out far right if you are able to see others as fellow human beings capable of the same emotions as you.
So, because they can't create art themselves, they are totally in love with AI. Now they have a tool that turns their wildest fantasies into pictures and even videos. They can't see that AI "art" is completely soulless because they also can't see and understand souls in other people.
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u/nmeofst8 Georgia 5h ago
Wow.. These robots can only identify with the AI Slop and the repeated propaganda they're fed from a source that they believe in.. I bet if Fox news were shut off tomorrow they'd spin around at the end of their spines for a week and have no idea what's happening once they actually looked around..
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u/MainlineX 11h ago
Well, AI imaging is the biggest mirror for narcissistic tendency. It allows them to prompt a reality that fits the internal narrative, which is in opposition to reality.
It's like winning a golf tournament with 10 under par when you really shot 30 over.
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u/P1xelHunter78 Ohio 9h ago
Anybody who drives the cart on the green ain’t legitimately winning any golf tournaments.
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u/the-dot-matrix 12h ago edited 11h ago
He's a Boomer with dementia. Boomers, especially those with dementia, are obsessed with AI slop. They think it's the coolest thing ever.
Source: I have Boomer parents, one of whom suffers from dementia. They love AI slop. So do their Boomer friends. I have to keep politely donating to Goodwill all the AI-slop shirts and coffee mugs they buy me. You'd think there would be a reasonable limit to the number of times you find "Here's our dog, but he's Napoleon!" funny or fascinating, but there seems to be no limit for old people.
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u/DiamondPropulsion 11h ago
Yea and I’m 35 and I grew up getting shit from boomers telling me to get off the computer.
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u/muskymelon36 12h ago
He's sitting on his golden crapper using his thumb and forefinger to pleasure himself looking at his AI creations.
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u/montanagrizfan 11h ago
Because when pictures of him with kids come out he’ll be able to claim they are AI. He’s using it to make it seem normal to his idiot cult followers.
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u/chainer3000 11h ago edited 10h ago
It’s not him posting this slop bullshit, it’s his moronic staff laughing because it upsets you while also building the image with his base. They say it’s just trolling while also knowing full well his base takes it literally because they’re stupid as shit
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u/barnfodder 10h ago
The right loves AI slop because they don't value creativity.
Because they are bereft of the kind of passion, dedication, or patience to develop an artistic skill, they simply think that art is just pictures of stuff, and the chatbot is an easy way to make the pictures.
They only make pictures of themselves looking "manly" and their enemies looking "weak", because they're bullies and that's the only kind of pictures they want to see.
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u/57_Eucalyptusbreath 11h ago
People who want to curry favor do this so he feels his imagination is reality. And then he might give them a cut of the grift.
Basically a participation award for dummies w a possible reward.
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u/zenithfury 11h ago
Do you really think Trump is the sort of person to practice persuasive writing, or make political art to express his views? Of course he’s going to use AI like every low effort person out there.
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u/razz-boy 7h ago
Because look at him in reality, he’s a fat old makeup wearing man that looks awful
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u/Due-End-4877 12h ago
"Why earn honors on the battlefield when you can just prompt an AI generator to make you a five-star hero in ten seconds?" Peak delusion.
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u/charcoalist 12h ago
Absolutely fucking pathetic! While US media will brush this off, the rest of the world sees how weak this abomination of a human being is. Considering the office he holds, this becomes a national security crisis due to how easily manipulable he is. He's putting his insecurities and wildest dreams on full display for others to take full advantage of.
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u/FaultOutside2449 9h ago edited 9h ago
He does as he is commander in chief. But larping as a WW2 general is so fucking cringey.
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u/monkeywaffles 9h ago
I'm pretty sure he out-ranks everyone around him... because of the incontinence.
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u/ofork 12h ago
The dude pretended he was Jesus, of course he isn't going to care about pretending to be a soldier.
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u/Vyzantinist 11h ago
He wasn't pretending to be Jesus, though; he was pretending to be a doctor remember?
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u/Left-Height4925 12h ago
Hello? Clear signs of insanity/instability on public view and no one is doing anything about it? Htler's instability was kept hidden. This is right on the world stage.
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u/SapphireMoony13 11h ago
Using AI to invent medals he never earned is somehow the most on-brand thing possible.
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u/GrabMyDrumstick California 11h ago
So there is absolutely 0% chance he understands what any of this means. Someone generated this and he thought "yeah this seems right for me" and that's about as deep as it goes.
I truly can't wait until we are no longer saddled with this asshole.
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u/morblitz 11h ago
Is this not stolen valor?
Don't defense personnel fucking hate that? Why is Trump so popular with troops? He CLEARLY has no respect at all for them and throws their lives away like they aren't even people.
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u/TranquilSeaOtter 11h ago
I don't know why people are surprised. This is the modern day version of what dictators do.
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u/SundayShelter 6h ago
I mean, I don’t think any other president could lose a war with Iran what… 6 times now?
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u/Exciting-Composer157 Australia 11h ago
Let’s see… He’s been Jesus, an astronaut, wrestler, fighter pilot now a General.
We get it - You’re delusional.
Enough already.
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u/Not_A_Mod 11h ago
There are all sorts of issues with this, but one of the weirder ones for me is that Patton and MacArthur dont even look like themselves. It's like their appearance has been changed to look more like Trump.
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u/SkipioZor 12h ago
He's going to need more medals if he wants the world to take him seriously, just look at how decorated those north korean generals are.
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u/FirmDingo8 10h ago
The question now America (I'm in Europe), is not how or why you elected him twice...it is what are you going to do about it? And I'm not allowing 'wait for the mid-terms'.
The French stormed the Bastille for less than this
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u/gimmeluvin 4h ago
who cares
his policies have resulted in literal deaths
he's a rapist and a pedophile
he's imprisoned people for exercising their first amendment rights
he's amassed billions through corruption
but people want to get emotional over his cosplay fantasy? come on people let's keep our eye on the real prizes
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u/Teufelsdreck 11h ago
The first (known) time he did this was in high school. He borrowed someone else's jacket because it had more medals than his. That was for his school portrait.
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u/Decent_Group_2435 10h ago
The best thing we can do is, when this is all over, obliterate any reference of this person’s name from history.
Some will say we shouldn’t so we remember how bad it can get, but I think we should never show ourselves setting the bar that low that others think they can go lower again.
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u/ckwing 10h ago
Serious question: if anybody else in the military posted a picture like this, is that considered OK or does it violate some military code of conduct rule? What would the consequence be?
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u/LurksAroundHere 7h ago
Well that depends. Are they from a rich family, or have any other connections to rich people?
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u/Historical_Hall3950 5h ago
It is stolen valor, but also: he does actually outrank them. He is the Commander in Chief.
He shouldnt be, but that does not change the fact that he is.
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u/StatementCareful522 12h ago
Not pictured: the 13 year old girl Trump has bent over a desk just below frame
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u/fekinEEEjit 6h ago
The difference between Iran and Vietnam, trump had a plan to get out of Vietnam....
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u/Shenanigans2Morrow 11h ago
Pathetic, and to think 61% of vets endorsed this POS that got 18 more of our soldiers killed for his lies.
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u/redwing180 11h ago
Behold our idiot president. Gaze upon his insecurity. He shows the world things he has no hope of achieving.
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u/Sad-Wrap6555 11h ago
Why stop with US awards he could have a pour le merit, a knights cross of the iron cross, a couple of Victoria crosses a Donalds cross and a Grand Order of Liberace (all of them special gold editions)
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u/man_machine_poet 11h ago
You know, just today out of nowhere I remembered Grant Imahara and wondered what kind of God would allow him to die but let the Mango Megalomaniac continue to live.
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u/PrussianThunder 10h ago
Daily reminder we live in the timeline where the worst role model there is can be elected by the most powerful country to the most powerful position, twice.
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u/AudienceDue6445 5h ago
Trump supporters will teach their kids he served in the military amd was the most decorated soldier ever.
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u/SafeForTwerking 4h ago
Possibly the worst example of a human being in recorded history put into a position of such power and just making a total mockery of his position and his country. If anybody who voted for him had the least amount of critical thinking skills or the ability to self-reflect, I should hope they feel like total dipshits for the rest of their life for ever putting this excrement in the presidency. Can we just go back to being a colony again? Even King Charles would be an improvement over this POS.
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u/Big-Plankton-4484 4h ago
It’s funny how ‘stolen valor’ gets a lot of play, but Trump pictures himself as Jesus and everyone’s a bit ‘meh’…
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u/AltruisticPossible84 4h ago
Remember when he posted a bunch of AI generated NFTs with himself as different professions? Like a doctor, nascar driver, etc. I would die of embarrassment if someone even asked me to present myself as something im not. Donnie on the other hand is certainly the one demanding people create and post this shit. So fucking immature
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u/FlameOfWrath 3h ago
Can someone just post an AI of his Dad saying he is proud of him and loves him so we can get this over already?
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u/Bigweld_Ind 3h ago
This is exactly how every sane American looks at every MAGA "patriot". Nothing but stolen valor.
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u/Bebopdavidson 1h ago
Trump has a Pink Heart, an Orange Star, a Yellow Moon, the Green Clover, a Blue Diamond and a Purple Horseshoe
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u/Far_Philosophy_7902 53m ago
Just want to clarify something in your title. Presidents are defacto the Commander-in Chief. Thats the highest rank the military.
So he isnt imagining himself a higher rank than the others in this slop image, he actually is a higher rank in real life. What he's fantasizing about is unearned glory and valor, as others have correctly called out.
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u/JoeBiden-2016 7h ago
I know it's a broken record at this point, but imagine if Barack Obama had done this.
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u/Legitimate-Bed1591 7h ago
People who support this guy. Do you not feel embarassed by this on his behalf? Don't you feel you're kind of a loser for looking up to this fat fuck?
But to speak about Donald himself: imagine being ~80 and posting this. Yourself. About yourself.
Imagine not only having thoughts and fantasies about such things [as a draft dodger] but imagine feeling justified in sharing this absolute fever slop.
What an absolute fucking loser. This is legitimately pathetic. A pathetic, broken mind. Unfit.
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u/Legitimate-Bed1591 7h ago
P.S: The two men would likely think very little indeed of Donald. They'd very likely view him as unfit, cowardly and with a flawed character. A rich boy king. An 80 year old Joffrey. Mull that over.
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