Before the 2024 US election: Republicans rage over Trump's "idiotic comments"

FR Before the 2024 US election: Republicans rage over Trump's "idiotic comments" Article by Paul Luka Schneider • 28 million • 3 minutes reading time Putting his foot in it Before the 2024 US election: Republicans rage over Trump's "idiotic comments" Donald Trump has messed up with one clientele before the 2024 US election: war veterans. Their merits are only second class. Washington, D.C. - Extraordinary commitment is often priceless. When people commit themselves to other people in society, help, support, promote ideas, stay up all night or even take great risks to protect others. Such achievements cannot actually be compared fairly from a moral point of view. But the Republican presidential candidate in the 2024 US election, Donald Trump, apparently thinks so. Donald Trump compares apples and oranges ahead of the 2024 US election - and is met with anger Last Thursday (August 15), Trump spoke at a campaign event in New Jersey about medals of merit in the United States. The background was the work of Miriam Adelson. The 78-year-old doctor, one of the richest women in the world, is close to the Republican Party and supports it with donations. In 2018, Trump, then US President, awarded her the so-called Presidential Medal of Freedom - one of the two highest civilian awards in the United States. It is awarded to people who have made or are making lasting and demonstrable contributions to security, the national interests of the USA or world peace, for example. Adelson opened two research centers to curb drug abuse. Her family has also set up a foundation to combat life-threatening diseases. The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the same counterpart as the Congressional Medal of Honor, the highest military award given by the American government to deserving soldiers, Trump said, but added: "But the civilian version is actually much better, because everyone who receives the Congressional Medal of Honor is a soldier. They are either in very bad shape because they have been hit by bullets so many times, or they are dead." Lack of sensitivity before the 2024 US election: Donald Trump is messing things up with parts of the US Army Evil sarcasm in the wrong place, which made Trump an enemy for many veterans in the USA. In an interview with the US television channel CNN last Sunday (August 18), a Republican party colleague of Trump, Chris Sununu, also agreed with the opinion of the US organization for war veterans, Veterans of Foreign Wars: "Yes, they are stupid comments. There is no doubt about that.” The governor of New Hampshire then continued to attack Trump and his often ill-considered speeches: “I don’t think these are the first idiotic comments former President Trump has ever made.” In a live conversation with Tesla and X boss Elon Musk, Trump recently made 20 false statements. Chris Sununu, possible Republican candidate in the 2024 US election Sununu does not see a push for the 2024 US election or the mobilization of a certain clientele that Trump probably hoped to achieve with the statement: “I don’t think these comments will have a decisive influence on the election.” He immediately shook his head again: “When you talk about what it takes for someone to stand up and protect this country, it is incomparable. As far as this honor goes, it is unique, especially when you talk about the Congressional Medal of Honor.” Association before the 2024 US election about Donald Trump: “He doesn’t care about our military and its victims” The US organization Veterans for Responsible Leadership, meanwhile, put its finger on the sore spot when it wrote that Trump considers the military award “secondary to the medal he awards to his billionaire donors. He doesn’t care about our military and its victims.” Sununu then gave Trump some factual advice for the election campaign before the 2024 US election: “If Trump ever addresses the issue of the military, he must focus on what it takes to keep America strong in the world. How to ensure world peace in dangerous places like Ukraine or Israel.” While the Ukraine war is heating up after the Kursk advance, Israel is currently in peace negotiations after the Hamas attack. (pls)