Trump mocks fallen soldiers - "That's disgusting"

WAZ Trump mocks fallen soldiers - "That's disgusting" Article by Ben Bünte • 2 days • 3 minutes reading time When Donald Trump deviates from the script, it becomes dangerous - for himself. The Republican presidential candidate gave a speech at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, to one of his wealthiest supporters, Miriam Adelson, jokes from casino magnate Sheldon Adelson. The 78-year-old is said to have recently upset the multi-billionaire with unfriendly news, reported the "New York Times". Accordingly, he went all out on Thursday (US local time). Trump recalled how, as president, he had awarded Adelson the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the USA. Donald Trump: Medal of Freedom better than Medal of Honor for soldiers Then Trump said: "This is the highest award you can get as a civilian, the equivalent of the Congressional Medal of Honor, but in the civilian version. It's actually much better because everyone gets the Congressional Medal of Honor - that's the soldiers. They're either in very bad shape because they've been hit by bullets so many times, or they're dead." The comments caused outrage. Kamala Harris' campaign wrote in an initial reaction on social media: "This is disgusting." A lengthy statement from the Harris team said: "Donald Trump knows nothing about serving anyone or anything but himself. His insulting of Medal of Honor recipients, just as he has previously attacked Gold Star families, mocked prisoners of war, and called those who lost their lives in service to our country 'suckers' and 'losers,' should remind all Americans that we owe it to our soldiers, our country, and our future to ensure that Donald Trump never again becomes our nation's commander in chief." Trump allegedly mocked fallen soldiers as "suckers" and "losers" What the statement alludes to: This is not the first time Trump has mocked veterans. The former president said of the now deceased Senator John McCain, who survived more than five years as a prisoner of war and refused an earlier release because he refused to be given preferential treatment over his comrades, that he was not a war hero. "I like people who were not captured," said Trump before his election to the Oval Office. In 2020, there was a media report that Trump refused to visit a cemetery with fallen US soldiers on a trip to France. He had privately called the soldiers "idiots" and "losers". Trump denied the report. Trump is said to have invented an injury to avoid military service Trump himself did not serve in the US Army. He was discharged and thus avoided deployment in the Vietnam War. His former lawyer Michael Cohen stated that Trump admitted to him that he had invented an injury to avoid military service. Against this background, the statements made by his running mate J.D. Vance, who had repeatedly attacked Kamala Harris' running mate Tim Walz for allegedly abandoning his troops when they were deployed to Iraq. Walz had already left the National Guard at the time of the order, after 24 years of service. At the same time, he defended Trump after his recent comments. "I understand that President Trump said some nice things about a person who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom during a ceremony. He said some praising things about them," Vance said, but admitted that he had not seen the entire speech. And he continued: "This is a man who loves our veterans and who honors our veterans. I don't think the compliment and the nice words he says about a person is in any way a denigration of those who receive military honors."