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Speaking at a Monday conference for U.S. military veterans in Virginia, Donald Trump suggested those who suffer from posttraumatic stress disorder when they return from war are not as “strong” as those who are able to “handle it.”
“When you talk about the mental health problems, when people come back from war and combat, and they see things that maybe a lot of the folks in this room have seen many times over — and you’re strong and you can handle it — but a lot of people can’t handle it,”
Another attempt of the left to bring the President down. Not working but keep preaching to your choir
The question is: what is your opinion of this statement made by trump?
“When you talk about the mental health problems, when people come back from war and combat, and they see things that maybe a lot of the folks in this room have seen many times over — and you’re strong and you can handle it — but a lot of people can’t handle it,”
If you can't handle trump's statements, perhaps you are not strong enough.
PTSD: Some veterans aren’t strong enough to ‘handle it’
This coming from a man who has never really suffered.
A millionaire by age 8 (thanks to daddy), inherited over 440 million dollars in total, escaped military service, can't stand the sight of blood and has no empathy for the sick and the dying nor the underprivileged and the struggling.
Yeah, this is the guy who passes judgment on PTSD sufferers ...
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Not surprising. He shows an utter lack of compassion toward our vets (isn't his base supposed to be all for caring for our vets?). In effect, Trump's old school ways are showing - namely a crude understanding of free will and mental health. If President Bonespurs hasn't been through it, he has no room to be talking about it. In short, it's sheer reptilian brainstem contempt for what he perceives as weakness and nothing more.
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Trump once again speaking of something he is totally oblivious to. What on earth makes President Bonespurs an authority on PTSD?
Uhhhh, his basebrain reptilian impulse's ways of sizing up a person's worth, perhaps?
His "knowing" that "normal, decent, self-respecting men with strong backbone" would have contempt for people who can't overcome mental trauma on their own?
Trump's idea of a soldier is some Duke Nukem look-alike who thinks M1A1 rifles are just popgun p**** sh**, throws it contemptuously to the ground, and grabs a "machine AT-4", an enhanced AT-4 that shoots 750 anti-tank rounds a minute just as a machine gun shoots 750 rounds a minute. Then, after a minute of boiling explosions, he does a Deadliest Warrior victory growl. The more cartoonishly macho the soldier, the better.
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