Privately, aides say Trump fears visiting troops: "He's afraid... afraid people want to kill him."

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1 8m8 minutes ago
"He's never been interested in going," a former senior White House official said of Trump visiting troops in a combat zone, citing conversations with the president. "He's afraid of those situations. He's afraid people want to kill him." https://t.co/5ACv8CgCJL

President Trump has begun telling advisers that he may visit troops in a combat zone for the first time in his presidency, as he has come under increasing scrutiny for his treatment of military affairs and failure to visit service members deployed to Afghanistan or Iraq.

Trump has so far declined to visit those combat regions, saying he does not want to associate himself with wars he views as failures, according to current and former advisers, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private conversations. Current advisers said Trump is not expected to visit a war zone during the Thanksgiving break, which he will spend at his Mar-a-Lago golf resort in Florida...

In meetings about a potential visit, he has described the missions in Iraq and Afghanistan as “a total shame,” according to the advisers. He also cited the long flights and potential security risks as reasons he has avoided combat-zone visits, they said...

Trump has spoken privately about his fears over risks to his own life, according to a former senior White House official, who has discussed the issue with the president and spoke on the condition of anonymity to speak candidly about Trump’s concerns

“He’s never been interested in going,” the official said of Trump visiting troops in a combat zone, citing conversations with the president. “He’s afraid of those situations. He’s afraid people want to kill him.”

read: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/white-house-discusses-possible-trump-visit-to-troops-in-iraq-or-afghanistan/2018/11/19/9f6724d8-ec2a-11e8-96d4-0d23f2aaad09_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.b805536ff781

[irisblue]

1. 🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔

🐣🐣🐣🐣🐣🐣

[Blue Owl]

2. Chickenshit

Pansy-ass, wimpy chickenshit...

[Jeffersons Ghost]

22. Like some other leaders of superpowers, he is a liar and coward!

Is this correct? #11th reply...

[Zorro]

74. Our Manchurian Cantaloupe is a poltroon

[Thomas Hurt]

3. Well the Rake has one thing right the US has enemies and they just might want to hurt a President.

He doesn't show much faith in our military though.

[ooky]

36. Don't know why our enemies would want to hurt him.

Our enemies should be delighted he's squatting in our White House and poisoning our country, looting our people, and wasting our resources on his nonsense.

[Fuzzpope]

55. Heh

I think he's talking about our military, not the enemy, haha.

And that speaks volumes. Nobody can say that he is/was an ignorant, empty vessel the Republicans corrupted and manipulated, if he has mortal terror of his own troops as a consequence of his own actions, he has comprehensive awereness that he has done things WRONG, or straight up fucking EVIL, because I don't care what anybody says, he's no savant or otherwise mentally challenged individual, that man knows he has indulged the Darkside and like anyone with even half a brain, he's afraid of the inevitable payback.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

67. Frag? No way. I think he fears someone who's foreign, who loves the American People, or the russians

to shut him up. He has passed his expiry date now.
He's a coward. Remember the tough guy campaign speeches about wanting to punch people out..? Tough guy...POSER.
There have been political icons that stood and delivered speeches knowing they could be hit right in the face w a bullet. Kennedy comes to mind. There'd been murmurings. Others as well, Bobby was always a target and gave brilliant speeches courageously. Martin Luther King especially knew a day or two ahead he was going to be taken a shot at, and he said the "We're all going to the mountaintop, I may not get there with you, but..." pretty sure those AREN'T the right words but the point is, I've seen him give that speech and he bravely persevered. If you're the president you GOD DAMN stand and deliver. You do it for every Soldier, Sailor, Airman and Marine, but also for each of us individually (Each just as important as they, bc these folks have sworn to die for us. As citizens, Americans. Think about that.).
He is a total shameful disgrace. Illegitimate and grifting. Self dealing, russian sympathizer treating himself to the very finest, and insulting Americans daily on his rants.
Fake news my Ass. And bulletin for the peasants (that you KNOW isn't fake either..)...back to the fields and NO healthcare for you, and the roads are SO bad, we've decided to go back to dirt roads...more of that to come.

[niyad]

93. welcome to du

[Lochloosa]

4. Legitimate worry.

[Leghorn21]

5. Yeah, but PUBLICLY he said

President Donald Trump said Monday that he would have charged into a Florida school during the shooting there earlier this month even if he were unarmed.

"I really believe I’d run in there even if I didn’t have a weapon," Trump told governors meeting at the White House to discuss school safety.

So which is it, ASSHOLE FUCKING PUNK FAUX TOUGH GUY MOBSTER MOTHERFUCKER

[safeinOhio]

12. Big mouth...

....little balls.

[riversedge]

53. I thought of this comment of Trumps when I read the OP headline.

[ornotna]

6. What a coward

🐓🐓🐓🐓🐁🐓🐓🐓🐓❄️

[mucifer]

7. I wouldn't be surprised if President Obama had the same fears. But, they have secret

service and the Presidents are supposed to respect the troops.

[exxo1111]

57. Trump Fears the Military

Obama had real reason to fear assassination-being the first African-American President. Trump should fear the military-he should fear assassination. He deals with people that kill first and ask questions later--and I don't mean the American military. He is very afraid of being poisoned to-and this fear did not start with his Presidency. He's a mobster-like most mobster-he fears being killed by his own kind.

[UniteFightBack]

8. What's the problem...??? There will be good guys with guns there. nt

[reACTIONary]

32. +10 !!! nt

[ProudLib72]

38. Exactly!

Surrounded by good guys with guns. What's there to fear?

Oh yeah...

[MaryMagdaline]

9. All presidents are afraid of dying.

The good ones overcome their fears and do their job.

[RockRaven]

10. I normally don't laugh at people's fears, but I'll make an exception: HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

I think it is more likely he won't go because he knows he'll feel inadequate and inferior to the people supposedly beneath him.

[TheCowsCameHome]

11. Pshaw! Show 'em, Donald. Everyone loves you, right?

...or maybe not.

[Solly Mack]

13. Coward. Idiot. Despicable human. Liar. Filth. Garbage. Scum.

Pathetic. Complete waste of space and oxygen.

[smirkymonkey]

20. +1000

Well put.

[Solly Mack]

23. And it applies to all Trumps.

Reading about IT's email problems and thinking of their hypocrisy and her claiming ignorance about the rules.

I am so tried of them. They're nothing but trash.

[reACTIONary]

35. Aw, come on now....

...... tell us what you REALY think.

[Solly Mack]

46. I could get banned for that.

[Hekate]

71. Oh yeah

[bdamomma]

92. I think most of us would

if we shared our true feelings about this POS!

[rickford66]

14. The troops KNOW someone is trying to kill them !!

Yet Trump isn't conflicted about sending them in harms way.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

15. How many times did Obama and Biden visit the troops?

A LOT I bet.

[reACTIONary]

39. On one visit...

.... Obama got on tge court and played basketball with them,

[JonLP24]

78. Zone 1 at Camp Arif Jan, Kuwait

I was stationed at Arif Jan. Zone 1 is an important area with CENTCOM. It has a mall and an olympic size swimming pool.

Camp Arif Jan is a safe place though no one should fear going there.



Sen. Obama addresses servicemembers and civilians during his visit to Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, July 18. Barack Obama 2008 Kuwait 24

https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-sen-obama-addresses-servicemembers-and-civilians-during-his-visit-129525199.html?pv=1&stamp=2&imageid=DB83CC80-2DFE-41FC-BF65-83BC6A0105A9&p=370272&n=0&orientation=0&pn=1&searchtype=0&IsFromSearch=1&srch=foo%3dbar%26st%3d0%26pn%3d1%26ps%3d100%26sortby%3d2%26resultview%3dsortbyPopular%26npgs%3d0%26qt%3dcamp%2520arifjan%26qt_raw%3dcamp%2520arifjan%26lic%3d3%26mr%3d0%26pr%3d0%26ot%3d0%26creative%3d%26ag%3d0%26hc%3d0%26pc%3d%26blackwhite%3d%26cutout%3d%26tbar%3d1%26et%3d0x000000000000000000000%26vp%3d0%26loc%3d0%26imgt%3d0%26dtfr%3d%26dtto%3d%26size%3d0xFF%26archive%3d1%26groupid%3d%26pseudoid%3d%26a%3d%26cdid%3d%26cdsrt%3d%26name%3d%26qn%3d%26apalib%3d%26apalic%3d%26lightbox%3d%26gname%3d%26gtype%3d%26xstx%3d0%26simid%3d%26saveQry%3d%26editorial%3d1%26nu%3d%26t%3d%26edoptin%3d%26customgeoip%3d%26cap%3d1%26cbstore%3d1%26vd%3d0%26lb%3d%26fi%3d2%26edrf%3d%26ispremium%3d1%26flip%3d0

I was stationed there July 06 to July 07 in Zone 6. Drove 18,000 miles into Iraq. 88m

[reACTIONary]

85. Wow! That is amazing !

Very impressive and thank you for your service!

[Jarqui]

52. Threats against Obama were 400% of GW Bush

according to the Secret Service

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/5967942/Barack-Obama-faces-30-death-threats-a-day-stretching-US-Secret-Service.html

Since Mr Obama took office, the rate of threats against the president has increased 400 per cent from the 3,000 a year or so under President George W. Bush, according to Ronald Kessler, author of In the President's Secret Service.

I grew up in the 50s-60s. I doubted Obama would survive eight years in office. Pretty tough on Michelle.

But Barack showed up rain or shine in military cemeteries and in iraq & Afghanistan.

Morning Joe had a stat that 24% (159 of 600+ days) of Trump's time in office, he's been at a golf resort. I guess he's really safe from the rain there.

[VOX]

16. "He's afraid people want to kill him."

Who? American GIs? What a fucking fragile flower the big man is.

IT’S YOUR GODDAMNED JOB, IDIOT.

[JDC]

17. Fuuuuuck him. Pure Cowardice.

[GusBob]

18. Doesn't want to be associated with wars he views as failures

Holy Christ motherfucker how do you think the troops feel?

Jesus Fucking Christ I am so angry

Fuck him to hell. Fuck anyone who voted for this piece of shit

[Haggis for Breakfast]

48. EVERY WAR IS A FAILURE.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed . . .."

Dwight Eisenhower

[irresistable]

19. He's even afraid of dead soldiers rising from the grave to kill him at Arlington National Cemetary?

He knows that McCain is buried there.

[Maeve]

21. Overgrown baby

Altho the fact that people are finally calling him a coward indicates they are losing their fear of him--because he's losing power.

[Marie Marie]

24. He did say that he has been extremely busy...

[3catwoman3]

47. Well, all those hours of executive time must be very draining.

And it must take at least 2 hours to comb that mess on his head into that sculpted abomination.

[bdamomma]

91. what looking at

Christmas trees and having lunch with Pence??? WTF, he needs to go, he has abused the office, country and us.

[D23MIURG23]

25. "When danger reared it's ugly head, he bravely turned his tail and fled"

[YessirAtsaFact]

30. Sir Donald surpasses even the cowardice of Sir Robin!

nm

[Zoonart]

42. LOL...THIS!

[C_U_L8R]

26. Donny's not gold, he's yellow

[Turbineguy]

27. How did this douchebag get anybody to vote for him?

[Progressive Jones]

41. His supporters are the bottom 10% of Americans, in terms of quality.

There are way more pathetic losers staining our society than you may think.

[LuckyLib]

56. So true. And if you live in "rarified atmosphere"

— don’t have family or friends or neighbors or colleagues who are Trumpsters — it’s really difficult to imagine how many idiots there are out there.

[Doodley]

28. Some people may want to kill him or maybe not. Let's put it to the test.

[Progressive Jones]

43. I like the way you think! nt

[world wide wally]

29. Captain Bonespurs... Our Commander in Chief

[33taw]

31. I am beginning to hate anonymous sources. I wish they would actually allow their names to be used.

[underpants]

33. What, guns are bad or something?

He must sit there literally thinking the whole world revolves around him.

This goes back to the fast food McD's KFC thing. I thought it was just a stupid campaign thing but apparently he really thinks someone might poison him. That speaks volumes about his mental makeup but it begs the question - Who poisons someone these days? Oh, Russians. Tell.

[Hoyt]

34. Well Obama did it, and I'll guarantee there were some military who despised him.

[CatMor]

37. If he really did say what he's afraid of ...

for once he's right.

[global1]

40. Guilty Conscience - Ya Think?.....nt

[Progressive Jones]

44. This could be the solution to many problems. nt

[Javaman]

45. coward in chief. nt

[Haggis for Breakfast]

49. Just because you're paranoid

Doesn't mean they're not out to get you.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

70. HAhahahaha

I love that one.

[AZ8theist]

50. "He's afraid of those situations. He's afraid people want to kill him."

His fears are well founded.

[YessirAtsaFact]

86. This is true at home and abroad

It’s a side effect of constantly insulting people

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

51. He's got company!

The fate of all assholes!

[dae]

54. He has some perceptive powers after all.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

58. End the Wars then. Why are we fighting them if it's so insignificant to you?

Good time to get out.

[secondwind]

59. Even dead ones??!!?

[Quixote1818]

60. Well, the soldiers are afraid of dying every day, year after year Mr. Bone Spurs. nt

[hibbing]

61. If we knew 1/1000th of the threats against President Obama

Yet he was out among the public, shaking hands, meeting ordinary people. Tiny hands sure talks like a tough guy. All hat and no cattle of course. Concerned about the long flight? Air Force One is a flying hotel.

Peace

[Honeycombe8]

62. He's a coward through and through. A scaredy cat. Yella stripe down the back.

That's why he was a draft dodger while supporting the war for others to get hurt or killed in. That's why he eats McDonald's burgers, I read. They're prepared ahead of time...not intended for him.

I bet he has a food taster. Really.

[bdjhawk]

63. Another good example of "what if Obama did this"

Can you hear Rush Limpballs and FAUX Noise if Obama didn’t go to those areas?!!! We would never hear the end of what a coward he was!!! He went there as a Senator then several times as President and I’m sure he had much to be worried about in terms of his safety.

Someone needs to come up with a good hashtag to get trending #VisitTheTroopsCoward , #BonespursNotStillAnExcuse or something of that sort and get it out there to put pressure on him.

Typical bully......all blowhard talk but a yellow coward underneath.

[area51]

64. "He's afraid people want to kill him."

Delusions from his dementia? 25th amendment his ass.

[keithbvadu2]

65. A great and very brave soldier

[Gothmog]

66. Trump is a coward

[Retrograde]

68. Lincoln visited troops in an active war zone

FDR made a couple of overseas trips during a world war to meet with allies. Eisenhower went to Korea. Bush 2 and Obama visited troops in the Middle East.

Trump thinks active military are just props for his ego

[ChazInAz]

69. I wonder.

Do you think he's smart enough to remember anything from his history classes?
Like what happened to Caligula?

[Hekate]

72. Coward

[Control-Z]

73. He should be more frightened

here in the states. I'm sure there are at least a few people on the left who are as crazy as those on the right.

Poor guy. Must be scared shitless most of the time.

[tavernier]

75. Nah. He just has no interest in going there.

Golf. Rah Rah speech to the skin heads and half wits.

Otherwise it’s too cold , too rainy, too busy.

[backscatter712]

76. A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once.

The Bard nails it...

[Hassler]

77. Once and always, Cadet Bonespurs

[Achilleaze]

79. The republican misleader* has no courage, no honor

* aka republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

[BlueStater]

80. You brought that on yourself, dickhead.

I don't know why, but you wanted this job and now you've got it. If you're incapable of fulfilling the duties you were elected to, feel free to resign at any time.

[treestar]

81. What a jerk. And now I am more impressed

with President Obama for going. Or at least, the Orange Idiot should be. His viewing the war as a "failure" is no excuse at all.

[lindysalsagal]

82. Actually glad they don't have to pretend to like the asshat

I usually cringe when troops are used as stage backdrop for nasty politicians.

[lindysalsagal]

83. For once, the asshat is right. Proves he's not completely detached from reality...

It's selective detachment....

[Fullduplexxx]

84. "He's never been interested in going,"..... there that's the reason

[Vinca]

87. He's more likely to be killed accidently by a deranged gunman in the United States.

[pwb]

88. He has been afraid his whole life.

[Gothmog]

89. From David Corn

Link to tweet

[bdamomma]

90. I bet he's afraid

coward.

[BadGimp]

94. Nope, what he is really afraid of is ....

... having to stand next to and be in the company of real men and women of valor who have and do show real courage. They are the true leaders and defenders of Democracy and he is, of course, the opposite.

Doing so causes him to reflect on how much of a total human fraud he really is and that pain from self-reflection is too much for the tender Toddler In Chief to bare.

Just my opinion, however.