The Sherman gained grim nicknames like "Zippo" (after the cigarette lighter), "Ronson" (because "it lights the first time, every time") and "Tommycooker" (by the Germans, who referred to British soldiers as "Tommies"; a tommy cooker was a World War I-era trench stove).
Neither the Sherman or the Abrams tank is new. Paraguay finally stopped using the Sherman M4 in 2018. But perhaps POTUS* will surprise us with the name for the new 84-ton Ground Combat Vehicle, as yet unnamed. While we have become accustomed to Trump’s exaggeration, it’s nothing we should expect from an actual President, because even the most dogged of his cult followers should see this as a sign of a cognitive defect.
"We have to put them in certain areas but we have the brand new Sherman tanks and we have the brand new Abram tanks," Trump said, according to a pool report." You know we're making a lot of new tanks right now. We're building a lot of new tanks in Lima, Ohio – our great tank factory that people wanted to close down until I got elected and I stopped it from being closed down, and now it's a very productive facility and they do, nobody's the greatest tank in the world."
Defense officials were unclear what the president meant by "brand new Sherman tanks." A White House spokesman declined to elaborate on Trump's remarks.
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Any tanks will be static display props on the mall, because like the fly-over that includes Air Force One, it’s all about getting a Leni Reifenstal photo-op. If Trump were truly smart about reelection he’d stage a Stinger launch.
What you all are missing is that our July 4th celebration in DC really will have brand new Sherman tanks. Trump has a well-known fondness for things from the good old days, and on his first day in office he secretly ordered the Army to resurrect the Sherman. It was supposed to be a surprise, but you know Trump. He just can’t keep a secret.
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