In January of this year, a favorite Trump newspaper, USA Today, ran an op-ed titled “Mr. President, do your duty. Go see our troops.” President Trump didn’t. Mostly because Donald Trump is a coward of a man. He’s a bully, and like most bullies, he’s afraid of the world around him. He doesn’t trust the world around him. He loathes the world around him for making him feel insecure. In an interview with the Associated Press released Thursday, Trump, who has found time to play golf 149 times in the first 20 months of his presidency, was asked why he hasn't visited the troops in Iraq or Afghanistan. He had this to say:
Trump: Well, I will do that at some point, but I don’t think it’s overly necessary. I’ve been very busy with everything that’s taking place here. We have the greatest economy in the history of our country. I mean, this is the greatest economy we’ve ever had, best unemployment numbers. Many groups are, you know, we’ve never even been close to these numbers. I’m doing a lot of things. I’m doing a lot of things. But it’s something I’d do. And do gladly. Nobody has been better at the military. Hey, I just got them a pay raise. I haven’t had a pay raise in 11 years. I just got them a substantial pay raise. ‘They’ meaning our military people. I just got them new equipment. They have stuff that was so old that the grandfathers used to fly it. I have done more for the military than any president in many, many years.
On the other hand, President Obama, while averting a deregulated national economic disaster, trying to push through the largest healthcare platform in American history, and inheriting a series of ill-advised wars, was able to visit troops in war zones no less than seven times. He visited Iraq in April 2009.
Trump has never been a serious person, and the fact that he is our current president is not simply an affront to “libtards” like myself. It is a slap in the face to our armed forces. While Trump wastes taxpayer money on spending a third of his time playing on his golf courses, (including no less than $300,000 on golf cart rentals alone), and giving his golf buddies tours of Air Force One (for the price of membership), our armed forces personnel risk their lives and the happiness of their families doing the work that our executive and legislative branches tell them to do.