President Donald Trump wants us all to know that he’s in firm command of our armed forces and knows more about military strategy and foreign policy than any of our generals.
Still stinging from criticism over his decision to withdraw all American forces from Syria — in essence abandoning the region to Russia and Iran — Trump fired off some incredibly defensive tweets Monday morning:
If anybody but Donald Trump did what I did in Syria, which was an ISIS loaded mess when I became President, they would be a national hero. ISIS is mostly gone, we’re slowly sending our troops back home to be with their families, while at the same time fighting ISIS remnants……
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 31, 2018
…I campaigned on getting out of Syria and other places. Now when I start getting out the Fake News Media, or some failed Generals who were unable to do the job before I arrived, like to complain about me & my tactics, which are working. Just doing what I said I was going to do!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 31, 2018
…..Except the results are FAR BETTER than I ever said they were going to be! I campaigned against the NEVER ENDING WARS, remember!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 31, 2018
The very fact that a draft dodger like Trump has the audacity to proclaim himself smarter than the generals and other military advisers who have decades of experience in such matters is laughable on its face. But for him to also assert that ISIS has been destroyed (it hasn’t) is the very definition of hyperbole. It’s estimated that 25-30,000 ISIS fighters remain in Syria and are preparing to regroup and perhaps strike directly at the United States here on our soil.
Social media wasn’t shy when it came to countering the president’s bragging that he alone knows what’s best for the country:
I love when Donald #Trump tweets about Donald Trump as if Donald Trump is some other person and not the real Donald Trump who’s actually Donald Trump tweeting as Donald Trump under the Donald Trump account…
— Andy Ostroy (@AndyOstroy) December 31, 2018
What specifically did you do? Defund the rebels and respond to a chemical attack on those same rebels months later, then hand the entire situation over to Russia and Turkey leaving zero stabilizing Western presence in the region.
In short, left allies to die on the field. Nice.
— ilea a mathis (@BaconSoyLatte) December 31, 2018
5 x’s draft dodger calls military heroes, “Failed Generals”
— Royal Priest (@MLCHZDK) December 31, 2018
Failed Generals…. are you kidding me. How are those bone spurs Don. You will NEVER get the kind of respect a General gets. That’s why you tweeted that remark. Truth hurts doesn’t it.
— Ed Hajduk (@EdHajdukjr) December 31, 2018
You ended the war by surrendering to ISIS in Syria. You promised your supporters to stand up to ISIS then you run away from them like the coward you are.
— Louise Mensch (@LouiseMensch) December 31, 2018
ISIS is as strong, now, as they were in 2015. You did not eradicate them. Turkey, on the other and thanks to you, will eradicate the Kurds. Saudi Arabia gets away with murder thanks to you and Kushner. You’re pure evil.
— Dr. Ginny (@GinnyMac55) December 31, 2018
Isn’t it reassuring to know that as we enter 2019, we have a possibly compromised commander-in-chief who may well be in the pocket of dictators around the world?
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