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MIAMI-DADE, Fla. - U.S. President Donald Trump told U.S. Army Sgt. La David Johnson's widow Tuesday that "he knew what he signed up for ...but when it happens it hurts anyway," when he died serving in northwestern Africa, according to Rep. Frederica Wilson, D-Miami Gardens.

"Yes, he said it," Wilson said. "It's so insensitive. He should have not have said that. He shouldn't have said it."

The president called about 4:45 p.m. and spoke to Johnson's pregnant widow, Myeshia Johnson, for about five minutes. She is a mother to Johnson's surviving 2-year-old son and 6-year-old daughter. The conversation happened before Johnson's remains arrived in a commercial Delta Airlines flight at Miami International Airport.

Wilson witnessed as the widow, who is expecting their third baby in January, leaned over the U.S. flag that was draping his casket. Her pregnant belly was shaking against the casket as she sobbed uncontrollably. Their daughter stood next to her stoically. Their toddler waited in the arms of a relative.

https://www.local10.com/news/politics/trump-speaks-to-widow-of-sgt-la-david-johnson

So presidential this topic if old

 

[kitsunelaine]

Trump lacks basic human empathy, news at 11

 

[Extollere]

Donald Trump should just save everyone suffering additional grief by not making any calls at all.

 

[SolarPowered]

Jesus

Bad idea letting sociopaths console grieving widows.

 

[Syf]

Lock him in his bedroom with a plastic toy phone he can pretend with

 

[shira]

Did he say "Have a good time" afterwards?

 

[Emerson]

If my loved one just died the last thing in the universe I'd want is a phone call from that sack of shit.

 

[Dubbedinenglish]

Is there no bottom?




Edit: That’s the black soldier who died...🤔🤔🤔🤔

 

[JettDash]

I literally would have told him to go fuck himself.

 

[Cesare Borgia]

There's a transcript too, can't fake news your way out of this.

 

[Ferrio]

Is that the full quote and the "..." was him trailing off or something?

 

[Flying Toaster]

A lot of people are aware the man is a monster. I want more military people to talk about this though.

 

[Snaku]

I mean, the man is essentially Patrick Bateman. Only without the ability to fake empathy.

 

[rtcn63]

This is some Sargeant Cuff shit

 

[sunshine and gasoline]

Rot. In. Hell. Asshole.

 

[MagnaderAlpha]

Wonder what Trump's gonna say to the other families:

"Hey, that's life! What'cha gonna do? Nothing."

"Well, we're all gonna die sooner or later... and for him, it was sooner."

"If he really loved you guys, he would've tried harder to survive. You're better off without him."

 

[Random Human]

It’s almost like you shouldn’t elect a sociopath to be president.

 

[BackLogJoe]

That is what vets tell other vets.

This is absolutely not what you tell the guy's widow.

 

[Yoshimitsu126]

Fuck Trump. Good job Confederate Nazi scums. You knew who you voted for.

Edit: Although my thoughts about Trump voters still
stand, that hot take doesn’t really make sense in context of this news.

 

[Dead Prince]

did he give her free tickets to his next rally? fucking shit stain

 

[zero_suit]

Wonder what Trump's gonna say to the other families:

"Hey, that's life!"

"Well, we're all gonna die sooner or later... and for him, it was sooner"

"If he really loved you guys, he would've tried harder to survive. You're better off without him."

"He had a great death. The best."

 

[BigDes]

Surprised he didn't talk to her about his crowd sizes

 

[BobLoblaw]

Trump lacks basic human empathy humanity, news at 11

Fixed.

 

[Ovid]

Should have hung up the damn phone on him.

 

[Ithil]

Let's not have him call the families of dead soldiers I think

 

[FyreWulff]

"I wonder if he was a black soldier"

*click*

"yep"

 

[PandaPandaPanda]

Surprised he didn't talk to her about his crowd sizes

im surprised he didnt lie saying that he served and didnt get captured/died but came back as a decorated war hero

 

[Gutek]

I hope he dies soon.

 

[woolley]

It's sickening how awful a draft dodger acts towards members of the military he is supposed to be leading. And on top of that he somehow has strong support amongst members of the military. I will never understand this world.

 

[ultracal31]

Surprised he didn't talk to her about his crowd sizes

I'm sure Trump will work that in the donation email he sends out to the widow

 

[Zophar]

A new day, a new low. Every fucking day.

 

[kyser73]

Would probably be better if he did what he falsely claimed Obama & Bush did, and not reached out to the families.

 

[Omega Kirby]

When you think it's just satire but it's actually real

 

[wandering]

Makes even George W Bush look good....

 

[Rival]

He gives the best condolences. Really really tremendous condolences. Nobobody has given better condolences believe me.

 

[RDreamer]

That is what vets tell other vets.

This is absolutely not what you tell the guy's widow.

Yeah, it’s absolutely not what a draft dodger should tell the widow.

 

[Peltz]

"He's not a war hero. I like soldiers who don't die."
-trump

 

[jellies_two]

Blue lives don't matter because they signed up for it?

 

[kirblar]

It's sickening how awful a draft dodger acts towards members of the military he is supposed to be leading. And on top of that he somehow has strong support amongst members of the military. I will never understand this world.

This got linked in PoliGAF today and I think it's dead on:

I've gotten old enough to realize the Exiled guys are super questionable, but I'll never forget this bit from Mark Ames about the right smearing Kerry's war record in 2004:

That's why the Republicans focused on Kerry's war hero record. Everyone was shocked by this strategy: ”Why would the Republicans go after Kerry's war record when Bush and Cheney were deserters?" The answer was obvious if you understood how spite works. Kerry's war heroism secretly pissed off untold millions of American males, especially middle-aged white American males, who identified with the cowardice and loud-mouthed hypocrisy of the Republican war deserters, because most white middle-class American males were war deserters too. It's like the homophobe closet-case phenomenon: most boomers who deserted the Vietnam War resent that stain on their past, so naturally they're for the rankest, basest draft-dodging hypocrites like Rush Limbaugh or Newt Gingrich, who dignify draft-dodging as machismo, and turn that private stain into a purple heart.

Compare the shame of the average white male American's Vietnam record to Kerry's war record: He saw real combat and faced real danger and killed real living people, rather than just yapping about killing in the comments section of Pajamas Media like most white males, or shouting about it on FoxNews with all the draft-dodging warmongers there...Then there's Kerry's far braver turn to anti-war activism after he returned home, a defiance that none of these spiteful voters ever had the courage to show in public, for fear of getting yelled at by their bosses. And most offensive of all, Kerry's cinematic Swift Boat that he rode up the Mekong, clutching his M-16 like some fucking action hero movie star. He lived the life every dead-ender American wishes he had lived, daydreaming about courage in his wretched cubicle.

 

[CampbellzSoup]

Only 3/7 more years of my life with this man...

I can guarantee he brought up Hilary Clinton somehow

 

[Greigor The Fellhand]

Jesus fucking christ.

I cant even

 

[Nekofrog]

This needs to be on the front page of all military times newspapers, all branches

 

[lenovox1]

He has completely lost the plot. Pence is probably measuring for curtains behind Trump's back in the Oval Office at this point.

 

[megalowho]

Yeah, you know what, don't call anymore.

 

[GK86]

"What a dummy. He should have faked a foot injury like I did, which is FAKE NEWS by the way. I would have totally served and in fact, if I did, the U.S. would have won the Vietnam war. Totally would have changed the outcome of that war."

 

[mugurumakensei]

Makes even George W Bush look good....

The crazy thing is like Bush is about a billion times more eloquent.

 

[norm9]

The wheels have fallen off and mofos pushing the car while refusing to acknowledge it's broken.

 

[CitizenCope]

Only 3/7 more years of my life with this man...

I never thought of it that way. Things are looking up, after we fall so far.

 

[foxuzamaki]

Oh my god

 

[Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku!]

On the other hand I'm not exactly sure if Trump knew what he signed up for