This may not provoke the VFW to weigh in again on Trump demeaning those who won the Medal of Honor for heroism, but it still shows a lack of awareness in those who select the "lucky" people to get to stand behind Trump at a rally.
This particular t-shirt is available from several retailers:
Trump's "people" may have thought it was amusing to use AI to generate images of people wearing "Swifties for Trump" t-shirts and risk pissing off real Swifties, the vast majority of whom will be voting for Kamala Harris. (Read article)
Note that this post which Trump reposted is clearly marked satire. Even so, Trump may have believed it.
Insulting Swifties is one thing, but insulting veterans, whether they or their loved ones have PTSD or not, is quite another thing.
Trump is now trying to explain away what he meant by his Medal of Freedom remarks in a manner which, using too kind a word, might be called lame.
He's claiming he wasn't saying the Medal of Freedom was better than the Medal of Honor but rather was only decribing the differences between the two awards.
What are you to believe? What he said...
When we gave her the Presidential Medal of Freedom… It’s the equivalent of the Congressional Medal of Honor— it’s actually much better because everyone who gets the Congressional Medal, they’re soldiers. They’re either in very bad shape because they’ve been hit so many times by bullets or they’re dead. She gets it and she’s a healthy beautiful woman.
... or what he want you to think he meant by what he said? See:
During the interview, Trump was asked about his comments that he would "rather get" the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's top civilian honor, than the Medal of Honor, the highest military decoration awarding acts of valor.
Given a chance to clean up his past remarks, Trump declined and once again reiterated that he'd rather get the Medal of Freedom because he wouldn't want to suffer war wounds like those regularly suffered by Medal of Honor recipients.
"People who get the Congressional Medal of Honor, which I've given to many, are often horribly wounded or dead," Trump said. "They're often dead."
While PTSD can be caused by other things besides experiences in combat or related to war the public tends to associate it with a severe often debilitating disorder associated with having been a soldier.
I doubt Trump pays much attention to who is allowed to stand behind him at rallies. I assume he wants to have dark skinned people, some wearing Blacks for Trump or Latinos for Trump t-shirts, stand behind him.
Especially coming after he ignited negative controversy over his Medal of Freedom comment one would think somebody assigned to the by no means minor job of picking people to be in the TV image behind him should be savvy enough to have kept this man out of the TV picture.
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