By now you’ve read about the reaction to Trump’s posting the “Chipocalapse Now” image of himself as Col. Kilgore with an under attack Chicago burning in the background (see HUFFPOST article). Here’s how Sen. Tammy Duckworth, who achieved the rank of lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army, reacted:
Aside from uttering one of the two most memorable lines in “Apocolapse Now,” “I love the smell of napalm in the morning” (the other being Col. Kutz’s “the horror, the horror”) it is instructive to consider the character of the character.
The following (from the FanDom website) should suffice as a “nuff said” when trying to explain why Trump admires him so much he liked his own face being superimposed over Kilgore’s in the now infamous Truth Social post. Bold emphasis mine:
Lieutenant Colonel William "Bill" Kilgore is the secondary antagonist of the 1979 film Apocalypse Now. He is an amoral warmonger who actually enjoys the war and calls it home.
He is introduced in the movie when Willard and his allies ask him for help in getting up to the Nùng. Kilgore scoffs but befriends Lance after discovering his surfing experience and agrees to escort them through the Nùng's Viet Cong–held coastal mouth. They successfully raid at dawn, with Kilgore ordering a napalm sortie on the local cadres. He and his men then proceed to mercilessly kill, shoot and blow up numerous innocent civilians, showing a complete and utter disregard for civilian and human life, and showing Kilgore as what he is, a bloodthirsty, sadistic and amoral warmonger. This arguably makes him eviler than the film's main antagonist, Colonel Walter E. Kurtz, as he is willing to involve innocent civilians in his reign of mass murder and destruction, and shows no guilt for his deeds.
This is in stark contrast to Col. Kutz who when, as he was dying, uttered “the horror, the horror.” He was reflecting on the darkness and brutality of the war and humanity in general.
We also have stories about waging war on Venezuela and articles like “Trump’s Venezuela gunboat diplomacy: sabre-rattling or prelude to invasion?”
It is only a bit of my being lazy that I won’t expand on what makes Trump admire the Kilgore character. Hopefully it is obvious that Trump is one very sick excuse for a human being.
I have to wonder whether the opinions of the majority even matter. Consider the most recent poll:
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