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Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Maritime Park’s Hunter Amphitheater in 2016 in Pensacola, Florida. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images)
As US Election Day approaches, the voting lines are drawn between the blue and red states, and apparently military and law enforcement families and communities.
“To protect and (to) serve” – widely known as the motto of law enforcement in the United States, was the motto of the Los Angeles Police Department, selected through a contest to find a motto. The winning work was submitted by Officer Joseph S Dorobek. This is also the message that US President Donald Trump is sending to law enforcement: that he will protect and serve them. He made that clear last week when he visited Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Sept. 1, 2020, the city where a police officer two steps behind the victim shot African-American Jacob Blake, 29, in the back. Kenosha saw continued protests following the Blake shooting, as well as the killing of two protesters by a 17-year-old white teenager with a semiautomatic rifle on the third night of protests in Kenosha.
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The American president told the nation that the teenager was under attack; Video footage clearly shows that the teenager had shot and killed his first victim, and protesters were trying to disarm him. But Trump stuck to his story. When he visited Kenosha, he toured the damaged buildings and spoke (and gave money) to small business owners whose businesses had been damaged or ruined by the protests. He thanked the police for their efforts and pledged more than $ 40 million in funding to help law enforcement in Wisconsin.
The night before visiting Kenosha, Trump was asked about the cop who shot Blake, who is now paralyzed, seven times in the back, and he replied that the policemen, well, “They drown!” and compared it to a golfer trying to make a three foot putt and chokes. Trump spent the week thanking the police for their service, loudly and at every opportunity: “great people … really good people.” He has also been singing the praises of the National Guard troops, whom he said “has been really amazing.”
In the midst of what is a play devoted to the theme of the president’s “law and order” campaign, Trump also leans on a defined constituency and makes sure the larger law enforcement community knows where to cast their vote on 3 May. November 2020. He was working until the end of last week when antimilitary comments made in 2018, when the president canceled a visit to the Aisne-Marne American cemetery in Paris, came back to bite him into the proverbial you-know-what.
“Why should I go to that cemetery?” Trump is reported to have said. “It’s full of losers.” He also referred to the soldiers who died in the war as “losers” for dying. He is also arguably one of America’s most famous draft evaders, eschewing selective service, which was a system whereby the U.S. kept a list of all men and when they turned 18, officials selected and selected from the list (state by state), with each state having its own selective service board). Once a young man received the draft of the letter, he had to undergo a military physical examination and undergo some aptitude tests. If he failed the physical or fitness tests, he would be disqualified from serving. An American veteran told this reporter that some civilian doctors “were very cooperative in finding a reason why you couldn’t be a soldier.”
Trump had one of these “very cooperative doctors” who diagnosed him as having bone spurs and therefore could not serve. It was not uncommon for wealthy youth to avoid entering the military. Trump may be feeling some awkwardness right now, if only in relation to the upcoming elections, as the people of the land of the free respecting the capitalists, and their president is possibly an archetype in that regard, too. they are the people of the land of the mighty. , so dodging the draft is very much the antithesis of brave.
Joe Biden, who never served but his son, the late Beau Biden, was a member of the National Guard and served a tour in Iraq, receiving a Bronze Star, entered this frenetic storm of anti-military contempt and dodging military service. He died of a brain tumor in 2015. There are also records of Joe Biden, Biden’s father, who signed up for a recruiting for World War II, but was not called.
Biden has criticized Trump for his “loser and fool” comments regarding soldiers and members of the military, and Trump may well have scored an own goal, lighting a fire under the military for all the wrong reasons. Consider that the active military is just under 1.5 million Americans, with nearly 900,000 reservists, not to mention 18.2 million military veterans, and the military’s civilian workforce of about 100,000.
Trump may have met the enemy and it seems his name is Donald. DM
