How Much Is Too Much To Pay For 'Mexican' (American) Soldier's Funeral? Ask Donald Trump.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : But right after the soldier's body was found, Trump, always eager to be in the spotlight, invited the Guillén family to the White House, and even managed not to give a leering thumbs-up to the cameras that day.
53% : In just one of many examples, Trump assured them, "If I can help you out with the funeral, I'll help -- I'll help you with that.
51% : This correction did not move Trump to reconsider his view: "No, no, no, they were totally loyal to him," the president responded.
44% : Kelly confirmed the story with Goldberg this week, and offered further details:He told me that when Trump raised the subject of "German generals," Kelly responded by asking, "'Do you mean Bismarck's generals?'"
41% : According to a person close to Trump at the time, the president was agitated by McCarthy's comments and raised questions about the severity of the punishments dispensed to senior officers and noncommissioned officers.
39% : He added, later in the interview, that Trump, unlike any other president, just never seemed to understand very basic facts about America and the Constitution, no matter how often the laws were explained to him.
35% : Too Much Fascist Shit To Keep Track OfThere's much more, which is why you have that gift link; Goldberg heard from two people who heard Trump say "I need the kind of generals that Hitler had.
31% : But Trump says lots of things he never follows through on, as we all know.
30% : We're sure Trump will call for The Atlantic to lose its publishing license, even though there's no such thing.
29% : Kelly agrees that Trump qualifies to be pictured in dictionaries next to the definition of fascist:"Well, looking at the definition of fascism: It's a far-right authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy," he said.
25% : Trump, at various points, had grown frustrated with military officials he deemed disloyal and disobedient.
24% : Also, over at the New York Times (another gift link, literally from Morgan Fairchild, and I am not a pathological liar), Trump's former Chief of Staff Gen. John Kelly went on the record to say, on tape, that Trump is a dangerous authoritarian who should never have power again because he would wield it like a dictator, and not just on day one.
24% : They reported that Trump asked his then-Chief of Staff John Kelly,"Why can't you be like the German generals?"
23% : Goldberg reports that, five months later, when Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy announced that an investigation found serious "leadership failures" at Fort Hood, leading him to suspend or relieve a bunch of officers there, Trump was not a happy little dictator:
22% : Trump also mused during the racial justice protests in 2020 that "The Chinese generals would know what to do," clearly wishing he could crush all the protesters with tanks, especially since he never got to have any tanks in parades.
21% : Kelly also said Trump "never accepted the fact that he wasn't the most powerful man in the world -- and by power, I mean an ability to do anything he wanted, anytime he wanted," and seemed to want to really govern like he ran his business, without having to "bother too much about whether what the legalities were and whatnot," a rare four-star use of "whatnot."Kelly explained he'd come forward to speak on the record because he was concerned about Trump's most recent fantasies about using the military against his personal political enemies, basically saying that he'd spent much of his time as chief of staff explaining to Trump that just isn't allowed in America, although we suppose we may have the chance to find that out if we don't elect Kamala Harris and make sure her election sticks,
19% : According to Baker and Glasser, Kelly explained to Trump that German generals "tried to kill Hitler three times and almost pulled it off."
17% : And then, after Trump lost the election, in a December 4, 2020, Oval Office meeting, Trump demanded to know whether the Guillén family had billed the government for their daughter's funeral.
16% : Racism On ParadeThe really knock-you-over-with-a-lead-encased feather part of Goldberg's Atlantic piece involves how Trump was a disgusting racist (and cheapskate, which infuses everything he does, even his vicious racism) regarding the funeral of Army Pvt.
16% : Trump became angry.
11% : "Not surprisingly, Trump spokesperson Alex Pfeiffer denied to Goldberg that anything of the sort had happened, and also denied every other unflattering insider account of ugly comments by Trump that Goldberg reports in the piece.
10% : Kelly told me Trump was not acquainted with Rommel.
4% : (We also learn Trump refuses to believe that several of Hitler's generals tried to assassinate him, because Trump is very stupid and nothing gets through his thick skull.)
4% : Goldberg reviews Trump's many, many similar insults toward the military, from his public dismissal of John McCain for getting captured to Trump's creepy campaign ad antics at Arlington, and notes more Hitler love, as reported by New York Times reporters Peter Baker and Susan Glasser in their book The Divider: Trump in the White House (Wonkette commission link).

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