Trump About Building Vietnam Memorial While Defending His Track Record Of Making Sacrifices

[billyerock1991]

Trump Lied About Building Vietnam Memorial While Defending His Track Record Of Making Sacrifices

Recently, Trump said in an interview with ABC News’ George Steponopolous that he played a significant role in helping to build Manhattan’s Vietnam Veterans Plaza. Trump’s claim was made in response to a question Stephanopolous asked concerning the personal sacrifices the billionaire has made in his lifetime.
Trump also said that he employed thousands of people, taking credit for putting their kids through college, among other things.


However, according to a 1984 Washington Post article, while Trump was on the board dedicated to getting the memorial built, the billionaire blew off most of the board’s meetings. One official of the Vietnam commission, who was in attendance for all of the meetings, said that Trump only attended two or three out of 20 meetings. His claim was substantiated by another member of the commission.

But it gets worse.

According to the Post, Trump was attendance for the launch of the commission, and the second time the billionaire graced them with his presence, Trump brought along a journalist who was doing a profile on him.

The Post’s story sounds like classic Trump; he takes credit for the hard work of others, while he only shows up for photo ops. And the fact that he would use a blatant lie as an example of his many personal “sacrifices” reveals the caliber of man he truly is.

Oh, and let’s not forget what Trump when he compared his sex life to the Vietnam war.

“You know, I’ll tell you, it’s amazing, I can’t even believe it. I’ve been so lucky in terms of that whole world,” Trump said, when Stern asked if it was awkward to have his potential dates screened. “It is a dangerous world out there—it’s scary, like Vietnam. Sort of like the Vietnam era.”

“It is your personal Vietnam, isn’t it?” Stern said. “It is, you’ve said it many times.”

It’s really quite sad when you think about it. It’s possible that Donald Trump doesn’t even understand the concept of sacrifice.

Someone should cue some sad music for Trump while he opines about all the great “sacrifices” he has made on behalf of the American people.

 

[DGS49]

Someone in Trump's position could not reasonably be expected to attend TWENTY time-consuming meetings, and his input was undoubtedly outside those meetings.

The practice of taking Trump's off-hand, often joking comments and reading them as though they contained his Philosophy of Life is a sophomoric, bullshit practice, and no one of any serious temperament would engage in it. Which is why Leftists revel in it. They swim in bullshit perpetually.

And lest we not forget, virtually the entire American "middle class" dodged the Vietnam draft. Outside of the South (where military service is often considered honorable), anyone whose parents could afford to put a kid in college did so, regardless of whether the kid was "college material," or had any interest in studying. The "2S" deferment was ubiquitous in households headed by a college grad.

In case you hadn't noticed, among people of the appropriate age, at the upper echelons of government, business, the arts, and academe, the percentage of Vietnam Vets is in the mid-single digits. (For you Leftists, that means 3-8%).

So I (a Vietnam vet) don't really care to read any bullshit about Trump dodging the draft, as though that makes him some sort of villain or coward. Next to William Jefferson Clinton, Trump's "draft record" is exemplary.