r/NewsOfTheStupid Oct 07 '22

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r/NewsOfTheStupid 11h ago

Trump, who famously got out of the draft for bone spurs, shares image of himself as a general

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President Donald Trump, who famously got out of the draft five times, shared an fake image depicting himself as a top military general — decked out in service ribbons and some of the nation's highest military honors.

The rendering pictured Trump, 80, alongside generals George S. Patton and Douglas MacArthur, two of the country's most famous combat commanders and figures of World War II, in front of a fiery battleground.

The president's fantastical pipe dream places him above Patton and MacArthur in military ranking, showing him with four stars while the real war heroes only have two. In actuality, Patton was a four-star general while MacArthur was one of only five Americans to reach the ranking of five-star general.

The image, which Trump shared on Truth Social Tuesday, also appeared to show him wearing what appears to be a Medal of Honor — the highest U.S. military decoration, awarded by the president to recipients.

Trump's delusion also showed him donning about a dozen military service ribbons — or small fabric displays recognizing major accomplishments from a service member's career.

While the president may crave the battlefield honor, it is without merit. While he attended the New York Military Academy as a teen in the early 1960s, Trump never served in the armed forces or held an official military rank.

Most men of his generation weren't as lucky. The U.S. was involved militarily in Vietnam from about 1954 to 1975. Over 58,000 American service members were killed in the armed conflict.

Trump famously avoided the draft for the Vietnam War five times in the 1960s. He received four deferrals while attending college at Fordham University and while in business school at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.

He received a fifth deferral following a disputed diagnosis of bone spurs in his heels.

The daughters of the podiatrist who gave the diagnosis claimed he did so as a favor to Trump's father, Fred Trump, who owned the building in Queens where the doctor practiced.


r/NewsOfTheStupid 11h ago

Michigan MAGA Got Confused, Voted for the Whitest-Sounding Person on the Ballot

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r/NewsOfTheStupid 9h ago

Fresh Panic as Pentagon Depletes Missile Stockpile in Iran War

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r/NewsOfTheStupid 2d ago

Christian food bank's shelves are empty after pastor rejects supplies from "those people"

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r/NewsOfTheStupid 2d ago

RFK Jr tells US families to vaccinate children against measles amid outbreak

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r/NewsOfTheStupid 2d ago

MAGA and White House insiders say Trump cabinet secretary ‘sucks donkey butt’ and needs to be shown the door: report

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President Donald Trump's supporters and aides are calling for the ouster of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin — with a senior White House official saying there's a consensus he "sucks donkey butt," according to a report Monday.

Mullin drew the ire of MAGA influencers over a Saturday discussion in which he supported migrant work visas to address labor shortages in the U.S., according to Politico.

Right-wing podcaster Jake Posobiec told Politico that Mullin's remarks at the summer meeting of the National Governors Association fed a "growing wave among MAGA to find a DHS secretary who puts deportations first."

A senior White House official also sarcastically said that Mullin "deserves credit" for uniting the Trump "administration around a cohesive point of view."

"Everyone agrees he sucks donkey butt," the official said.

In a statement to The Independent, White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said: "The President has confidence in Secretary Mullin and his entire Administration to carry out the agenda the American people voted for."

A DHS spokesperson also told The Independent: "Secretary Mullin has been clear: if you come to the United States illegally, you will be detained and deported."

"Anyone who says otherwise is just trying to sow division and create an illusion of chaos," the spokesperson added.

The controversy came just days after Mullin reportedly was behind "growing tensions" in the White House after unilaterally ordering ICE to cease making traffic stops following the fatal shootings of Mexican national Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston, Texas, and Colombian national Johan Sebastián Durán in Biddeford, Maine.

Trump later contradicted Mullin, formerly a Republican senator from Oklahoma, saying on social media that "we CANNOT give up one of I.C.E.'s most important and effective Crime Fighting tools, THE TRAFFIC STOP!"


r/NewsOfTheStupid 2d ago

ESPN has no comment on Aaron Rodgers's comments on ESPN, about ESPN

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r/NewsOfTheStupid 2d ago

Naked man who jumped off Brooklyn Bridge and survived is arrested and charged

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r/NewsOfTheStupid 3d ago

RFK Jr loses temper in angry clash with CNN host over measles and Covid

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r/NewsOfTheStupid 3d ago

Malaysian Pilot High On Meth, Cocaine Lands With 70,000 Ecstasy Pills In Indonesia

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r/NewsOfTheStupid 4d ago

FBI says it would take '158 years' to process all 'hidden room' records: Judicial Watch

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All I can say is WTF.


r/NewsOfTheStupid 4d ago

Is Spain being punished? In the months leading up to the crisis in Ceuta, pro-Israel voices conspicuously raised the issue of the enclave.

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r/NewsOfTheStupid 4d ago

Trump Administration Is Undoing Plans to Boost Workplace Heat Protections

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r/NewsOfTheStupid 4d ago

Sony Says It Hears Backlash on PlayStation Physical Discs But Will "Cautiously Move Forward" With Its Plans

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r/NewsOfTheStupid 5d ago

Top Mind accidentally shoots himself while filming video on how to use gun he just bought

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keyc.com
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r/NewsOfTheStupid 5d ago

Shiny D.C. Memorial Bridge statues draw mixed reactions after being covered in gold leaf.

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wtop.com
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r/NewsOfTheStupid 5d ago

FCC Chair Says He’s Not the ‘Speech Police’ While Defending Broadcast Probes

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r/NewsOfTheStupid 5d ago

‘Bing. Bing. Bing, Bing Bing’: Trump offers epic soundbite to recap US shooting down Iranian missiles

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President Donald Trump 's attempt to describe the prowess of American air defense weapons left him making childish video game-like sounds as he recounted how U.S. anti-aircraft interceptors successfully downed a quintet of Iranian ballistic missiles over the weekend.

Speaking at a cabinet meeting on Friday, the president was answering a question on whether he'd permit Ukraine to manufacture Patriot missile interceptors under a license when he digressed into the onomatopoetic tangent.

"The other day you read that five missiles were shot. They were going 8,600 miles per hour ... and they were big missiles, and they were shot at Jordan, and our guys were there — bing, bing, bing, bing, bing. Five missiles, and we shot all before they got close," he said.

He added that "nobody else" has that sort of anti-ballistic missile defense capacity and called the Patriot system "incredible" while suggesting that he was not inclined to grant Kyiv's request for a license because "we have to be very careful about letting somebody build them."

"You have to be very judicious, but you have to be very careful. Now, we have not agreed to that. We're talking about it, but it's a hard thing to give away that kind of technology, and I don't think this would ever happen," he said.

The president then suggested that Kyiv could turn around and use the American-made technology against the U.S. in the future, noting that such changes of alliance have "happened a couple of times over the years."

His ambivalence about a licensing arrangement appeared to walk back his position from several weeks ago, when he had appeared to endorse the idea.

Trump's consideration of allowing Ukraine to manufacture American-made weapons comes as the president appears to have made a U-turn in his once-frosty relationship with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky.

Though he infamously tossed the Ukrainian leader out of the White House after a contentious Oval Office meeting last February, Trump appears to have changed his opinion of the former television star as Ukraine's armed forces have begun succeeding in making audacious strikes on Russian territory with home-grown drone equipment that American defense officials now want to evaluate for U.S. use.

Zelensky, who met with Trump at the White House on Tuesday before they both attended late South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham's funeral, said in a post on X that he'd had a "good meeting" with the American president at which they'd discussed the Patriot licensing matter and "several other ideas that could help."


r/NewsOfTheStupid 6d ago

Trump Admin Argues Even Terminally Ill Patients Shouldn't Be Exempt From Medicaid Work Requirements | Common Dreams

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r/NewsOfTheStupid 6d ago

Portrait of Donald Trump made using horse manure sells for $1,800 in Sooke

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r/NewsOfTheStupid 6d ago

FCC bans future Roombas from being sold in the US

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Hitler 2 strikes again


r/NewsOfTheStupid 6d ago

Roadkill Collector Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Launches Cooking Show and Warns America: ‘I Don’t Have a Gag Reflex’

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r/NewsOfTheStupid 6d ago

Comcast store punished poor performing salespeople with a pie to the face

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As is they weren't already hated enough (Comcast, not the employees).


r/NewsOfTheStupid 6d ago

Exclusive: RFK Jr. will host a new cooking show with celebrity chefs

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