A Commentary on Our President
Like it or not, how can anyone deny that President Trump has forfeited any semblance of dignity, honor and respect. Having avoided military service by faking bone spurs, he proceeds to ridicule the late Senator McCain despite him being held as a prisoner of war for over five years in Viet Nam.
On top of that, he continues to ridicule Special Counsel Robert Mueller despite his honorable service in that same war. Nothing will wash that shame away by any definition.
Well, you can still respect the office. Trump’s remarks about McCain during the primary were ill-advised, even if supportable. McCain’s moment of heroism may have been during the fire on the USS Forrestal, although there is a school that claims he started the fire by mistakenly kicking in his boosters while still on deck. Having a father who is over your command is both a plus and a minus. Fog of war, no one will ever know for sure. He was certainly courageous in flying missions over Viet Nam. Getting captured and suffering terribly for five years was not heroic, just sad. The only heroic act open to him was a suicidal attack on the Cong and that was a lot to ask. I don’t recall that Trump was disrespectful after his death. He extended condolences to the family without praising McCain. To have done so would have been false and hypocritical. He was in a no-win situation. I am hardly a Trump supporter as his style grates on me and I realize that he has been the cause of much of the turmoil around him. Nevertheless, I have begun to admire him for the way he persists when the whole left wing and right wing establishment, the Academy, and the Press are aligned against him and anxious to magnify all of his flaws. If the Democrats put up another joke candidate in 2020 (I see nothing but trouble for this on the horizon – all they have are the senile and the crazies) I will probably vote for Trump in 2020. Six out of Ten Hoosiers went for Trump in 2016 and if he runs again he will probably do even better as long as the economy holds up. Dave Young