“That man doesn’t deserve to have been the commander in chief for my son, my uncle,” he said, referring to Beau Biden and Ambrose Finnegan, who both served in the military

President Joe Biden choked up Wednesday talking about the military service of his family members and former President Donald Trump’s disparaging remarks about service members.

“They asked [Trump] to go visit American gravesites. He said, ‘No.’ He wouldn’t do it. Because they were all ‘suckers’ and ‘losers,’” Biden told a crowd of union workers. “I’m not making that up. The staff who were with him acknowledge it today. Suckers and losers.”

He paused for a moment and added, “That man doesn’t deserve to have been the commander in chief for my son, my uncle.” Beau Biden and Ambrose Finnegan both served in the military before Trump took office.

Biden’s comments referred to Trump’s 2018 trip to Paris for the centennial of the end of World War I, when he declined to visit the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery and reportedly called Marines who died at Belleau Wood “suckers” and fallen soldiers at the U.S. cemetery “losers.”

  • Neato
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    1402 months ago

    Any service member who supports Trump is indeed a “sucker and loser”. You pretty much have to be to that that kind of abuse and still support him.

    • neoman4426
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      372 months ago

      Also must not give a shit about their oath if they support Trump, defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic and all that

    • @jkrtn@lemmy.ml
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      212 months ago

      Just any poor to middle class who supports Trump is a sucker and loser, including the service members. The only people supporting him who aren’t suckers are deeply sociopathic.

    • @Ballistic_86@lemmy.world
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      102 months ago

      The cemetery in question is in France and exclusively for Americans who died in The Great War (WW1). None of those men knew or supported Donald Trump, as he was not born for another 30 years.