Donald Trump provides no leadership to the courageous U.S. military

Donald Trump shows contempt for military.  

Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are ‘Losers’ and ‘Suckers’
The president has repeatedly disparaged the intelligence of service members, and asked that wounded veterans be kept out of military parades, multiple sources tell The Atlantic.

In fact, he has fired the generals who were working for him including like McMaster, Kelly and Mattis. 

General James Mattis denounced Donald Trump, and escribed him as a threat to the Constitution. In an extraordinary condemnation, the former defense secretary backed the protesters and said Trump is trying to turn Americans against one another.

In The Week, this commentary summarizes how Trump has shown contempt for the American military troops.  (Just look at how Trump treated US Navy Captain Brett Crozier, the former commanding officer of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt who was relieved of duty after raising the alarm about a Covid-19 outbreak on his ship in March. ... Crozier will not be eligible for future command, effectively ending his Navy career.)

The courage it takes to fight and die for your country is hard for many civilians to comprehend, said Max Boot, in The Washington Post.  Donald Trump marvels at it too, apparently - just "not in a complimentary way". 

"Trump's hypocrisy is sickening. His actions display consistent contempt for the armed forces and their ethos of “duty, honor, country.” All he cares about is using troops as political props. To see how little Trump truly respects our military, all you have to do is examine the differing treatment of three decorated veterans: Alexander Vindman, Eric Greitens, and Anthony J. Tata", wrote Boot.

A recent bombshell story in The Atlantic , by Jeffrey Goldberg (September 3, 2020), repoted that Trump repeatedly startled aides by describing US. troops who have died for their country as "suckers" and "losers".  During the Armistice Day memorial in France, in 2018, the White House publicly blamed poor flying condidtions for his skiping a ceremony at a cemetery filled with American oldiers.  In private, multiple sources say, Trump was worried the wind and rain would leave his hair disheveled, in front of cameras, and asked why he sould visit a cemetery "filled with losers". Trump once accompanied then- Secretary of Homeland Security General John Kelly to Arlington National Cemetery, and at the grave of Kelly's son, who was killed inAfghanistan, he told Kelly directly, "I don't get it. What was in it for them?" White House insiders were understandably unwilling to go on record, said Jefrey Goldberg, in The Atlantic. But, several said the draat-dodging, money-obsessed Trump "simply does not underestad non-tranactional life choices", and nurses a deep "cynicism about heroism and sacrifice". 

Maybe Trump did say those things, said Jeff Groom, in TheAmericanConservative.com, but, Trump's "crassness and superficial callousness" are hardly news at this point. What matters more to our troops are his actions. Colonel Jeff McCausland in NBCNews.com said our troops and their families deserve a leader that understands military service and "truly cares about their welfare".  

Trump, doesn't care that Russia is paying the Taliban to kill Americans, he praises war criinals as heroes and uses generals like Kelly, Mattis nd McMaster as props, only to discard and denegrate them.  It's time for these generals to tell Aemricans on the record whether The Atlantic story is true.  "Their silence right now is truly deafening."