Donald Trump is failing the U.S. Military: Using them for his own selfish political purposes

Donald Trump is wasting tax monty with his wrongminded mis-use of the military- National Guard and Marines.

Trump getting booed in lego: A Tump pin featuring Donald Trump getting booed by the crowd in Lego format

Echo opinion letter published in the Philadelphia Inquirer,

It is hard to reconcile Donald Trump’s recent actions and words concerning our military. At the 250th anniversary army parade, he  gave the false impression that the armed forces support him personally, and, therefore, he is using them in ways that threaten our domestic freedoms.

Recently, Donald Trump spoke before troops at Fort Benning in Georgia, some on stage reportedly preselected for Trump loyalty and their appearance. Launching into rally-style attacks on California's brave Governor Gavin Newsom and defending the activation of the National Guard and Marines, these soldiers of our United States Army laughed, jeered, and booed as Trump surely anticipated. Some will casually take that scene as evidence that the army is behind him, and the hideous imagry cannot be unseen.

Similarly, combat-equipped U.S. Marines and California National Guard in the streets of Los Angeles, day after day, for no reason, reinforces the message that this is somehow normal, acceptable, and inevitable. As a veteran, I will always be proud of the Army and my service. I am sad and embarrassed that the Army, through a complicit secretary of defense, is allowing itself to be used by Trump as a prop to advance the most sinister threat to our democracy since the Civil War.

From Joseph B. Baker, West Chester, Pennsylvania