From a public service perspective, it seems weird to offer money to a parent of a dead soldier because, due to legal separation of the parents, they aren’t entitled to their child’s benefits... It’s a slippery slope to do it, and certainly you wouldn’t want it made public because wouldn’t every single direct…

When he leaves the whitehouse, I wish someone would kick him in the junk. Then, while he lies curled up and wailing on the ground, the kicker informs him that “You knew what you signed up for when you left the house today.”

Agreed. Bush was responsible for every soldier. So was, Obama and fucking trump. As such, they make sure there is back up for them. Trump provided zero back up for these four fallen men. Yet, we blame HRC for not providing backup for non military personnel. Civilian soldiers have zero guarantee of back up. None.…

As a military brat, I couldn’t agree with you more.

But do hard-core right-wingers really support the troops or do they just give lip service to the idea and not really give a shit if someone dies in a war we shouldn’t have started in the first place?

I’m sorry, but you are dead wrong about that. I scanned through the ‘what others are saying’ part of the story in Facebook’s trending thingy and...UGHH. “Trump, once again, is telling the truth.”, “I don’t understand why this is a scandal.”, “The MSM never treats trump fairly and this is no different.” The supporters…

His base are all white supremacists. So Trump disrespecting an African American fallen soldier (as he also disrespected the Khan family) is perfectly fine with them. I WISH I were kidding.

And I’m willing to bet that Trump offered money because he is incapable of offering kindness, decency or empathy, and thought that money would make up for it. And then he immediately forgot about it the moment he hung up, because he only cares about himself and his yawning maw of an insatiable ego.

I mean, he insulted John McCain’s status as a POW survivor. I would have thought “John McCain’s status as a war hero” would be a sacred cow among Republicans.

This is actually the first thing he’s done that made me cry. When we were engaged, my now-husband was active duty MC and did two deployments. I never went through what real military wives go through - more than anything, we didn’t have kids yet - but it was a constant effort to be chill. He’s still a reservist and…

Really puts into perspective how fucking worthless Trump is. As much needless suffering as Bush caused, he at least knew the most fundamental truth: that he was responsible for the life of every soldier under his command, and every single death was on his hands. He understood the gravity of his decisions. Trump does…

Yeah, the father is kind of a dick himself. He complained that the soldier’s government life insurance ($100K) was all going to the mother and none to him, but that was the soldier’s decision. He could have named his father as beneficiary (or split the benefit), but chose to name his mom. I’m guessing it wouldn’t be…

So, full disclosure: I was an army wife for a period, divorced my ex who is still a soldier, and we are both happily remarried and we all get along, lalala

I love that White House statement.