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"This We'll Defend!" Spineless Army Leaders Defend Nothing at Ft. Bragg

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David DeBatto
Jun 11, 2025
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Donald Trump at Fort Bragg on June 10, 2025

Yesterday, President Donald Trump addressed thousands of soldiers at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Normally, a U.S. president addressing American troops at a U.S. military installation would be a minor story at best. However, as with all things Trump, there are no minor stories, especially regarding the U.S. military, his favorite pawns to feed his insatiable narcissism. But yesterday’s performance by the traitor-in-chief perhaps set a new and dangerous tone for the future.

Trump launched into his usual adolescent rants about how great he is and how not so great everyone else is. You know the song. We have heard it all many times before. But yesterday’s rant, set against a sea of maroon colored beret wearing troops in camouflage unforms may have introduced the end of any semblance of a non-political, non-partisan American military, and launched us into a new era of an American military loyal to and accountable only to the President of the United…

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