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4:22Now PlayingThe Republican party has always tried to claim at least for the last 20 years that they are the party of the American military. They are the ones who care about the troops and the Democrats are the ones who do not support these troops whatsoever. Now this has never been based on any reality. I mean, Republicans are the ones who in the, uh, Gulf war, you know, the Iraq war, Afghanistan, all that, they sent them over there without the proper supplies. They sent them over there with bad equipment that allowed them to get killed when the otherwise would not have had the equipment been, uh, you know, fully functional, actually encouraged them to ask their families, to send them catalogs and things like that. You know, buy it on your own. Cause we're not going to give it to you. Uh, but nevertheless, they've always, you know, pushed this myth that somehow the Republicans are the ones who love the troops.
Well, according to a shocking new poll out last week from the military times, the troops don't love the Republicans back, or at least not Donald Trump, specifically half half of these service members polled in this new military times, polled half of them, disapprove of the job that Donald Trump is doing as president of the United States disapprove, meaning they see what he's doing. And they say, I don't approve of this only 38% of service members. Polled said, they look at it and say, yes, I do approve of this. This poll, by the way, has a margin of error of 2%, which is a very good margin of error. And it shows that this poll is in fact accurate. Um, so when you have 49.9%, so we're going to round that up to 50 half of the people in the U S military say, I do not approve of the president.
How do you think that's going to play out for him? Come November? Do you think they're just going to be lining up to say, Oh, let's go cast a ballot for that guy. We don't approve of probably not. Oh sure. There will be plenty of it, of them that do that because just because as they disapprove of Donald Trump does not mean that they approve of Joe Biden, except, I mean, that would be the conventional wisdom wisdom, except they actually understand what it would be like to serve under Joe Biden. Cause he was vice president to Barack Obama, who they also served under. Ah, they did get more benefits under Obama. He did do a good job of taking care of the military. Not necessarily getting them out of these unwinnable forever Wars with no clear objective, he failed on that front. But when it came to actually taking care of them back home, Obama did do a good job, could have done better.
Of course, as always, whatever you do, you can always do better. Uh, but he did a hell of a lot better than Donald Trump, Donald Trump and the troops see this. He is embracing war criminals, criminals who their fellow platoons said, get this person out of here. They do not represent us. We want them gone. That's why we're blowing the whistle on these psychotic murderers. And Trump turns around and pardons them that doesn't sit well with the military. These are people who live by a code. People who believe what they're doing is right. They believe in the ideals of this country and they have sworn their lives to protect it. And when Trump comes along and throws all that in the trash, you know, refers to the troops as, as his army, not the United States army, but his, his army call on a meat that erodes the trust that erodes the willingness to work for him because everybody in the military does work for Donald Trump. He is the commander in chief. They have to do what he says. So let's just hope that come November. They understand that this isn't a sane individual. This isn't the kind of individual they should be taking orders from. So hopefully these military service members are going to band together and give Trump an order to go home. This coming January.
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