Donald Trump is scheduled to address the nation Monday night to unveil his new plan to try to win the 16-year war in Afghanistan. The strategy may include an escalation of combat, with Trump sending more U.S. troops to put their lives at risk. But that hasn’t stopped Trump from snubbing the military, which has […]

Famed Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein told CNN there’s a growing consensus within senior levels of the government that Donald Trump is “unfit to be the president of the United States.” Stressing there is “increasing talk about his emotional and mental stability,” Bernstein warned, “This is extraordinary. It’s a dangerous moment in our history.” Alluding to […]

The Republican Party has long claimed to venerate the armed forces and those who put their lives on the line to serve our country. But as Donald Trump continues to sink deeper into scandal and criminal investigation, Republicans have seemed to harbor a special venom for any veteran deemed insufficiently loyal to the president. Even […]

Donald Trump’s bigoted ban on transgender military service keeps blowing up in his face. Now 56 retired generals and admirals are blasting Trump for the ban as well. In a brutal statement released Tuesday, the retired officers said Trump’s ban “would cause significant disruptions, deprive the military of mission-critical talent, and compromise the integrity of […]

In the span of a single week, Donald Trump managed to push three major organizations — ones which, idealistically, ought to be in his corner — to issue stinging public rebukes to the president over his numerous offensive statements and actions. The Boy Scouts of America, the Pentagon, and both individual police departments as well […]

Undercutting the White House’s assertion that Donald Trump announced his sweeping new directive to remove all transgender people from the U.S. military after consulting with top Pentagon officials, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff announced there would be no action on the ban because the armed services don’t yet know what the ban […]

At a White House briefing last week, Press Secretary Sean Spicer was asked where Donald Trump was during the operation in Yemen that tragically resulted in the death of U.S. Navy Seal Chief William “Ryan” Owens, as well as other injuries to service members and, reportedly, double-digit civilian casualties that included children. Spicer gave this stunning […]

Days after being sworn in, Donald Trump enacted a hiring freeze in the federal government. At the time, outlets like The Military Times reported that the decision could cause unintended consequences and disruption in the armed services. As usual, Trump did not listen. Now we are learning that these decisions, made to make a splash […]

Republicans have long insisted that a major obstacle to defeating ISIS is the Obama administration’s reluctance to use the phrase “radical Islamic terrorism.” Perhaps they felt safer when President-elect Donald Trump declared the assassin of Russia’s ambassador to Turkey a “radical Islamic terrorist,” and used similar language to describe the attacker who killed at least 12 people […]

When Donald Trump announced his candidacy, his opening salvo was to say that Mexico was not sending “their best,” but “people with lots of problems.” His anti-immigrant rhetoric has continued throughout the campaign, particularly centered on Mexican and Muslim immigrants. His words and policies have been rooted in fear-mongering, eliding the many significant contributions that […]

Donald Trump’s suggestion that veterans who take their own lives “can’t handle it,” thus implying they are somehow weaker than veterans who survive, is not just deeply insensitive, but flatly wrong. Illness, whether physical or psychological, is not indicative of “weakness.” At a campaign stop in Florida, Joe Biden reacted to Trump’s heartless comments. If ever […]

Here is where Trump’s carelessness matters: https://twitter.com/SopanDeb/status/778036404702019584 Trump may be directing his insults at President Obama, but if you read the transcript above, Trump is calling our military the “gang that couldn’t shoot straight.” He is categorically unfit to be commander in chief.