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Trump a good General?

Would Trump have made a good general?

  • Say what now? Private bonespurs would have been a really bad general

    Votes: 17 35.4%
  • Excuse me? He cannot properly lead a cabinet, he would be a terrible general

    Votes: 16 33.3%
  • Sure, he could have been a good general, of toy soldiers in his attic

    Votes: 9 18.8%
  • Yes, I believe he would have made a good general, he has leadership qualities

    Votes: 3 6.3%
  • Yes, Trump can do anything so if he says he would be a good general, I believe him

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • dude, the man is a raving lunatic, nothing he says is to be believed

    Votes: 25 52.1%
  • I am not going to respond to anything that man has to say, I am done with him

    Votes: 7 14.6%
  • Other, …...................

    Votes: 4 8.3%

  • Total voters
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During a cabinet meeting Trump stated:

“I think I would have been a good general, but who knows?”

On the way to him pronouncing himself a good potential general he gave slighted actual military man Mattis with the statement that he had “essentially” fired the general from his position as Secretary of Defense because he had done “not too good” in Afghanistan.

So what do you think, would Trump have made a good general?
 

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During a cabinet meeting Trump stated:



On the way to him pronouncing himself a good potential general he gave slighted actual military man Mattis with the statement that he had “essentially” fired the general from his position as Secretary of Defense because he had done “not too good” in Afghanistan.

So what do you think, would Trump have made a good general?
He was well liked, competent and a leader at military school so maybe who knows...
 

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He would have to get past one day in OTS. Wouldn't make it. Too lazy and undisciplined. And would never have been accepted to a full fledged military academy as he wouldn't make the grade.

The NYMA he attended was a boarding school college prep school rich people sent their problem children to. He was a problem child and still is.
 

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He was well liked, competent and a leader at military school so maybe who knows...

In the intervening half century or so, it would seem that all those traits have atrophied, if they were in existence ever..........
 

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During a cabinet meeting Trump stated:



On the way to him pronouncing himself a good potential general he gave slighted actual military man Mattis with the statement that he had “essentially” fired the general from his position as Secretary of Defense because he had done “not too good” in Afghanistan.

So what do you think, would Trump have made a good general?

He has demonstratedd that he is unable to select and keep the loyalty of his most important allies. That sums it up.
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He has demonstratedd that he is unable to select and keep the loyalty of his most important allies. That sums it up.
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And has a tendency to cozy up to the enemies of the US
 

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During a cabinet meeting Trump stated:



On the way to him pronouncing himself a good potential general he gave slighted actual military man Mattis with the statement that he had “essentially” fired the general from his position as Secretary of Defense because he had done “not too good” in Afghanistan.

So what do you think, would Trump have made a good general?

Whatever happened to simply "Yes, No, Other" options?

This poll has literally six "options" for "no" that demonstrate crass levels of negative bias where a simple "No, explain" would have served.
 
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He was well liked, competent and a leader at military school so maybe who knows...

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He was well liked, competent and a leader at military school so maybe who knows...

More lies from an old socialist hippy Trump supporter. Some things never change:

Former cadets recall the change differently. They say school administrators transferred Trump after a freshman named Lee Ains complained of being hazed by a sergeant under Trump’s command. School officials, those cadets say, were concerned that Trump’s style of delegating leadership responsibilities while spending a lot of time in his room, away from his team, allowed problems to fester.

“They felt he wasn’t paying attention to his other officers as closely as he should have,” said Ains, who lives in Connecticut and works in the aerospace industry.

50 years later, disagreements over young Trump’s military academy record
 

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Whatever happened to simply "Yes, No, Other" options?

This poll has literally six "options" for "no" that demonstrate crass levels of negative bias where a simple "No, explain" would have served.

haha. Triggered.
 

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During a cabinet meeting Trump stated:



On the way to him pronouncing himself a good potential general he gave slighted actual military man Mattis with the statement that he had “essentially” fired the general from his position as Secretary of Defense because he had done “not too good” in Afghanistan.

So what do you think, would Trump have made a good general?

He stated he knows more than they do so sure!
 

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Whatever happened to simply "Yes, No, Other" options?

This poll has literally six "options" for "no" that demonstrate crass levels of negative bias where a simple "No, explain" would have served.

This is where you want to cry “foul!”
 

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During a cabinet meeting Trump stated:



On the way to him pronouncing himself a good potential general he gave slighted actual military man Mattis with the statement that he had “essentially” fired the general from his position as Secretary of Defense because he had done “not too good” in Afghanistan.

So what do you think, would Trump have made a good general?

General Disorder maybe.
 

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We have zero reason to think Trump would have been a good general.
 

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In the intervening half century or so, it would seem that all those traits have atrophied, if they were in existence ever..........

They disappeared somewhere between his first and second week as captain in military school at 17.
 

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During a cabinet meeting Trump stated:



On the way to him pronouncing himself a good potential general he gave slighted actual military man Mattis with the statement that he had “essentially” fired the general from his position as Secretary of Defense because he had done “not too good” in Afghanistan.

So what do you think, would Trump have made a good general?

Kids are taught to believe they can be anything. It looks like Trump is a product of secular public education.
 

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Kids are taught to believe they can be anything. It looks like Trump is a product of secular public education.

Are you serious? He was privately educated his entire academic life.
 

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I would have loved to welcome this silver-spoon daddy's boy to Parris Island.
 

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More lies from an old socialist hippy Trump supporter.

False. It was a proper trolling from the Russian Factory. Feigned support. Like no one was gonna post reports from then? Of course they were. Who didn't know that?
 

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Beyond winning battles and bringing home as many of his men as possible, what makes a general a good general?
 

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He was well liked, competent and a leader at military school so maybe who knows...

I have a suspicion his chess game is played at the 2nd grade level.
 
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