What Kind of ‘Psycho’ Calls Dead Americans ‘Losers’ and ‘Suckers’?
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Updated on Friday, June 28, 2024 at 5:06 p.m. ET
Perhaps you’ve noticed lately that Donald Trump, a man not known for subtlety, has been testing the limits of the Streisand effect. At one event after another—at a rally, then a fundraiser, in remarks on his social platform, and in at least one video that his campaign distributed online—Trump keeps reminding his supporters about his well-documented habit of disparaging America’s military service members as “dumb,” “losers,” and “suckers.”
“To think that I would, in front of generals and others, say ‘suckers’ and ‘losers,’” Trump said with performative incredulity at the CNN-hosted presidential debate Thursday night. (“You’re the sucker, you’re the loser,” Biden later fired back.)
“Think of it, from a practical standpoint,” before a crowd in Las Vegas earlier this month. “I’m standing there with generals and military people in a cemetery, and I look at them and say, ‘These people are suckers and losers.’ Now, think of it; unless you’re a psycho or a crazy person or a very
