Are Trump Supporters Even Scratching Their Heads Yet?

Yes, he's reduced the national debt by picking up gains in the stock market.  Are you kidding me?

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Can't bring myself to look.

In a Fox News interview with Sean Hannity on Wednesday, the first question that Trump was asked was whether he was thinking of North Korea when he made his enigmatic comment earlier in October [about "the calm before the storm"].

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“We can't let this go on. We just can’t,” Trump said, responding to Hannity’s question.

  RT

Yeah, with him, you can't tell if that's an affirmative answer or not.

Trump, who recently tweeted that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was “wasting his time” in talking to North Korea, praised U.S. military capabilities. “I’m building up the military like no one has ever seen,” he said.

“We build the greatest military equipment in the world, we have missiles that can knock out a missile in the air 97% of the time. If you send two of them, it’s going to get knocked out” he added, although current and former military officials and experts are less confident of the U.S. missile defense capabilities, Politico reported in July.

  Newsweek

He's building up the military like no one has ever seen. Right.

That reminds me: there's an interesting video interview of Andrew Bacevich (retired colonel and military historian) in which he makes the argument that the US should restructure the armed forces to what it was during Viet Nam - including reinstating the draft - and doing away with the professional military. He makes it make sense. The interview was conducted last December after Trump won the election. (In a talk just prior to the interview, he predicts pretty much exactly the "troubled times" we are into. Unfortunately, Mike Flynn - a lunatic, according to Bacevich - was the designated secretary of defense, so that informed his prediction to a great degree, I'm sure.  But still, he wasn't wrong in his assessment of where we were about to go.)

Hannity pushed the president to discuss his strategy in confronting North Korea, but Trump once again refused to explain his plan. “I’m not saying I’m doing anything and I’m not saying I’m not, but we shouldn’t be talking about it,” Trump said, holding on to his belief that unpredictability is a virtue.

Then STFU with the threats.

While speaking with Fox News' Sean Hannity at an Air National Guard hangar in Middletown, Pennsylvania, Trump paused as loudspeakers began playing the tune, "Retreat," in the distance.

It's part of a firmly rooted tradition that predates the American Revolutionary War; the US military tune signals the start and end of the official duty day.

"What a nice sound that is," Trump said, as the tune began playing. "Are they playing that for you or for me?"

"They're playing that in honor of his ratings," Trump quipped, answering his own question to Hannity. "He's beating everybody."

  AOL

Lord help us.

When the American flag is lowered and raised on US military installations, a bugle blares on loudspeakers as service members and civilians pay their respects to the flag.

Uniformed service members located outside of a building are required to stop and salute the flag, while civilians are required to place their hand over their heart. The tradition also requires service members who are driving vehicles on a military base to pull over and render a salute.

Good god.