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Kid Berwyn

(21,323 posts)
9. "A fucking Mexican!"
Sun May 18, 2025, 10:31 AM
May 18

Specialist Vanessa Guillén, US Army (deceased, murdered, likely by a fellow soldier). She is no more Mexican than Trump's grandfather, Frederick the Draft Dodger. Ms. Guillén was born a citizen of the United States. And she died an American, while serving our country.



Trump: ‘I Need the Kind of Generals That Hitler Had’

The Republican nominee’s preoccupation with dictators, and his disdain for the American military, is deepening.


By Jeffrey Goldberg
The Atlantic, October 22, 2024

In April 2020, Vanessa Guillén, a 20-year-old Army private, was bludgeoned to death by a fellow soldier at Fort Hood, in Texas. The killer, aided by his girlfriend, burned Guillén’s body. Guillén’s remains were discovered two months later, buried in a riverbank near the base, after a massive search.

Guillén, the daughter of Mexican immigrants, grew up in Houston, and her murder sparked outrage across Texas and beyond. Fort Hood had become known as a particularly perilous assignment for female soldiers, and members of Congress took up the cause of reform. Shortly after her remains were discovered, President Donald Trump himself invited the Guillén family to the White House. With Guillén’s mother seated beside him, Trump spent 25 minutes with the family as television cameras recorded the scene.

In the meeting, Trump maintained a dignified posture and expressed sympathy to Guillén’s mother. “I saw what happened to your daughter Vanessa, who was a spectacular person, and respected and loved by everybody, including in the military,” Trump said. Later in the conversation, he made a promise: “If I can help you out with the funeral, I’ll help—I’ll help you with that,” he said. “I’ll help you out. Financially, I’ll help you.”

Snip...

According to attendees, and to contemporaneous notes of the meeting taken by a participant, an aide answered: Yes, we received a bill; the funeral cost $60,000.

Trump became angry. “It doesn’t cost 60,000 bucks to bury a fucking Mexican!” He turned to his chief of staff, Mark Meadows, and issued an order: “Don’t pay it!” Later that day, he was still agitated. “Can you believe it?” he said, according to a witness. “Fucking people, trying to rip me off.”

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https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/10/trump-military-generals-hitler/680327/

Putin's puppet is the one who should be slurred and shamed.

Spec. Guillén is an American hero.

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G.O.P. wants to rub their draft-dodging felon in the faces of our honorable soldiers BoRaGard May 18 #1
LOL +1 Emile May 18 #3
Somebody should order a bunch of those!!! calimary May 18 #11
Goood question. marble falls May 18 #2
If he had bone spurs they would still show up on an x-ray. Show us your bone spurs Donny. Botany May 18 #4
his Happy Birthday To Me parade eShirl May 18 #5
"Hey, suckers and losers, give me a parade", oasis May 18 #6
And WE Get To Pay For IT! Mr.Bee May 18 #7
Gutting essential services to The People then making us all pay for him to have events to make himself feel 'powerful'? Attilatheblond May 18 #8
"A fucking Mexican!" Kid Berwyn May 18 #9
G.O.P. draft dodger disrespects family of American soldier BoRaGard May 18 #12
I would like to see comments in every newspaper in the country! young_at_heart May 18 #20
and "" dosent give a hoot, hoot hoot. AllaN01Bear May 18 #10
The South End of a Northbound Yak... GiqueCee May 18 #13
Stolen valor Seinan Sensei May 18 #14
yep poozwah May 18 #21
I think that will make a great sign for protesting--"Trump's Stolen Valor Birthday Parade"--something along those lines. Timeflyer May 18 #25
He did more than chicken out randr May 18 #15
The military could leverage their enlistment oath and defend the constitution against a domestic enemy and Hotler May 18 #16
I tried to find one Trump family member in his Emile May 18 #17
Trump's paternal grandfather, Frederick Trump (originally Friedrich Drumpf), emigrated to the United States sop May 18 #18
draft dodger ConnieAZ1 May 18 #27
Three generations of draft dodgers... sop May 18 #28
generational draft dodgers Skittles May 18 #29
He was celebrating having a non-existent but agonizing bonespur and shouting "USA! USA!" Ping Tung May 18 #19
samuel johnson poozwah May 18 #24
On a scale of to 10, this Trump birthday parade pisses me off in the 1000+ range. democrank May 18 #22
Push this emotional button with vets and families of vets. . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz May 18 #23
Many guys got deferments. But Trump he lied to get his, that's a difference. Walleye May 18 #26
Just curious... why is everyone referring to it as Trump Birthday Parade? WarGamer May 18 #30
I'm glad you added the last paragraph. yorkster May 18 #31
Draft Dodgers do NOT deserve a military parade LetMyPeopleVote May 18 #32
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