Trump just tweeted: "Remember sailor!" - anyone know what this means?

[oberliner]

Twitter-verse seems to be stumped.

Link to tweet

Edit to Add: Kristian Saucier is the sailor, apparently.

[DetlefK]

1. Sailor Moon? Cyler from "Heroes"? Cyler from "Breaking Bad"?

[underpants]

2. The sailor who got busted having taken pictures inside a sub

Weird story. The sailor was fully aware that photos - he took panoramic shots- inside our subs are very verboten. The guidance system and firing especially. He took the pics and accidentally left his camera at a landfill near San Diego. A Navy retiree found it. He looked through the phone and found the pics. Took it to someone he knew in the Navy (actual NCIS?) and it lead back to the sailor. The sailor got booted and got some time I think. Will research.

[oberliner]

3. Thanks for adding that

I am seeing some twitter responses along those lines also.

Struggling to understand the point being made.

[underpants]

6. Kristian Saucier. It was Connecticut not San Diego. Got a year in prison.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/20/us-navy-sailor-jailed-for-taking-photos-of-classified-areas-of-nuclear-submarine

A US Navy sailor was sentenced on Friday to a year in prison for taking photos of classified areas inside a nuclear attack submarine while it was in port in Connecticut.

Kristian Saucier, of Arlington, Vermont, appeared in federal court in Bridgeport, where a judge also ordered him to serve six months of home confinement with electronic monitoring during a three-year period of supervised release after the prison time. He pleaded guilty in May to unauthorized detention of defense information and had faced five to six years in prison under federal sentencing guidelines.

Saucier took the photos knowing they were classified, but did so only to be able to show his family and future children what he did while he was in the Navy, his lawyers said. He denied sharing the photos with any unauthorized recipient.

The investigation began in 2012 when a waste station supervisor in Hampton, Connecticut, found Saucier’s cellphone with the submarine photos on top of a pile of demolition trash and showed it to his friend, who was a retired Navy chief and brought the phone to the NCIS, according to court documents.

[Hortensis]

12. Here's Daily Beast's explanation. Trump did "sailor" before.

"Donald Trump appears to have compared the FBI director he fired to the Navy sailor who was jailed—and then pardoned by the president—for taking photographs inside top-secret areas of a nuclear submarine. Former sailor Kristian Saucier was jailed for the unauthorized possession and retention of national defense information, but Trump pardoned him in March.

Trump previously compared Saucier’s case to the scandal over Hillary Clinton’s private email server, questioning why the sailor was sent to prison but Clinton was not. Now he appears to have used exactly the same tactic on Comey,..."

[unblock]

19. the pardon would appear to undercut the rhetorical value of the comparison....

... unless trying to tangle the pardon in exchange for favorable testimony is meant as part of the comparison...

[Hortensis]

23. Lol. Logic??! Come on.

Sailor sent to prison, but not Hillary. Baad! Crooked DoJ. Injustice!

Storm the courthouse.



Back to my coffee while honorable people work to contain this beast. Almost warm enough for morning on the porch.

[unblock]

27. Rofl! Silly me

[hlthe2b]

4. good memory... it does vaguely ring a bell. I'm sure Trump must have talked about it during

campaign for whatever self-serving purpose...

[underpants]

8. This is a big talking point on the right (especially radio) with comparisons to....Hillary of course

Pence and Kaine went after each other on this at the VP debate. Typically Pence was just saying what his audience wanted to hear or were used to hearing. Their propaganda runs them.


Snopes gives it a "Mixture"

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/kristian-saucier/

[poboy2]

16. Yes, T/P verbalize the catch phrases and trigger words to steer/guide the hoard. -nt

[PunkinPi]

15. You are correct...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/remember-sailor-donald-trump-twitter-james-comey-threat-explained-what-mean-a8325166.html?utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#link_time=1524826396

Interesting tidbit, Trump just recently pardoned Saucier (from the article):

The phrase seems to be a reference to Kristian Saucier, a Navy submariner who was pardoned by Donald Trump last month. He had been convicted of illegally taking pictures from inside a navy vessel in 2009.

[poboy2]

17. wtf indeed. No rhyme or reason. Nothing seems coherent. -nt

[PunkinPi]

20. We are in bizzaro world these days. nt

[underpants]

28. I didn't know he'd pardoned him

That makes the comment even more bizarre

[Adrahil]

30. Yeah, that's it, I think. NT

[JNelson6563]

5. I was going to guess Sailor Moon.

[Fullduplexxx]

7. Covfefe ... mayday .... warning.... danger will robinson...remember sailor ... somebody do something

He's imploding

[whttevrr]

10. Not imploding... it might be a lucid day...

He is making a direct correlation to relevant facts from the past.

It is a disingenuous relevancy, and he is using that reference to tar Comey with the specter of releasing information that could get him thrown in jail.

It does not matter that Comey did nothing illegal and will never spend a minute incarcerated, or even charged. It only matters that Trump paints him with that smear. Trump is a Relentless Shit Talker.

Never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.

[Old Vet]

14. I 100% concur..............

[Vinca]

9. Maybe it's secret code for Vlad's benefit.

"Help! Send the private jet!"

[Tommy_Carcetti]

11. He's giving us all a fun nickname. Like "sport" or "Chief."

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Afterwards he's going to go around to everyone and give us all a good scruff on the head.

[milestogo]

13. Sinbad the Sailor

[dembotoz]

18. Popeye the sailor man

[KY_EnviroGuy]

21. Bad spell check correction?

Who knows and parsing his every word ain't worth our time. The pResident shouldn't be using Twitter, and many agree that he probably does not compose most of them anyway.

I hope eventually he is held accountable for every word he speaks and Tweets. He and his cohorts can't be gone quickly enough.

..... .......

[LuckyCharms]

22. Covfefe's brother. n/t

[malaise]

24. Ronny Jackson was Navy n/t

[poboy2]

31. Good point! You found a corn kernel in the poop! lol -nt

[LostOne4Ever]

25. Cant be Sailor Moon. That show is too cool for someone like him! Nt

[Botany]

26. Yes, it means that Trump is fucking nuts.

Link to tweet

[Lars39]

29. Loose lips sink ships?