Trump says 'I won't be changing my mind' on his view that brain injuries suffered by US troops
Source: Business Insider
President Donald Trump on Monday doubled down on his assertion that the injuries suffered by US troops during an Iranian missile attack on US forces are "not very serious."
Retaliating for the death of Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani at the hands of the US military, Iran fired over a dozen ballistic missiles at US and coalition forces in Iraq in early January. In the immediate aftermath, the president announced that "no Americans were harmed" and moved to de-escalate tensions.
Since then, the number of US troops diagnosed with mild traumatic brain injuries has steadily risen to 109, the Pentagon said on Monday.
Symptoms of a TBI can be slow to manifest and sometimes harder to detect than other injuries. The Department of Defense has offered this as an explanation for initial misreporting on injuries.
Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-says-wont-change-his-mind-on-troop-brain-injuries-2020-2?op=1
The doctor will see you now...
Kali
(54,990 posts)Lulu KC
(2,547 posts)greymattermom
(5,751 posts)With him, everything is personal.
ScratchCat
(1,957 posts)Trump launched the assassination attack without Putin's authorization and Putin wasn't too happy about it. Iran's response actually harmed American troops, which could have been used for justification for more attacks/escalation. But Putin doesn't want escalation right now. So Trump has to deny that any Americans were injured because otherwise there was no reason to back down if troops had been injured. So what you are seeing is Trump deny any troops were injured.
Wuddles440
(1,098 posts)regarding Putin's likely involvement in this imbroglio! I'm sure that he conceded to a limited response by Iran in exchange for requiring them to then stand down until further notice. He doesn't want anything to disrupt his long term agenda for dramatically weakening the US by keeping Il Douche in office.
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)If the same had happened to Trump, he might not even notice since his brain has been damaged for years.
Brain injuries are nothing to mess with. Not so much bone spurs.
pwb
(11,205 posts).
empedocles
(15,751 posts)Should go over big with the troops.
not_the_one
(2,227 posts)Trump implies that soldiers are now faking brain injuries to make HIM look bad.
They are ONLY concussions.
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)Did he read the MRIs? Oh, yeah, he doesnt read. Just plays a doctor on T.V.
B Stieg
(2,410 posts)aw, just shut up, "Commander-in-Grift."
Aviation Pro
(12,053 posts)I'm sure he'll feel that way after he's brained by a 6'7", 295lb inmate.
brooklynite
(93,854 posts)BusyBeingBest
(8,049 posts)Midnightwalk
(3,131 posts)The denial is partly to take the focus on his role in the situation.
At the time, most of the American reaction to the strike which included about a dozen ballistic missiles, some carrying upward of 1,100 pounds of high explosives was muted gratitude that it was limited, there were no American casualties, and there would be no spiral of escalation.
[link:https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/12/opinion/iran-us-trump.html|]
I think many of us were relieved it didnt escalate further, but 109 brain injuries is a high price to pay for a poorly thought out assassination. Regardless of whether suleimani deserved it, these soldiers are collateral damage.
Lulu KC
(2,547 posts)Response to brooklynite (Original post)
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NCjack
(10,279 posts)and change his mind.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)Firestorm49
(4,002 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Might as well just write every headline as "Turd just said another insanely stupid piece of nonsense. No details (worth mentioning) at 11:00."
world wide wally
(21,719 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)angrydem666
(9 posts)what he doesn't have.
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)"I'm the best there ever is."
keithbvadu2
(36,366 posts)RockRaven
(14,783 posts)Alienate as many voters as possible, Dotard.
Bengus81
(6,907 posts)Rider3
(919 posts)that'll make him be wrong, and he's never wrong...
Ohiogal
(31,660 posts)Traumatic brain injuries than doctors do ...
Vogon_Glory
(9,085 posts)And where was Donnie
When the guns began to fire?
When the guns began to fire, boys
When the guns began to fire?
In a snow-White mansion, boys
In a house all painted white
Nursing his aching bone-spurs
Nursing his bone spurs.
(With apologies to Rudyard Kipling)
CRK7376
(2,187 posts)Dr Trump will see you now.......oh wait, he's not a doctor and he has never been on the receiving end of a rocket attack....COWARD is what he is.
democrank
(11,052 posts)So easy for him to announce not very serious, all this TBI stuff. So easy for him to sit back and spew this crap about these injured soldiers. Bone spurs....thats the real serious stuff!
Trump is a disgusting world-wide embarrassment.
world wide wally
(21,719 posts)MFGsunny
(2,356 posts).... (select all that apply)
1. I didn't do it.
2. Even if I had done it, it was right.
3. How could a stable genius like me be wrong? (Does "stable" here stand for its common contents, like horsesh*t?) Asking for another genius.
4. If you think I'm wrong, you're a disgrace.
IcyPeas
(21,745 posts)DBoon
(22,286 posts)quote from Dan Quayle, who started the stupid republican trend
maxsolomon
(32,989 posts)Trump's not going to get in that box.
From my layman's perspective:
TBI = concussion.
The repercussions (pun - LOL) from repeated TBIs are what the NFL is dealing with now. CTE.
aka-chmeee
(1,129 posts)Hannity could be waterboarded(finally!) and a Trump demonstration of how injuries from near proximity to large explosions are harmless.
Collimator
(1,639 posts)This is a weird variation of "The blind leading the blind."
Or rather, "The brain injured evaluating the brain injured."