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"I would have won Vietnam very quickly" (Original Post) dalton99a 12 hrs ago OP
I'm calling bullshit. surfered 12 hrs ago #1
Not even necessary. BootinUp 12 hrs ago #4
Generalissimo Bone Spurs knows more about war than the generals. nt hvn_nbr_2 11 hrs ago #28
I'm calling narcissistic psychotic Mtnmama 9 hrs ago #57
Oh..... THAT, too. electric_blue68 4 hrs ago #74
I'll raise that to "full of shit". oasis 9 hrs ago #65
Dunning Kruger effect. When you are a narcissistic simpleton, everything looks so simple and has no complications. Doodley 12 hrs ago #2
I call him the Dunning-Kruger President and his remaining supporters Dunning-Kruger voters. Redleg 8 hrs ago #69
He would have discovered General Relativity BootinUp 12 hrs ago #3
More likely he would say, "I want Relativity to be one of my Generals." Intractable 11 hrs ago #22
"General Relativity came up to me, big strong man, with tears in his eyes...." (nt) Pinback 10 hrs ago #44
He would have fired that General Martin Eden 10 hrs ago #43
lol. Inconceivable! BootinUp 2 hrs ago #84
That word you used Martin Eden 1 hr ago #85
my sarcastic suggestion was too BootinUp 52 min ago #86
BS Rebl2 12 hrs ago #5
More likely fragged by his platoon.... n/t lastlib 12 hrs ago #15
No worries about getting fragged. He would stay state-side and golf. erronis 11 hrs ago #25
(They'd still frag him..... lastlib 10 hrs ago #42
As the saying goes .... bucolic_frolic 12 hrs ago #6
The man couldn't even fit in a Cu Chi tunnel. Baitball Blogger 12 hrs ago #7
well, yeah, maybe... Conjuay 12 hrs ago #8
By dropping a nuke on Hanoi, probably. Ocelot II 12 hrs ago #9
WHAT! I wasted all that time protesting the Vietnam War and coulda just made it go away???? CTyankee 12 hrs ago #10
The Moron-in-Chief would have been in his early 20s MineralMan 12 hrs ago #11
Myself being a Vietnam vet, I would punch Emile 12 hrs ago #12
As a Gulf Vet... purr-rat beauty 10 hrs ago #36
Me, too. Aristus 9 hrs ago #66
You show remarkable self-restraint... Moostache 10 hrs ago #37
The proper Marine response was, BidenRocks 10 hrs ago #47
Having not heard about your tragedy- How Horrific for her, you and all whom cared about her! electric_blue68 4 hrs ago #75
''Blunt Testicular Trauma'' from me. n/t aggiesal 10 hrs ago #49
insufferable Skittles 3 hrs ago #77
A repulsive, cowardly braggart Mysterian 12 hrs ago #13
Just like you did with the Ukraine/Russia war? spanone 12 hrs ago #14
That fucker is flat out bonkers. Solly Mack 12 hrs ago #16
More likely to have been Niedermeyer (Animal House) Danmel 11 hrs ago #17
Vanity, thy name is Trump. nt eppur_se_muova 11 hrs ago #18
You mean malaise 9 hrs ago #64
"And the Trojan Ten Year war in two weeks, which frankly, would have gotten me the Nobel thing!"--DJT RedWhiteBlueIsRacist 11 hrs ago #19
If Trump were president for the Vietnam War, we'd be eating noodles right now. Which ones? usonian 11 hrs ago #20
It was paywalled MustLoveBeagles 11 hrs ago #21
Oh God, he is so, so sick Grim Chieftain 11 hrs ago #23
Somewhere usually between a few seconds, and ten minutes upon waking up; and I realize that.... electric_blue68 3 hrs ago #78
he fled the us to AVOID THE DRAFT!!!! AllaN01Bear 11 hrs ago #24
He had the opportunity... kentuck 11 hrs ago #26
If only he hadn't had bone spurs! nt Trueblue Texan 11 hrs ago #27
Mr. B says instead of Rambo tRump would be Scambo. joanbarnes 11 hrs ago #29
Scambo - Carcará - Musica no Parque 2016 (Brasil) Celerity 10 hrs ago #32
Says the guy with a yellow streak up his back a mile long. llmart 10 hrs ago #30
Sure, dude. Sure you would have. mwmisses4289 10 hrs ago #31
Armchair warrior NHvet 10 hrs ago #33
Who Cares What Trump Says? MissouriDem47 10 hrs ago #34
Spouting the usual grandiose bullshit BeneteauBum 10 hrs ago #35
He doesn't even know how to succeed at a business he didn't inherit that already had people successfully running it ChicagoTeamster 10 hrs ago #38
Bone Spurs is Irony Deficient !!! n/t aggiesal 10 hrs ago #39
Dien Bien Phu-ck you Trump! Bo Zarts 10 hrs ago #40
Very clever! 3catwoman3 9 hrs ago #59
Madmen Nixon and Dulles wanted to Nuke North Vietnam. Kid Berwyn 8 hrs ago #68
Fallacy of the Untestable Hypothesis. Rump does this ALL THE TIME. Captain Zero 10 hrs ago #41
If he really thought he could have won the war Grim Chieftain 10 hrs ago #45
The day I never hear the vomitous spew UpInArms 10 hrs ago #46
The image LPBBEAR 10 hrs ago #48
Yes, he did such a great job at getting us out of Afghanistan as he promised. thesquanderer 10 hrs ago #50
This is the same guy who said if he were at a school shooting, MIButterfly 10 hrs ago #51
Too fucking bad he didn't show up for the party. Gawd but I loathe that piece of shit. marble falls 10 hrs ago #52
Trump needs to focus on the war he already started... sop 10 hrs ago #53
+1 dalton99a 9 hrs ago #58
Why don't people call him on this JokeHer 10 hrs ago #54
Another day, another egotistical, unprovable statement. maxsolomon 9 hrs ago #55
And we will never know if he could or not. That's Klarkashton 9 hrs ago #56
"Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound!" twodogsbarking 9 hrs ago #60
+1. "Patel, you must investigate ASAP" dalton99a 9 hrs ago #63
Another bullshit boast by TOFU Don. 3catwoman3 9 hrs ago #61
Fucker paid someone to take a college entrance exam malaise 9 hrs ago #62
His mental illness continues to worsen. City Lights 8 hrs ago #67
Yup, but, those damn bone spurs were murder. republianmushroom 7 hrs ago #70
Someone tell Dear Leader that bone spurs are easily fixed. Brain spurs, of which he is also victim, not so much. Vinca 7 hrs ago #71
I guess T**mp is still embarrassed about this: Drum 7 hrs ago #72
Well, he had his chance to demonstrate that over fifty years ago struggle4progress 6 hrs ago #73
He said this too malaise 4 hrs ago #76
+1 dalton99a 3 hrs ago #82
ARMCHAIR RAMBO no_hypocrisy 3 hrs ago #79
STFU, Ignorant Putz! electric_blue68 3 hrs ago #80
Woulda', coulda', shoulda' Totally Tunsie 3 hrs ago #81
Sure Jan. ornotna 2 hrs ago #83

electric_blue68

(27,010 posts)
74. Oh..... THAT, too.
Tue Apr 21, 2026, 07:05 PM
4 hrs ago
Oh...where *is* the Timeline for Mdme President Harris!

I beg The Universe for the gazillionth time.
:whimper:

Doodley

(11,992 posts)
2. Dunning Kruger effect. When you are a narcissistic simpleton, everything looks so simple and has no complications.
Tue Apr 21, 2026, 10:39 AM
12 hrs ago

Redleg

(6,981 posts)
69. I call him the Dunning-Kruger President and his remaining supporters Dunning-Kruger voters.
Tue Apr 21, 2026, 03:01 PM
8 hrs ago

Trump hasn't shown he can handle the current conflict with Iran, much less anything else.

Rebl2

(17,846 posts)
5. BS
Tue Apr 21, 2026, 10:42 AM
12 hrs ago

as usual. He was such a chicken sh.. his daddy got him out of going into the military. I wonder if he would have been thrown out of the military even if he had been drafted.

lastlib

(28,409 posts)
42. (They'd still frag him.....
Tue Apr 21, 2026, 12:48 PM
10 hrs ago

even if not in a combat zone--"training exercise accident".......)

CTyankee

(68,302 posts)
10. WHAT! I wasted all that time protesting the Vietnam War and coulda just made it go away????
Tue Apr 21, 2026, 10:48 AM
12 hrs ago

MineralMan

(151,430 posts)
11. The Moron-in-Chief would have been in his early 20s
Tue Apr 21, 2026, 10:48 AM
12 hrs ago

during the Vietnam War. He wouldn't have done shit. He did manage to avoid military service at that time, though. Clever, isn't he.

I didn't want to go to Vietnam either. I'm one year older than Drumph. So, I enlisted in the USAF and did something else while serving. I didn't avoid military service like Trump did, though. Nope.

Trump was a true draft-dodger, pure and simple.

Emile

(42,675 posts)
12. Myself being a Vietnam vet, I would punch
Tue Apr 21, 2026, 10:52 AM
12 hrs ago

that SOB in the face if he were anywhere near me.

Moostache

(11,232 posts)
37. You show remarkable self-restraint...
Tue Apr 21, 2026, 12:43 PM
10 hrs ago

If he were ever within my grasp, I would rip his throat out and beat him with it. I hold him personally responsible for the botched response to COVID-19 that forced my mother to die in a hospital without family at her side, a wound that was re-opened this year when my father passed and I WAS able to be with him to the end. Trump stole something sacred and holy from me and my family and on top of everything else he has done, said and stolen I think being beaten to death with his own throat is getting off easy anyway.

BidenRocks

(3,385 posts)
47. The proper Marine response was,
Tue Apr 21, 2026, 12:56 PM
10 hrs ago

I'm gonna rip your head off and shit down your neck! Oorah!
Marines aren't subtle!
Enlisted 2/73. Fuck chump!

electric_blue68

(27,010 posts)
75. Having not heard about your tragedy- How Horrific for her, you and all whom cared about her!
Tue Apr 21, 2026, 07:12 PM
4 hrs ago

And now re-exasperated!

My condolences on your father's passing.

Mysterian

(6,570 posts)
13. A repulsive, cowardly braggart
Tue Apr 21, 2026, 10:53 AM
12 hrs ago

People chose this degenerate to lead their country. Mind boggling.

RedWhiteBlueIsRacist

(2,105 posts)
19. "And the Trojan Ten Year war in two weeks, which frankly, would have gotten me the Nobel thing!"--DJT
Tue Apr 21, 2026, 11:24 AM
11 hrs ago

usonian

(25,924 posts)
20. If Trump were president for the Vietnam War, we'd be eating noodles right now. Which ones?
Tue Apr 21, 2026, 11:26 AM
11 hrs ago


Real, not AI.

Grim Chieftain

(1,886 posts)
23. Oh God, he is so, so sick
Tue Apr 21, 2026, 11:59 AM
11 hrs ago

Delusions of grandeur, massive ego, out of touch with reality. Someone drop a net over him and drag him out of the White House. Every day it's a new OMGWTH moment.

Please, please make this idiot go away.

electric_blue68

(27,010 posts)
78. Somewhere usually between a few seconds, and ten minutes upon waking up; and I realize that....
Tue Apr 21, 2026, 07:20 PM
3 hrs ago

...in my big, blue NYC that there's no cheering, car honking etc, going on....

I am soooo disappointed yet again!

Celerity

(54,685 posts)
32. Scambo - Carcará - Musica no Parque 2016 (Brasil)
Tue Apr 21, 2026, 12:32 PM
10 hrs ago

Label: Not On Label (Scambo Self-released) – none
Format: CD, Album, Stereo
Country: Brasil
Genre: Rock, Reggae, Latin, Pop
Style: Pop Rock, Reggae, Reggae-Pop, MPB

NHvet

(306 posts)
33. Armchair warrior
Tue Apr 21, 2026, 12:38 PM
10 hrs ago

Cadet bone spurs was too busy trying not to catch VD and syphilis during the Vietnam war to worry about anything else.

MissouriDem47

(427 posts)
34. Who Cares What Trump Says?
Tue Apr 21, 2026, 12:39 PM
10 hrs ago

Especially those of us whose lives were affected by the Viet Nam War?
He was nothing but a lying draft dodger then and he's nothing but a liar now.

BeneteauBum

(615 posts)
35. Spouting the usual grandiose bullshit
Tue Apr 21, 2026, 12:39 PM
10 hrs ago

It continues to mean nothing except the orange creature is delusional.

Peace ☮️

ChicagoTeamster

(1,087 posts)
38. He doesn't even know how to succeed at a business he didn't inherit that already had people successfully running it
Tue Apr 21, 2026, 12:44 PM
10 hrs ago

3catwoman3

(29,600 posts)
59. Very clever!
Tue Apr 21, 2026, 01:23 PM
9 hrs ago

During a 2 week trip in Scotland 20 years ago, we noticed very liberal use of “the F word” which is pronounced as “fook” with the vowels sound like those in hookah.”

Diem Bien Phu-ck is perfect.

Kid Berwyn

(24,726 posts)
68. Madmen Nixon and Dulles wanted to Nuke North Vietnam.
Tue Apr 21, 2026, 02:39 PM
8 hrs ago

It’s been 70 years since the French surrender at Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam. The Republicans in Washington did all they could to keep the war going, sending France all the weapons and ammo they could. But it wasn’t enough, so VP Richard Nixon and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles proposed Operation VULTURE.



“We might give them a few.”

Did the US offer to drop atom bombs at Dien Bien Phu?


By Fredrik Logevall
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists | February 21, 2016

Excerpt…

Turning to Dulles, the foreign minister noted the presence of American ships in the Gulf of Tonkin and Dulles’s repeated public statements that the United States would not tolerate the expansion of communism. If Washington so desired it could now reconcile those twin realities by assisting her ally at Dien Bien Phu. “He merely looked glum,” Bidault later remembered of the American’s reaction, “and did not even promise to repeat my request to Washington.”

But Dulles did offer a response, the nature of which has been shrouded in controversy for more than half a century. According to Bidault, the American took him aside during an intermission and asked him whether atomic bombs could be effective at Dien Bien Phu. If so, Dulles allegedly went on, his government could provide two such bombs to France. Bidault said he turned down the suggestion flat, on the grounds that the bombs would destroy the garrison as well as the Viet Minh, while dropping them farther away, on supply lines, would risk war with China. When informed a few months later of Bidault’s claim, Dulles said he could not recall making such an offer and insisted there must have been a misunderstanding.

Given Bidault’s visible exhaustion on the day in question, and his muddled speechmaking, and given the lack of any British or American confirmation of the claim, it is reasonable to suppose Dulles had it right: No offer was made. On the other hand, Bidault’s version is supported by senior French official Jean Chauvel in his memoirs, and by French general Paul Ely in his diary, which was kept on a daily basis. Ely, a key player on Indochina strategy in these months, wrote that he was of two minds about “the offer of two atom bombs. The psychological impact would be tremendous, but the [military] effectiveness would was uncertain, and it carries the risk of generalized warfare.”

Moreover, Bidault’s contention that Washington might offer atom bombs to his government had an inherent plausibility. In December 1953, when Western leaders held talks in Bermuda, Eisenhower alarmed the British and French delegations by referring casually to the atomic bomb as just another weapon in the West’s arsenal, one that might be used if the Chinese under Mao Zedong violated the terms of the recently-concluded truce in the Korean War. In February 1954, the president told Congressional leaders that in the event of war with China the United States would “go all the way,” with no limitations on targets hit or weapons used.

You could drop the Bomb, clean those commies out, and the band could play the Marseillaise. At several points in the weeks thereafter, US strategists considered the possible use of the Bomb, and according to one interpretation Operation Vulture always had, from its inception, an atomic dimension. In early April, a study group in the Pentagon examined the possibility of using atomic weapons at Dien Bien Phu and concluded that three tactical A-bombs, properly employed, would be sufficient to obliterate the Viet Minh effort there. Admiral Arthur Radford used this finding to suggest the use of the A-bomb to the National Security Council on April 7. According to Air Force Chief of Staff Nathan Twining, “You could take all day to drop a bomb, make sure you put it in the right place…and clean those Commies out of there and the band could play the Marseillaise and the French could come marching out…in great shape.”

Continues…

https://thebulletin.org/2016/02/we-might-give-them-a-few-did-the-us-offer-to-drop-atom-bombs-at-dien-bien-phu/

These warmonger greedheads from history have passed the torch to the warmonger greedheads of today. Why I bring it up: We the People didn’t get to vote on it, nor our representatives in Congress, the decision was made without our input, in secret.

Captain Zero

(8,936 posts)
41. Fallacy of the Untestable Hypothesis. Rump does this ALL THE TIME.
Tue Apr 21, 2026, 12:48 PM
10 hrs ago

Not sure he could have won that war, since by his own previous statements, he was battling bone spurs and venereal disease, so he was pretty busy.

He uses UNTESTABLE HYPOTHESIS CONSTANTLY.

Grim Chieftain

(1,886 posts)
45. If he really thought he could have won the war
Tue Apr 21, 2026, 12:52 PM
10 hrs ago

He should have strapped on the boots and led the charge.

Cowardly blow hard. I despise him more each and every day

UpInArms

(55,097 posts)
46. The day I never hear the vomitous spew
Tue Apr 21, 2026, 12:52 PM
10 hrs ago

that comes from the anus mouth, will be a grand day.

LPBBEAR

(667 posts)
48. The image
Tue Apr 21, 2026, 01:00 PM
10 hrs ago

immediately comes to mind of a fat sweaty Trump dressed like Rambo, golf caddy in tow carrying his golf clubs while he swings a 9 Iron at the Viet Cong.......

Nah, he would have bungled that war worse than Nixon did the first time around.

Please remove this insane fuck before he starts WW3.

thesquanderer

(13,056 posts)
50. Yes, he did such a great job at getting us out of Afghanistan as he promised.
Tue Apr 21, 2026, 01:04 PM
10 hrs ago

He left the actual mess of an endgame to Biden.

MIButterfly

(2,903 posts)
51. This is the same guy who said if he were at a school shooting,
Tue Apr 21, 2026, 01:10 PM
10 hrs ago

he would run in unarmed and capture the shooter all by himself. I didn't believe him then and I don't believe him now. In fact, I never believe anything that comes out of his lying mouth and I can't believe anybody on the face of this earth still does.

maxsolomon

(38,929 posts)
55. Another day, another egotistical, unprovable statement.
Tue Apr 21, 2026, 01:19 PM
9 hrs ago

Let's all pay attention to it and not his utter malevolent incompetence.

twodogsbarking

(19,015 posts)
60. "Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound!"
Tue Apr 21, 2026, 01:26 PM
9 hrs ago

He's Super Trump.

3catwoman3

(29,600 posts)
61. Another bullshit boast by TOFU Don.
Tue Apr 21, 2026, 01:27 PM
9 hrs ago

He’s so full of shit that maybe it’s not bronzer making his fugly face brown.

The tone-deaf 5 times draft dodger would be well advised to keep his trap shut about Viet Nam.

malaise

(296,946 posts)
62. Fucker paid someone to take a college entrance exam
Tue Apr 21, 2026, 01:30 PM
9 hrs ago

Fucker still hides his high school and college records
Fucker has been bankrupt too many times to count.
But he is the greatest of all time at everything.
That said - he is the greatest at one thing - the only convicted felon ever to occupy the WH.
That is all 😀

City Lights

(25,932 posts)
67. His mental illness continues to worsen.
Tue Apr 21, 2026, 02:27 PM
8 hrs ago

It's a pity no one cares enough about him to do something about it.

Vinca

(54,153 posts)
71. Someone tell Dear Leader that bone spurs are easily fixed. Brain spurs, of which he is also victim, not so much.
Tue Apr 21, 2026, 03:54 PM
7 hrs ago

malaise

(296,946 posts)
76. He said this too
Tue Apr 21, 2026, 07:15 PM
4 hrs ago

He claimed he could end the Russia-Ukraine war within 24 hours if elected.

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