Donald Trump on Friday downplayed the toll on American sailors enduring nearly nine months at sea on the USS Abraham Lincoln as concerns escalated about mental health and supply issues aboard the aircraft carrier supporting U.S. operations against Iran.

In a brief exchange with reporters before flying to New York for an event to highlight falling violent crime rates across the U.S., Trump refuted that family members have raised concerns about the deployment’s length and even said that the deployment — which includes a record-setting uninterrupted time at sea of more than 240 days — is “not nearly long enough.”

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    How much you wanna bet the majority of personnel on that aircraft carrier would still happily vote for trump’s successor (Vance? Trump again, illegally? A festering maggotty sack of feces? Anyone with an [R] next to their name?) in 2028?

    MAGA people never learn.

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    I guarantee someone onboard said something trump didn’t like, so this is their “punishment”.

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    One of the most basic lessons of Christianity is the need to ask for forgiveness. Trump once held up a bible for a photo op, we keep hearing rumblings of Christian Nationalism apparently from this current administration, and Trump now declares, “I’ll never apologize.” That’s about as anti-Christian as a message can be.

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        It won’t even be surprising to his rabit Christofascist base. They already believe their “holier than thou” schtick puts them above apologizing.

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    Every single one of them that voted for Trump or didn’t vote, got what they deserve. They voted for the leopard eating faces, and now the leopard is on them.
    The ones that voted against Trump are the only ones I can really feel sorry for.
    Fuck Americans that failed to vote against Trump.

    Trump is a malignant narcissist, and that was very clear before the election, it was also clear before he was elected the first time.
    If you want a malignant narcissist as leader of your country, you are not right in the head.

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    Was anyone expecting him to? Has he ever apologized for anything in his 80 years on this planet?