I Like People Who Weren’t Captured

“He’s not a war hero. He’s a hero because he was captured? I like people who weren’t captured.”

For me, the Trumpian descent into the surreal began with this statement. I first became aware of Donald Trump as a presidential candidate during the summer of 2015 when I saw this comment reported on the news.

This single statement, uttered solely to denigrate John McCain, who spent more than five years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, embodies so much about the character of Donald Trump and why he is unfit for office.

It revealed that

• He has the mind of child because that is the logic of a five-year-old. Donald Trump is an exceptionally stupid person.
• He has no respect for those that sacrifice because he has never sacrificed anything for anyone. Donald Trump believes that sacrifice is for suckers and losers.
• He is threatened by people of character because he has none. Whenever Donald Trump is compared to anyone of substance, he comes out looking small. He is well aware of this, and it brings out all of his childish insecurities.

Uttered just one month after announcing that he was seeking the Republican nomination for president, this entirely gratuitous derogatory remark about John McCain, shamelessly targeted at his sacrifice during a time of war, was merely a prelude to years of stupid, ignorant, immature, absurd and hateful remarks that would follow.