President Donald Trump met Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado on Thursday, whose political party is widely believed to have beaten former President Nicolás Maduro in the 2024 election.
Not his first time. In Trump 1.0, he visited a wounded soldier in the hospital (back when he was trying to pretend to care), and he talked up the kid’s Purple Heart until the kid finally offered it to him, and Trump took it, saying “I always wanted one of these.” A POTUS convinced a wounded soldier to give up his Purple Heart like it was a trinket.
At the end of WW2, they manufactured millions of Purple Heart medals in anticipation of the invasion of Japan, which never happened, thankfully. So those millions of medals have been sitting in a warehouse, and every one handed out since then has come from that inventory. We’ve never had to make more, and hopefully never will.
If he wanted one, all he had to do was tell Hegseth, and one would have been formally delivered to his desk by a Marine in dress blues within 30 minutes.
But it was more fun to take it from some dumb rube. I bet he left it in the limo when he left.
Not his first time. In Trump 1.0, he visited a wounded soldier in the hospital (back when he was trying to pretend to care), and he talked up the kid’s Purple Heart until the kid finally offered it to him, and Trump took it, saying “I always wanted one of these.” A POTUS convinced a wounded soldier to give up his Purple Heart like it was a trinket.
At the end of WW2, they manufactured millions of Purple Heart medals in anticipation of the invasion of Japan, which never happened, thankfully. So those millions of medals have been sitting in a warehouse, and every one handed out since then has come from that inventory. We’ve never had to make more, and hopefully never will.
If he wanted one, all he had to do was tell Hegseth, and one would have been formally delivered to his desk by a Marine in dress blues within 30 minutes.
But it was more fun to take it from some dumb rube. I bet he left it in the limo when he left.