The Trump Administration: The Clusterfuck Continues (Part 2)

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@Monty

Finally, we have more reactions to the bigot-in-chief’s dysadministration disrespecting an actual war hero.

Black community leaders on Friday, Aug. 21, slammed U.S. Navy officials over their reported move to name an upcoming aircraft carrier after President Donald Trump instead of WWII hero Doris Miller.

Miller was a Black enlisted soldier in the U.S. Navy. During the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 he helped carry wounded sailors to safety and manned an anti-aircraft gun to take down at least one Japanese plane despite not being trained on the weapon.

“This is a slap in the face to every war hero and to every service member who has worn the uniform,” Derrick Johnson, president of the NAACP, said in a statement posted to X about the reported name change. “It’s beyond comprehension for a president to want his own name on a Navy ship while our armed forces are living in deteriorating conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln.”

Supporters for decades have viewed his actions as deserving of the Medal of Honor and attribute his not receiving the honor to racism. Miller was instead awarded the Navy Cross medal.

The Navy since 2020 has been planning to honor Miller by naming the fourth vessel in the new Gerald R. Ford-class carriers after the Waco, Texas, native. But according to reporting by CNN and NBC News, the Navy is looking at changing the name of the vessel from the USS Doris Miller to potentially the USS Donald Trump. Miller died in a Japanese torpedo attack in 1943.

I posted this over in the thread about the USS Abraham Lincoln, but it fits here too:

USS Abraham Lincoln

Right, former presidents. Not the sitting president who has a huge conflict of interest in that all of the people making these decisions serve at his pleasure. So that is bad enough, but to steal the honor from a decorated Black Navy war hero who died in the service of his country is both unconscionable and disgusting. I’m sick to my stomach just thinking about it. So of course he is going to do it, or at least try to. But CVN-81 is not going to be commissioned until well after Trump leaves o…