That is certainly plausible (and the typical contempt that enlisted have for the lack of competence of high ranking officers is often not misplaced) but hobbling the already underfunded and understaffed Veterans Administration is not going to win friends and influence people even among Trump-loving vets. Even Reagan was smart enough not to fuck with veterans’ benefits, and despite a pledge to reduce government size and budget (which he ultimately did not) he actually elevated the Veterans Administration to a Cabinet-level department as a means of assuring Vietnam War vets who were suffering from chronic illness that they would not be abandoned.
Trump and these people he is surrounding himself with aren’t as smart as Reagan, who whatever else you think about him, was not our most intellectually distinguished presidents. But he’s still a fucking MacArthur Genius in comparison to Trump, who has not thought this through or learned any lesson from any history class that he likely snooze through because it wasn’t about him. Or more succinctly, in the cruder parlance of our times, “Fuck around and find out.”
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