You can always count on Don Trump Jr. to try and make a joke about a horrific situation. As the US prepares to fully withdraw its troops from Afghanistan and end its airlifting of refugees out of Kabul airport, thousands are still trying to escape the country.
The Biden administration has made it clear it wants to stick to its original timetable of withdrawing troops by August 31, despite criticism from some of it abandoning the country and its citizens.
The Taliban, which has now taken control of Kabul, said yesterday that the US must stick to this goal and that if troops remain any longer, it would be in “violation” of previous agreements.
Donald Trump Jr. has been repeatedly criticizing’s Biden’s handling of the Afghanistan withdrawal (despite it being his father who initially pledged to withdraw all troops before the end of 2020), particularly in the wake of desperate scenes from Kabul airport.
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In his latest tweet, Jr. again pushed the message that Biden and the military’s top brass are more concerned with being “woke.”
“Am hearing that Team Biden is finally planning on playing hardball with the Taliban. Reliable sources tell me that Biden & our woke Generals will DEMAND that the Taliban rename themselves the LGBTaliban+ to be more inclusive & diverse, or else no more American weapons for them!”
Am hearing that Team Biden is finally planning on playing hardball with the Taliban.
Reliable sources tell me that Biden & our woke Generals will DEMAND that the Taliban rename themselves the LGBTaliban+ to be more inclusive & diverse, or else no more American weapons for them!
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) August 24, 2021
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Many were unimpressed.
Even for Don Jr. this is embarrassing.
— Evan (@daviddunn177) August 24, 2021
There’s really enough horror going on that you don’t have to resort to this. It’s not even funny
— affording grace ♥ (@cotorra5362) August 24, 2021
I think the former president has taken over Donald Jr’s account
— Craig Whyte legend 🏴🇮🇪 (@StevenHarkin2) August 24, 2021
Even those who appear to perhaps be on the right of the political spectrum thought Jr’s tweet was a bit much.
I get it, but I can’t even laugh at this one man… those people over there are abandoned. It’s a more awful Situation for them than can be imagined…. heartbreaking
— pd (@Wrestling_PDK) August 24, 2021
At some point you and your group should start to unite the country and act professional. If you did that 45 would still be President. Let’s get our shit together. You can be anti 46 in a professional way that get you more followers and votes.
— jesaylor23 (@jesaylor231) August 24, 2021
Many were keen to point out former President Donald Trump’s role in negotiating with the Taliban over the US withdrawal.
Say what?👇 https://t.co/lCPJvDeeyf
— Former Republican (@formerr35535412) August 25, 2021
Although Trump Jr. probably thinks his comments on the situation are hilarious, they make light of a complex, humanitarian crisis. The situation facing many in Afghanistan with the Taliban in power is grim. This is particularly so for women and girls, and even more so for anyone suspected of being LGBTQ.
Under sharia law, gay people can be stoned to death or thrown from a high building. Two gay Afghans spoke this week to the i news about the plight facing people within the country: “If the Taliban finds out someone is gay, believe me, they will just shoot him on the spot,” said one, named Aziz.
Although some countries have asked Biden to re-think his August 31 deadline, the President yesterday said he wanted to stick to it, but he has asked the Pentagon and the state department for “contingency plans to adjust the timetable should that become necessary”.
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Prax07
Can’t we Please round up the trumps and send Them over as a gift to the Taliban? Just put some poop on a couple of sticks and his fanbase would never know any of them were gone.
Mack
Hell, I’ll chip in some money to help with that.
ted
I’ll chip in too
PhillyProud
Yeah, I’d chip in for that. Strap an GoPro to them so we can watch.
Cam
Republicans seem to hate America and would take glee in America failing. Don Jr. exemplifies this.
Just look at them on the state level. California, since the democrats won a supermajority and changed the financil structure has gone from running massive deficits to running multi billion dollar surpluses, culminating in nearly a $40 billion dollar surplus last year.
Other Democrat run states economies are also skyrocketing. But do Republicans look at that and say “Hmmm, we implemented our policies in states like Kansas and Oklahoma and they went broke, the Democrats are implementing different polices and their states are rich”?
No, they just lie about states like California and keep implementing the policies they know will fail because it lines their pockets.
Republicans seem to hate America.
Kangol2
I just read in Bloomberg today (“Vaccinated Democratic Counties Are Leading the Economic Recovery,” by Joshua Green) that Biden-voting, Democratic-leaning, highly vaccinated counties in the US are leading in job growth and the economic recovery. Bloomberg is anything but a liberal news outlet.
A quote: “Last year, after Biden defeated Trump, Muro looked again and found that the economic output divide has grown even more pronounced. *The 520 counties Biden won account for fully 71% of U.S. gross domestic product, while the 2,564 that Trump carried produced just 29%. In other words, America’s economic engine is bluer than ever.*”
Of course the GOP hates this. Don the Con not only let the US in a shambles, but his Afghanistan policy is proving to be an utter disaster. No surprise there!
jcool
trump and junior are not republicans. that is the mistake everyone keeps making. they are trumps. they only care about trumps. not republicans. not americans. only trumps, and barely that, trump would throw all of his children under the bus. anyone else’s failure, in trumps’ eyes, is a victory for him.
UlfRaynor
Who are you trying to kid here, the Trumps personify what it means to be republican as evidenced by their entire parties political behavior and voting record to date.
Cam
Nice try.
The entire platform for the GOP is “We support Trump”. Trump is the epitome of the Republican Party.
jcool
@UlfRaynor
i look at it the other way around. the republican party now personifies the trump vision. because he’s good at fundraising. you can’t be a professional grifter all of your life without learning a few tricks.
UlfRaynor
@jcool- Um, you just made my point. Don’t believe what people say about themselves, believe what they show you by their actions and the Trumps couldn’t possibly be any more republican.
Kangol2
Don the Con Drumpf and his spawn ARE the GOP. Don the Con is the most far-right Republicant president this country has ever had, and one of the most grossly incompetent, leaving the US and globe in a shambles when he finally was rousted from office after attempting his treasonous coup. He makes Reagan look like a liberal, which is saying something.
Derek Northcutt
Can you imagine matching wits with little Don? My 5-year old nephew is up for the challenge.
keith 2512
Ummm Who initially imposed the Aug 31 deadline in the first place. Might that have been the XPOTUS?????????
GayEGO
Another stupid Trump Jr comment. It will be great when they are convicted and jailed for their cheats and crimes!
Fahd
After 20 years in Afghanistan, the U.S. and allies need to stop. The Afghan army had 300,000 well-equipped soldiers who turned out to be unwilling to defend their own government against 75,000 undersupplied rag tag Taliban fighters.
Enough wasting of American (NATO) soldiers lives. Absolutely stop.
If Don Jr. had any brains (he doesn’t), he’d realize that hard-pressed historians looking for any positive in his father’s presidency will mention that he didn’t start any new war or new endless military intervention. [Thank God he choked on Iran.]
After 20 years, the West should realize that — at least in Afghanistan — they cannot save every Afghani woman or gay person from the misery of life under a medieval Islamic theocracy.
There’s always diplomacy.
Kangol2
The US should never have invaded Afghanistan, and every president in office, from W Bush, who launched the war and kept making mistake after mistake for 8 years (and did even worse in Iraq) to Obama to Don the Con to Biden has made mistakes there. Obama at least killed Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind 9/11, who was hiding in Pakistan, remember? That said, Don the Con negotiated the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan last year in Doha. He bragged about his “peace plan” with the Taliban, and also helped get 5,000 Taliban fighters released from jail, including the person who is now the putative new leader. On top of this, Don the Con originally wanted to pull out last December, and set his deadline for May 2021. Again and again, he screwed up, so his son should shut his trap about this and most of the other foreign policy debacles his incompetent treasonous father was involved in.
radiooutmike
It only took us 20 years to learn what the Soviets did in 10 years.
In order to have some semblance of a first world-type government with rights for all Afghani citizens, we would have to stay there until the end of eternity. The Taliban are willing to die for their beliefs. We’re not.
It’s not that we are incapable of dying for our beliefs; but we don’t need to, at least not until a full-scale foreign invasion happens of the United States or another Civil War here.