D-Day vets honoured by chicken hawks—Trump and Estes

By SJ Otto

With all this talk of the bravery of those who fought on D-Day, there were at least two and maybe more Republicans who are all in favour of honouring those who fight our wars, but they never served in the armed forces themselves. Some of us call those people chicken-hawks.

Our President Donald Trump has never spent a single day on the military. Can we imagine Trump eating army food?! It would be funny if Trump weren’t so cowardly. Whoopi Goldberg comment on the View about him:

 “Thost Whoopi Goldberg didn't even want to talk about President Trump's visit to Normandy, indicating she was annoyed that someone like him would go there on the 75th anniversary of D-Day.

When co-host Joy Behar mentioned the visit, Goldberg said something that prompted the show to censor her comments. She explained that she didn't want to talk about the issue because "all those people who went and gave their lives — they didn't ask, they didn't have bone spurs," she said on Thursday.

"They went, people went to fight the ugly that was happening. They went and did it, that's all I'm going to say," she added.

"The View" has a history of criticizing Trump over his draft deferments, one of which came after a doctor diagnosed him with bone spurs. Behar knocked Trump over the issue when the panel was discussing his alleged decision to obscure the view of the USS John S. McCain during a visit to Japan.

She joked that if Trump were more like the late senator he might get his own ship, titled "USS bone spurs."

During Thursday's show, co-host Ana Navarro blasted Trump as "out of control" for insulting Americans while overseas. "He's been out of control," she said, before noting his attack on actress Bette Midler. Co-host Sunny Hostin also pointed to Trump's attack on former Vice President Joe Biden.

"He's like a mob guy and yet he broke the cardinal rule of being a mobster. You don't talk about the family outside of the family," Behar said of that attack in May.

Trump is not the only chicken-hawk to honour the vest that fought in World War II. Here at home, on KAKE TV, I saw Ron Estes at a local Wichita ceremony honouring those who fought at Normandy. Ron told KAKE TV that he felt the fighting effort needed to be done—but not with him. He stayed home.

That brings on this poem:

When the smell of danger is in the air,

You can bet Ron Estes isn’t there,

When heroes come to save the day,

That’s when Ron Estes runs away,

When the soldiers go off to war

The chicken-hawks stay way afar.

And now Brave Sir Robin: