The difference between Trump and Obama

It happened in seconds--President Trump was about to board Marine One helicopter when the wind blew off the hat of the Lance Corporal standing guard.

Trump's immediate response was to grab the Marine's hat, which he did, and placed it back on the Lance Corporal's head and patted him on the arm.

The hat blew off again and was retrieved by an officer who placed it back on the Marine's head as the President climbed aboard.

It isn't a big thing for someone to do that and help another person out. But it's bigger than it seems. The very human response Trump showed reveals his character. With all the fame and fortune, Trump is still, in many ways, a 'regular guy'. And he's a guy who obviously loves the military.

Compare that to former failed President Obama asking a Marine to hold an umbrella for him and the President of Turkey (Obama called him the "Prime Minister," but CNN didn't report that mistake).

Compare Trump to Obama who can't even properly pronounce "Navy corpsman."

It's no surprise Trump beat the screaming liberal banshee for the presidency.


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Former Marine fired for honoring the flag

If you honor the American flag, the chances are that you will have more legal problems than if you burn it.

Allen Thornwell, 29, a former United States Marine took it upon himself to lower the flag to half mast on Memorial Day in honor of the American war dead. He particularly wanted to honor his best friend and former Marine who, he said killed himself when he returned to the U.S. after combat, the Charlotte Observer reported.

Flag protocol says that the flag should be lowered to half-staff that day up until noon, at which time it is to be flown full-staff. 

The paper said that Thornwell was fired Tuesday from his job at Time Warner Cable, who said that they were disturbed by what was termed as "passion for the flag and (his) political affiliation."

How horrible--he must be a black conservative.

Murphy Archibald, Thornwell's attorney and Vietnam veteran himself, said that his client should have never been fired. "It's disgraceful. He didn't do anything wrong. He's a veteran working on Memorial Day who corrected what he thought was a disrespectful flying of the American flag . . . I would have taken it down myself."

It may not have necessarily been "disgraceful," but it certainly was at least very ignorant of Time Warner.

A Time Warner spokesman confirmed Thornwell's firing saying the former Marine "was no longer under contract" with the company, but refused to go into detail.

I suspect the Time Warner spokesman is not a military veteran, doesn't see anything wrong with the Trump riots where the American flag is burned and the Mexican flag is waved proudly.

And I honestly have nothing against Mexico--it's a "patriotic thing" I suffer from--and Time Warner should be ashamed.


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