Trump Says His Prayers Are With Navy Sailors After Initial Bungled Response

US President Donald Trump seen as he attends Bastille Day Military Parade, Place de la Concorde, in Paris on July 14, 2017. Photo by Ammar Abd Rabbo/Sipa USA(Sipa via AP Images)
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President Donald Trump on Sunday night published a tweet saying that his thoughts and prayers are with U.S. Navy sailors after he bungled his response to reporters’ shouted questions about the collision of a Navy destroyer that left sailors injured and missing.

Ten sailors are missing after a Navy destroyer, the USS John McCain, collided with an oil tanker on Sunday.

When Trump arrived back in the Washington, D.C. area Sunday night, reporters shouted questions to him about the incident with the USS John McCain. It’s not clear what the President heard over the sound of Marine One.

“That’s too bad,” Trump replied to the reporters, appearing unaware of the collision.

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  1. Avatar for zsak zsak says:

    He’s not kept up to date on these things because he doesn’t care. He only wants good news about himself.

  2. Perhaps if staff put this in his ‘good news’ folder (or whatever it is called) and somehow dressed it up for him, he’d have known. He really is despicable and unfit–
    " that’s too bad"? What could he have been responding to in that instance even if they weren’t US personnel? I wonder if he just heard the John McCain part of ‘USS John McCain’ and threw out the casual " that’s too bad"?

    Until I read the story, TPM’s headline had me worried that trump had made yet another bungled response. The headline only mentions “prayers”. We all know you can’t have ‘prayers’ without the corresponding ‘thoughts’.

    ETA: I changed “soldiers” to personnel - never sure how to refer to sailors. Is soldiers acceptable?

  3. I assume the US Navy is investigating a Russian hack. Otherwise the chances of two hi-tech Navy ships not electronically seeing two huge container/oil ships in the span of a few months is minuscule.

    Are they still running Kaspersky software?

  4. Too coherent he didn’t write that

  5. Avatar for litho litho says:

    There’s our Nazi-in-Chief, staying right up to the minute with the important events under his command…

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