US President, Donald John Trump, has apparently lost the goodwill of his Generals as vibes from within the military top brass is increasingly getting consistently uncomplimentary.
It is not clear if any of his Generals would take a bullet for the leader of the free world as Trump, continuously comes under piles of accusation of undermining the Constitution and the Rule of Law while tearing at the essence of the Union.
In a country whose history includes the assassination of four Presidents and attempts on the lives of six, the 45thPresident is having his Generals openly call him a rogue; if even in other languages.
“We have seen the assaults on our institutions: on the intelligence and law enforcement community, the State Department and the press…. seen our leaders stand beside despots and strongmen….seen us abandon our allies and have heard the shouts of betrayal from the battlefield…. one retired four-star general… shouted, ‘I don’t like the Democrats, but Trump is destroying the Republic!’… If our promises are meaningless, how will our allies ever trust us?” complained Admiral William McRaven — Former Commander of U. S. Special Operations Command in an October 17th 2019 comment
General James Mattis Retired U. S. Marine Corps General / Secretary of Defense for President Trump is on record to have said, ““Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people — does not even pretend to try. Instead he tries to divide us. We are witnessing the consequences of three years of this deliberate effort…. The Nazi slogan for destroying us…was ‘Divide and Conquer’. Our American answer [was] In ‘Union there is Strength’…. We must reject and hold accountable those in office who would make a mockery of our Constitution.”
On June 1, 2020, Former Commander of U.S. Forces in Afghanistan, Lt. General John Allen said; ““June 1, 2020. Remember the date. It may well signal the beginning of the end of the American experiment”
“I never believed that the Constitution was under threat until recently…. The slide of the United States into illiberalism may well have begun on June 1, 2020. Remember the date. It may well signal the beginning of the end of the American experiment…. There is no precedent in modern U.S. history for a president to wield federal troops in a state or municipality over the objections of the respective governor.”
According to General Michael Hayden, Retired Air Force four-star general, Former Director of the National Security Agency, and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency; “It is imperative that we stop Trump’s assault on our nation’s values and institutions and reinstate the moral foundations of our democracy.”
His charge was from a letter signed by 73 former national security officials who served President Reagan, Bush senior, Bush junior, Trump himself, or as Republican Members of Congress.
On August 19th, 2020 General Barry McCaffrey, Retired U.S. Army General, who was awarded 3 Purple Heart Medals for wounds received in combat, 2 Distinguished Service Crosses, and 2 Silver Stars for valor said of Trump; “We are dealing with a lawless President who has no allegiance to our constitution or values. Trump is igniting a fire of violence. He is sowing division.
“Trump is involved in massive and constant abuse of power. His every instinct is extortionist. How can Republican Senators abide by his thuggish behavior. We have never encountered such a terrible man in the Presidency.”
For General John Kelly, Retired U.S. Marine Corps General who served as President Trump’s Chief of Staff, the President is now ruling like a king rather than governing like a servant of the Republic.“I think an awful big concern is that the partisanship has gotten out of hand. The tribal thing has gotten out of hand. We don’t look at each other as fellow Americans … we look at each other as opponents. We don’t talk to each other. We yell at each other…. The separation of powers is very, very, very important. No president ever is a dictator or a king.”“I think we need to look harder at who we elect. I think we should look at people that are running for office and put them through the filter: What is their character like? What are their ethics?”
Admiral James Stavridis, Retired U. S. Navy admiral / Former supreme allied commander of NATO has also put on record that, “this is really a collision between order and rule of law and increasing anarchy…. you start to feel that needle moving from The Federalist Papers toward the island in the Lord of the Flies.”
Another big weight, General Colin Powell, a Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Secretary of State, decries Trumps abuse of the Constitution and people; “We have a Constitution. And we have to follow that Constitution. And the President has drifted away from it…. The first thing that troubled me is the whole birthers movement…. And then I was deeply troubled by the way in which he was going around insulting everybody, insulting Gold Star mothers, insulting John McCain, insulting immigrants…. that is dangerous for our democracy. It is dangerous for our country….““This is not the way the system is supposed to work…. the President…needs to understand the Constitution, understand the restraints on him and his authority, and talk openly with his military authorities about what is the right thing to do, and not fire them when he doesn’t get the answer he likes.”