Sen. Reuben Gallego Unloads On Trump And Hegseth And Shows Real Support For The Troops
The situation aboard the USS Lincoln has exposed Trump and Hegseth's lack of support for the troops and allowed Democrats like Sen. Reuben Gallego to step up and show what real support looks like.
America’s military personnel should never be treated the way that the sailors on the USS Abraham Lincoln are being treated. Stories about a lack of food, supplies, and a mental health crisis among the crew are being reported by family members on a nearly daily basis.
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The Trump administration has responded by denying a problem, even though the ship has been deployed for more than 200 days without returning to port.
The administration uses the troops for propaganda, but doesn’t seem to care about the human beings who are serving.
Sen. Reuben Gallego is a veteran who has been in war, and he spoke out about the situation on the USS Lincoln on ABC’s This Week.
Gallego said:
There’s a deep, deep, deep mistrust of this leadership. The secretary of defense is absolutely not qualified to be leading the Department of Defense. And certainly, the president has shown that he just doesn’t really care about the troops.
His lack of -- lackadaisical attitude about men and women and their deployments, you know, just kind of reflects what he actually thinks about them. He thinks about them more as toys and as ways to basically show off or show its strength, but not the fact that they truly, at the end of the day, are humans. They’re Americans. And they have families, and these things, these deployments, these wars have consequences.
Gallego also showed what it really means to support those who wear the uniform.
