President Trump’s Standing Is Slipping with the Military, for Good Reason

President Trump’s Standing Is Slipping with the Military, for Good Reason

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/11/president-trumps-standing-is-slipping-with-the-military-for-good-reason/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202018-11-20&utm_term=NR5PM%20Actives

Excerpt: Is it a problem of style or substance when the president fails to visit Arlington National Cemetery? Is it a problem of style or substance when he allows weather to thwart his attendance at a ceremony in France honoring the immense American sacrifices in World War I? And what of failures so far to visit soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, not to mention his brazen (and wholly undeserved) insult of Admiral William McRaven, the architect of the Osama bin Laden raid, for failing to find bin Laden sooner? It just so happened it wasn’t McRaven’s job to find bin Laden. It was his job to oversee the mission to kill the world’s most-wanted terrorist, and McRaven performed that job magnificently. Last month — even before many of the incidents listed above — the Military Times released a poll indicating that President Trump’s standing with the military was declining: