I Resigned From The Military Because Of Trump

[jotathought]

Just stating the fact that Jan 6 will disgrace Trump, the Republican Party, and all their MAGA supporters for all eternity.

Anyone who still worships Trump after that disgraceful day is a vile human being.

Strange — for something that ‘ended Trump,’ he seems to be doing just fine while you’re still crying about it. Whaaaaaaaaa .. go cry me a river ... whaaaaaaaaaaa

 

[Mack The Finger]

In a Washington Post Op-Ed today, Col Doug Krugman explains why he recently retired from the Marine Corps after 24 years.

You're a hack !

24 years and he retired because of OMB...why he really showed him.

That was a real leadership moment !

On Sept. 30, at an unprecedented gathering of senior military leadership, President Donald Trump said, “If you don’t like what I’m saying, you can leave the room — of course, there goes your rank, there goes your future.” I wasn’t invited to be in the room that day, and I had decided months earlier that I had to leave.

In other words...the good COL didn't hear Orange Man Bad actually say it.

He is a real leader...I'd follow him to hell if he was my commander !

That was like a movie moment...if true ! Just like your post !

 

[struth]

Trump is not only ******* things up royally domestically, but overseas as well.

We're going to be paying for this colossal mistake for decades to come.

You and Hamas think the same way

Not surprised

 

[Orangecat]

Just stating the fact that Jan 6 will disgrace Trump, the Republican Party, and all their MAGA supporters for all eternity.

All eternity? Such a drama queen.

 

[Orangecat]

Nobody does....except for brain-dead MAGA traitors like you.

 

[Orangecat]

You and Hamas think the same way

 

[Rogue AI]

Only liberals celebrate quitters. How sad.

 

[marvin martian]

Just stating the fact that Jan 6 will disgrace Trump, the Republican Party, and all their MAGA supporters for all eternity.

Anyone who still worships Trump after that disgraceful day is a vile human being.

No one outside your little violent cult cares about January 6th.

Republicans won the White House, the Senate, and House after that.

You little bitches lost everything.

 

[Hafar1014]

You want to be excused for Jan 6.....and you never will be.

You people are traitors and that is the bottom line.

Compared to the ANTIFA ICE riots funded by democrats Jan 6 was nothing

 

[MarcATL]

You and Hamas think the same way

Not surprised

 

[progressive hunter]

Not because you say so, MAGA traitor.

of course it doesnt have anything to do with me saying it,,

it just is,,

 

[Ava]

I wasn’t invited to be in the room that day, and I had decided months earlier that I had to leave.

The above quote from the OPs first pasted paragraph by Col Krugman.

My whole point of this OP is to remind anyone there are two ( or more ) sides to every story. Col Krugman left one or more out of the posted reasons he was leaving the Marine Corps.

 

[Clipper]

And isn't it awesome that he had the right to drop out with no repercussions? He even had the right to complain about it.

You mean that military officer's who resign should face repurcussions because they disagreed with Trump?

Like what? A firing squad like in N. Korea?

 

[Clipper]

The military is better off without you

What Trump & you MAGA mouth breathers want is a military akin to N. Korea's where they are used to terrorize civilians into submission who don't swear allegiance to the Dear Leader.

Until they come after YOU. And they WILL.

 

[blackhawk]

So what it’s safe to say some people always leave the military if they don’t like or support a President most however don’t make a production out of it.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

'If you don't turn them over to the MPs this minute, I - -I'm going to resign my comission!...' - MASH

Hotlips O'Houlihan: [Raving about the Swampmen's latest stunt] If you don't turn them over to the MPs this minute, I - -I'm going to resign my comission! Colonel Blake: [In bed with a nurse] Goddamnit, Hot Lips, resign your goddamn comission! Hotlips O'Houlihan: [stares, then turns to leave...

clip.cafe

 

[struth]

What Trump & you MAGA mouth breathers want is a military akin to N. Korea's where they are used to terrorize civilians into submission who don't swear allegiance to the Dear Leader.

Until they come after YOU. And they WILL.

Military doesn’t scare me. Why does it scare you?

 

[Ava]

Only liberals celebrate quitters. How sad.

"Misery loves company."

 

[DonGlock26]

In a Washington Post Op-Ed today, Col Doug Krugman explains why he recently retired from the Marine Corps after 24 years.

Pardoning of the Jan 6 defendants had a lot to do with it. --

On Sept. 30, at an unprecedented gathering of senior military leadership, President Donald Trump said, “If you don’t like what I’m saying, you can leave the room — of course, there goes your rank, there goes your future.” I wasn’t invited to be in the room that day, and I had decided months earlier that I had to leave. By coincidence, Sept. 30 was my last day as a colonel in the United States Marine Corps. I gave up my career out of concern for our country’s future.

United States military officers take an oath to defend the Constitution without mental reservation or purpose of evasion. I swore or repeated that oath under five presidents, starting with former president Bill Clinton. I risked my life for it, serving as an infantry officer in two wars. I watched Marines die for it.

No commander in chief is perfect. President Clinton’s moral failures are well known. President George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq might be one of the worst errors in U.S. history. All recent presidents share responsibility for our failure in Afghanistan. I continued to serve despite all that because I believed the Constitution brought the country more success than failure, and I believed our presidents took their oaths to it seriously.

With President Trump, I no longer believe that. During his first term, his actions became increasingly difficult for me to justify, culminating with the Jan. 6 attack on Congress as it tried to execute its duties. I hoped he had learned from those errors, but it only took a few days of his second term for me to realize he had not. I could not swear without reservation to follow a commander in chief who seemed so willing to disregard the Constitution.

My departure was not about policy disagreements, which exist in every administration. President Trump won in 2024 and has the right to implement his policies within the law.

My first reservations were about promises and actions that I thought were morally wrong even if they were possibly legal. The Constitution gives the president the power to pardon, but pardoning roughly 1,600 of those who tried to violently overthrow the results of an election didn’t help defend the Constitution. Likewise, I didn’t see it as moral to deny refuge to Afghans who risked their lives to support us, which he did on Jan. 22. Ignoring reality to take advantage of vague laws to assume emergency powers is also immoral. For those who believe in honoring their word, breaking promises our country has made — including some trade agreements President Trump made himself — is not moral. These are not the kinds of actions that I’m willing to risk my life to defend.

Worse than immorality, however, has been President Trump’s willingness to disregard the law and Constitution to achieve his goals. When asked in May about the Fifth Amendment requirements for due process and if he needed to uphold the Constitution as president, the first words out of his mouth were “I don’t know.”

This month, National Guard officers received orders from the defense secretary that their governors opposed. A federal judge intervened, citing the lack of apparent emergency and the 10th Amendment. Those commanders and units were stuck between competing orders with no clear answer. When the president’s orders push or cross legal limits and put commanders in these situations, cohesion within our military is at risk.

President Trump’s description of Portland as a “war zone” is as fantastical as his belief that the June protests in a few blocks of Los Angeles would somehow “obliterate” the massive city of nearly 4 million. In both cases, his words had little connection to reality. Every dubious basis he gives for an order creates more room for doubt, more room for reservations and more threats to our unity.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/10/16/marine-resign-trump-oath-constitution/

 

[Dr. Phosphorous]

Compared to the ANTIFA ICE riots funded by democrats Jan 6 was nothing

Tell me again when Antifa tried to steal an election, traitor?

Please tell me all about their elaborate fake elector scheme......MAGA imbecile.