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Trump doesn't understand the military's 'proper use and role,' a Marine Corps veteran and former DHS spokesman says
President Trump has consistently sparked controversy via his rhetoric and leadership of the US military.
President Donald Trump is nearly halfway through his first term and despite his tough talk on the military continues to face criticism for his approach to America's armed forces.
David Lapan, a retired Marine colonel who served in the Trump administration as a spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security in 2017, said Trump doesn't understand the "proper use and role of the military." The statement comes while the commander in chief faces criticism for deploying thousands of active-duty troops, who are barred from law enforcement in the US, to the US-Mexico border — a deployment that opponents have called a political "stunt."
"There was the belief that over time, he would better understand, but I don’t know that that’s the case," Lapan recently told The New York Times. "I don’t think that he understands the proper use and role of the military and what we can, and can't, do."
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Well before the controversial border deployment, Trump has consistently sparked controversy via his rhetoric and leadership of the US military.
The president has clashed with Gold Star families on more than one occasion, for example, drawing ire from Democrats and Republicans alike.
More recently, Trump was broadly criticized during a trip to France for skipping a visit to a World War I memorial because of rain. Meanwhile, the president's decision to send thousands of US troops to the border with Mexico to confront a migrant caravan has been decried as a "stunt," including by fellow Republicans in Congress.
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