Ruben Gallego: The Presidency Is Not About Trump’s Opportunity To Air His Personal Grievances

‘The president doesn’t understand the presidency is about the nation’

This story is cross-posted at our consumer site, Grabien News. Watch it there – without audiomarks.

RUSH EXCERPT:

ACOSTA: "Barbara Starr was talking about this a few moments ago. Here we are two years into the Administration, the President still has not made a visit to troops in a war zone. I guess, first of all, do you believe that he should? I guess the other factor in all of this is, well, if he does go might he engage in some of the same political rhetoric he did yesterday."

GALLEGO: "I think he should go. Every president should go visit military members overseas whether they’re in a war zone or not in a war zone, because we deserve — I say we as someone stationed in Iraq, we deserve to see our leaders, whether they be members of Congress or our President. I would hope he would be mature and not engage in that type of rhetoric while he is overseas, but it is not in him. The President doesn’t understand the presidency is about the nation, it is not about his opportunity to, you know, get out his personal grievances. I hope he will actually learn from the many men and women that are overseas that this is about service over self."

Video files
Full
Compact
Audio files
Full
Compact