Presidential Historian Michael Beschloss Lambastes Trump’s Speech to Troops: ‘Obscene’

Speaking on MSNBC Thursday night, presidential historian Michael Beschloss called President Donald Trump‘s speech to troops in Iraq “disgraceful” and “obscene.”

“What did you make of that address that Donald Trump gave in front of U.S. Troops in Iraq?” Joy Reid, who was filling in for Rachel Maddow said.

“I thought it was obscene,” Beschloss said.

Then he said this:

“Just as you were saying, president goes to speak to Americans whose lives are in jeopardy, they are in harm’s way the tradition is you keep it non-political, you try to unite the group. You try to say ‘I’m your commander in chief, I’m behind you.’ You do not talk politics. And for him to start talking about in a nasty way about Democrats and Nancy Pelosi and we’ve been played for suckers in the past, that’s fine if you want to say those things at a Trump rally, at a stadium in the United States because people go to a Trump rally voluntarily and if they hear things they do not like, they can leave. These are young Americans, for the most part, who have chosen to serve their country, if the president says something they privately disagree with they don’t have the right to jeer him or get up and leave the way the rest of us do if we’re here in the United States.”

The presidential historian then added: “I thought it was disgraceful.”

Watch above, via MSNBC

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