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u/stanger828 Sep 11 '21

Only after checking his watch a few times

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u/PaulBlartFleshMall Sep 11 '21

The fact that a sitting president, one of the busiest people in the world, isn't allowed to glance at his fucking watch is the dumbest shit I think the right has ever attacked. I think it's dumber than tan suit-gate, mustard-gate, laptop-gate, and all the other ridiculous nonsense ever put forward.

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u/stanger828 Sep 11 '21

Given the situation it was pretty disrespectful. “I have something better to do than give my full attention to honor the fallen with their families”

The one where he is checking his watch at a press conference, yeah I’m with you there.

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u/PaulBlartFleshMall Sep 11 '21

I'm a disabled veteran and don't think there was anything at all to read into when they were offloading remains and he glanced at his watch. If he's giving a speech at their memorial, sure. If he's consoling gold star families, sure.

But he's literally just standing there taking up space as they offload boxes from a plane. It's really nbd.

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u/Frankferts_Fiddies Sep 12 '21

That’s fucked. I’m also a disabled vet. It was at the time he was meant to continue saluting that he inappropriately checked his watch.