Trump vows firings over Afghanistan ‘humiliation’ on anniversary of Abbey Gate attack

Former President Donald Trump told a National Guard Association conference Monday that he would can every senior military and diplomatic official involved in the 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal fiasco — hours after paying tribute to 13 service members who died in an ISIS attack during the botched bugout.

On a day in which the 78-year-old hammered the Biden-Harris administration over the removal of US troops and the subsequent reconquest of Afghanistan by the Taliban, Trump told an audience of part-time soldiers that voters “are going to fire Kamala and Joe on Nov. 5, we hope.”

“And when I take office we will ask for the resignations of every single official,” the Republican nominee added. “We’ll get the resignations of every single senior official who touched the Afghanistan calamity, to be on my desk at noon on Inauguration Day.

“You know, you have to fire people. You have to fire people when they do a bad job,” Trump added. “You got to fire them like on ‘The Apprentice’ … You did a lousy job. You did a terrible, terrible disservice to our country. You get fired when that happens.”

The service members and nearly 200 Afghans perished on Aug. 26, 2021 when ISIS-K suicide bomber Abdul Rahman al-Logari detonated an explosive vest outside Hamid Karzai International Airport’s Abbey Gate — the crowning catastrophe on a rushed evacuation that left hundreds of US citizens and Afghan allies behind to face a brutal Islamic fundamentalist regime.

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[lukemn]

One of Biden's greatest "Let's go Brandon's!" ever.

[markb]

Thanks for letting go those 5000 Taliban troops as part of your "tremendous deal". I'm sure that helped the withdrawn bigely.

[aliensxx]

actually, the most embarrassing day in our country is January 6th

[normahodge]

You set the whole thing up and bragged about it.

[michaeljmarini]

Isn't this the guy who didn't read his national security briefings and spent four years watching TV all day at work and calling into Foxy News and holding pep rallies on the taxpayer dime? Yep, this is the guy.

[SusanDianeHowell]

What were those 12 soldiers doing at Abbey Gate if the military had already been called out of Afghanistan?

[M.KathleenDougharty]

No the most embarrassing day in our country was the day you were elected!

[king-crane]

if he going to fire anyone he needs to fire himself as he made the deadline to withdraw and negotiate the whole thing before he left office.

[DonnaMead-wrfd]

Go Trump go!! Put FJB and FKH in prison.

[deannealbrecht]

Guess he shouldn't have handed it over to the Taliban while freeing ISIS by abandoning the Kurds.

[rip]

The most embarrassing day was when Trump gave Syria to Putin.

[LionelMessi-cttu]

Remind me, is this the guy who ‘built the wall’ and billed Mexico? Ah yes Diaper Don!

[GeorgeGobalVance]

Trump in April 2018 moved the Israel embassy starting world war three. Then he released 10000 taliban fighters and handed them 88 billion in weapons to use on Americans.

[johnniewaters]

He's using a tape recording for the sound of an audience cheering, oh my wont he cheat.

[Hammydavis]

What embarrassing day in our history is when you got elected president, our country became a joke and that can’t happen again

[timothyschreiber]

TRUMP 2024 ❤❤❤❤ PEACE AND PROSPERITY!!!!

[scottbaxendale]

0:08 You better fire yourself now, then…

[asmmsa]

He said "We never fire people. You need to fire people." When they do a bad job, we never fire anybody, like on "The Apprentce" your fired and did a lousy job!

[ovedg]

Wow He really has nothing else to talk about. There's bigger issues right now. Like trump supporters destroying America and democracy Mass shootings. Climate change. People being overworked and underpaid, especially here in Florida.

[rickferreira]

Oh yes it is the same guy. After all, t.v. ratings and poll numbers are all that matters to Donny Deutsch