Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley apologized for taking part in a photo-op in front of St. John's Episcopal Church with President Trump amid the protests over the death of George Floyd. NBC News' Carol Lee reports from the White House. Aired on 06/11/2020.
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Gen. Milley Apologizes For Role In Trump’s Church Photo-op | Craig Melvin | MSNBC
Yes, finally someone admits they’re a jerk.
empty words. Either do something or stfu.
He’s still a mean mouthed looking Republican
@anne bruce Excellent point. Maybe we can take a little encouragement in this baby step?
@Nancy Prevost I’m trying to see the glass half full and know that justice is coming as Glenn Kirschener says but, barr always replaces that with the glass half empty. However am watching Glenn’s YouTube video now so 🤞🤞🤞
VOTE Blue in november!! End the trump swamp gop
Some bells cannot be unrung. That is why people need to consider consequences before kowtowing to fascists.
Tony Glover I guess I mean you are one of the most ignorant people on 🌎 difference. You are the change that needs to happen.
I will accept the apology and him realizing he shouldn’t have been there representing the military. What frustrates me is having the highest ranking military in this county being lead by the nose of a washed up reality TV show host. I just don’t understand?
Hilary 2020! Oh.. Wait.
Hold up GOD’S HOLY WORD TRUMP!
He understands more than you. You don’t like that. He understands your idealism is a phony sales pitch at an attempt to represent your shallow entity as something to be regarded as resolute, helpful, and honorable. I didn’t need a paid college brainwashing for that one.
@Rick Nash kinda like what you and yours do?
Refreshing. Sad it’s so rare in this “administration” to own up to one’s ill advised actions.
Don’t join clown trump military or trump government in 2017
I said that
Lana Kahl We live in a time of abject mendacity narcissism & raging self preservation, factored into a labyrinthine perpetual news cycle, “one week” seems like one nanosecond. I think you’d have to agree, his week of reflection & then articulating public contrition, has elevated him above the fray. No?
They only “own up” when they get caught…if no one told him what he had done was wrong, this public apology would never have happened. No one has the balls to stand up in the moment, only after they have been made to look bad. At which point the apology is too little, too late.
Bet you anything he asked Trump for permission to call out his mistake, be for announcing it.
Nate Waters I think you’re right about what precipitated the public apology, but if he didn’t know he was wrong or challenged on the idea, why would he apologize? I mean even you’re suggesting that he didn’t know, so at the very minimum, maybe he didn’t understand the gravity of that comical exercise.
Haha. Trump is going to blow his wig!
@Big Smoke Guitar fingers crossed
@connie baldwin lol I been saying he is the anti-christ for awhile now
@Constituent A and is Lee Harvey ready?
Trump is back in his bunker. Coward gets changed his diapers.
@Pipov 3010 lol
Seems like he knows he won’t have four more years with Trump
@Anthony you people will try and find any reason possible to not trust a decorated general won’t you? Traitor. The man has earned 16 military awards those awards being 2 DDSM, 4 ADSM, 3 DSSM, 3 LOM, and 4 bronze stars.
@Anthony .RUM. make America great again. cheers! hick
Bore Trajanoski I don’t mind us Keeping America Great at all. https://youtu.be/JdY0O0kming
@GR3YH4TT3R93 Trump & his allies are all defending the same traitors who went to war against their own government & got slaughtered. The same ones who tell black people to get over slavery but refuse to get over the Confederate flag & those statues memorializing LOSERS & TRAITORS.
@SUGAR DOLLAR DADDY BBC That’s just the beginning of the interference – Trump and his lawyer Bill Barr will go to the end of the earth to stop Trump from losing this election – there’s too much money to be made for the corrupt greedy men and women who are doing deals with foreign countries that we’re not aware of! It will be a dangerous move, indeed, if Trump gets in and Bill Barr is his Attorney – America will not be the same if he stays!
The fact that he knows he will be attacked by the president lends credibility to his apology IMO. The attack on him by the president will probably commence by the end of the day
Trump destroys whatever he touches smh
Is America Great Yet?? smh
@CAPTAIN SALTY Very nice! Glad you are happy! I love machines and electronics of all kinds! My motto is.. If ya can’t plug it in or put gas in it….. It ain’t worth having! Lol! I used to build my own hot rods. Including the engines. From a 69 Z-28 to a 62 425 hp 409 chevy! Now I just buy performance. Like a BMW 5 Series. And an 18 foot modern bass boat! My bmw cost $80,000 but I have more in my home stereo? And don’t even know how much I have in guitar and P.A. gear! I’m insane!… But happy lol!
@science wins SOUNDS LIKE WE HAVE ALOT IN COMMON. I KNOW THE 348 409 ALL CHEVY SMALL AND BIG BLOCKS
WORKED FOR GM 20 YEARS IN HALLANDALE FLORIDA. BILL KELLY CHEV.
YOU SOUND LIKE A GOOD GUY. TO BAD I CANT SPELL BUT AT LEAST IM NOT A FRIGGEN DEMSCRAT. LOL
BE WELL MY FRIEND. ✌🇺🇸
P.S. FISHED DEEP SEA MOST OF MY LIFE OFFSHORE FT.LAUDERDALE AND THE BAHAMAS. NEVER HAD A BMW
CORVETTES ARE MY STYLE. GOOD LUCK.
CAPTAIN SALTY Who you lying to man. This is your flag ( 🇷🇺 ) Be proud of it, don’t hide behind the American flag.
@Mayk3_ME # 1 I DONT HIDE FROM NO ONE MY FLAG IS 🇺🇸 # 2 I DONT LIE #3 NEVER SAW YOUR FLAG.
IM A HOME GROWN ALL AMERICAN VET.
CAPTAIN SALTY Like I’m suppose to take the word of some random dude on the internet HaHaHaHa!! Especially one that glorifies a known LIER..Yeah funny. Veteran of the Russian army maybe. Your own flag boy ( 🇷🇺 )
Stay tuned for a Trump tweet on this lol
That mushroom cloud rising over the WH right now? Oh, that would be Trump’s head exploding…
OMG…
Don’t even joke about mushroom clouds right now.
Trump is toying with the idea to play with nuclear weapons sometime in July.
(Hasn’t said where he wants to fire these things off….)
Maybe that will be his surprise fourth of July tribute for America….I don’t know….
Don’t give this man any ideas.
Stay safe….vote
Wait for him to declare and proclaim something against immigrants like they’re the reason for his poor decisions. SMH.
Trump: I do not know that guy, never met him.
@Moha Umar As are all sentients
I don’t know him, and he’s fired.
Lol, at least he came out publicly to admit he was wrong. Now if there are any other sane people left in his administration, GROW A PAIR AND DO THE SAME. Your working for a madman.
What a stupid liar. The whole world laughs at him every day. Little coward bunker boy
😂 so true
People power is not a joke. They really got a general out here apologizing. Awesome.
TRUE!!!!
@Meheretu Getahun #WeThePeople
well, when all the old people die……. who’s gonna run the country?>
certainly the children of the ELITES……. BUT… BUT…. how can you be a manager/boss of an agency, military, or political congress,
IF VAST majority of young people refuse to work for YOU, refuse to come work for someone like you if they think you’re bad.
the boss will have to flip hamburgers by himself and go to the drive-by booth to give food, and be cashier etc, all at the same time.
while the young people are busy burning the city down till there is no more,
the so called elites and their children won’t have a place or good life to enjoy, cause the basic infrastructures of life, and services of businesses, will all be burnt to the ground, and no one to clean it up.
that is the POWER OF THE PEOPLE.
the refusal to work, the refusal to be the TOOL of agencies of government to suppress their own citizens.
That’s how a grown up behaves. He admits a mistake and learns
Yup. It sounded good that apology but bad decision for a general in even agreeing the walk. Still seems sincere enough. I’ma watching though
I’ll always respect a man who admits his mistakes and sincerely apologises…. King David did just so and was forgiven…We all make mistakes and get ahead of ourselves from time to time…Trump on the other hand would Never apologise, would Never admit for one single second he was wrong about anything he’s done said or thought….
Trumps a total failure..Why anyone would choose to walk behind the anti Christ is just bizarre.
@Barbara Witchey And now 115,000 USA COVID 19 Death Certificates and rising….only 84 times Australia’s death rate per head of population, what a “spectacular” job
by the Charlatan in Chief…
Anti Christ ? And you call people bizarre ? You are a fanatic
@JamesToo indoctrinated to understand a figure of speech are you? Or is it just when Trump is a figure of fun? That’s bizarre…
@James thanks James
I know right? I truly believe he is the antichrist.
Get ready for bunker boy to go on his 2yr old tweet storm over this one.
🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣 TRUE
Hahahahaha. True let’s wait for it on all the news.
“Some people say he wasn’t a good guy. Not too bright. Too uptight in the briefings. I couldn’t pay attention to him, very boring, put me to sleep. What a weak guy. I called him Meek Milley. Wasn’t very tough, wasn’t tough on China. Yugely disappointing. I don’t know the guy really, but he’s weak.”
sgt shitbags only sorry after realizing mostly whites caught that smoke.. if these were BLACK protestors he would be bragging about it..
I’m a veteran, and any veteran who supports a five time draft dodging, fake bones spurs unpatriotic coward of a traitor is a DISGRACE to the uniform they once wore!
Lol. You are a disgrace of a veteran
Yo Mama Why?
@Yo Mama You are a Russian sympathizing idealist. Your comments don’t matter. dasvidaniya.
@xopha Americans love their English best friends. We will be voting him out in November. The world will be able to sleep peaceful at that point. He is a disaster and please don’t think he represents Americans because we cant wait to get rid of him .
LOSER…My Vet friends love him. THEY KNOW
trump’s little hands are like a reverse midas. 😷😷🤬🤬
He is giving them extra time in his bunker now. It’s playtime in bunker days!
Put those hands to use, Donald.
I respect that, he admitted a mistake , clearly, without trying to disguise it as a misunderstanding or a I didnt know , or a I tought it was something else …
He openly says , ” I made a mistake and I’m learning from it, I should not have done that ”
That is ok in my book,now if you do it again, or side again with the president on something similar.. or if you stand idle while watching more civilians being tear gassed or flash banged or rubber bullet shot at , that would be a different story and would erase this respect sir.
I’m prepared to agree with you…..Yes he didn’t gaslight us with any twisted crap but if he does any about turns…people got to go back to no Justice or Integrity NO PEACE! TIME TO STOP THIS FOOLISH WH ADMINISTRATION AND ITS CRONIES
He stepped on the wrong side of history and realized it.
The General has realized just like Dr. Fauci that the Bunker Boy Trump ship is sinking Bigly…!!!
Every general that associates himself with “president” trump winds up with his reputation, career, and legacy in shambles.