“I was watching during Biden, there were troops standing up like this, brave. And people are standing, their mouth is this far away from their mouth. And they’re spitting at them and screaming at them. That soldier is standing there, he wants to knock the hell out of the press, but he’s not allowed to do anything. So they just stand there and they get abused… I’ve taken that off. I say, they spit, we hit. Is that okay?”
— President Trump, speaking to the military’s top generals and officers.
