The Bay of Pigs Award - is fake. It is actually a present from Brigade 2506 survivors for visiting their museum

 

      The Bay of Pigs Award is not the name of the item Donald Trump is holding here. Members of the Veterans of Brigade 2506 have given him a reproduction of the badge they carried into battle as thanks for his expressed opposition to Human Rights abuses and fighting Totalitarian Regimes. It was a gift from them when he visited the Brigade 2506 Museum in Little Havana Miami in October 2016 when he feared losing Florida during the campaign.

       Trump was fishing for Hispanic votes, which is why his handlers had him visit the museum. A couple of Brigade 2506 veterans gave him a plaque as a way of thanking him for coming. They didn't present it to him with great fanfare saying "Here is our Bay of Pigs Award because you're a great man." They gave him the plaque because he made a suitable condemnation of Fidel Castro, even though earlier - before the embargo was lifted - Trump circumvented the law searching for real estate in Cuba in the 1990s which would have helped the Castro regime. Do you think they knew that? They should now.

        And there has never been a "Bay of Pigs Award". Only a complete idiot would repeatedly call that plaque of the Brigade's badge by the name of the battle they fought and lost. 

All Donald Trump knows is that the men who presented him with the plaque were at a place called the Bay of Pigs...and they were thanking him for something he assumed had to do with that place and that he somehow improved it by coming to their museum. 

If at this point you're wondering WTF is the “Bay of Pigs Award” that Donald Trump proudly owns, then you have to wonder - does that mean Trump himself can be defeated in 3 days after he launches an ill-advised, ill-prepared, poorly-armed mission? Does the CIA receive it along with Trump? Why would Cuban-Americans award anything to someone associated with the U.S. government when it was government officials, primarily in the CIA, who misled, lied to, and ultimately stabbed in the back Brigade 2506? 

It was not John F. Kennedy. He was bamboozled by the CIA but took the fall by accepting responsibility as president. He then arranged and bought the survivor's freedom out of Castro's jails for roughly $53 million where most of the CIA preferred to let the prisoners rot. The Brigade 2506 survivors were released by the Castro government and returned to the U.S. in December 1962.

But the CIA has done a stellar job of ducking responsibility for their failures to the Brigade, misdirecting, and successfully pinning the blame on the assassinated president. Such CIA bravery.

Trump actually believes Cuban-Americans will flock to him if he gives himself a fictitious award named after the only military mission he knows that involved Cubans. He couldn’t tell you any details about the invasion at Playa Giron, Playa Largo, or Brigade 2506. Hell, he couldn’t tell you what year it happened. Those would be revealing questions to ask Trump. Why was the Cuban invasion force called Brigade 2506, or when did the invasion occur? Trump?  

He is renaming that plaque in order to gain - unearned - the loyalty of what he assumes are low-information Cuban-American voters who recognize the English words Bay of Pigs (Trump couldn’t pronounce Bahia Cochinos if his life depended on it). Plus, he hopes low-information American voters will be suitably impressed with a fake military operation-named presentation like "The Bay of Pigs Award" from Cubans who were there. The bogus award would show how others see him as honoring, not just American soldiers, but foreign soldiers who fight for the same principles. Trump is counting on them being suckers enough to fall for his falsely-named award targeted at the Latino community, and more importantly at history-ignorant American voters. 

 This is the Brigade's Flag. It was returned to them by John F. Kennedy.

C’mon, what else do Spanish-speaking people need? Trump has done more for Latinos – by simply claiming this Bay of Pigs Award – than any other president. They have to realize that Trump is honoring Cuban-Americans, (and by extension all Hispanics) by showing solidarity with them through a falsely-named shoulder patch plaque. Why wouldn’t they be stupid enough to vote for the guy who doesn’t give a damn about them except to usurp the name of a battle they bled in, lost hundreds of fellow soldiers during, then were defeated by Castro’s forces, and claim it as an award from the survivors? 

Since receiving that tribute plaque of the Brigade's shoulder patch, how has Trump helped Cuban-Americans? Why should any Cuban-American vote for a man who makes up names of awards to puff up his image simply to pander for their votes?

Donald Trump doesn't give a damn about American soldiers. How much less of a damn do you think he gives about Cuban-American soldiers? The fact that he uses the name of the battle they lost, rather than naming the award after the fighting Brigade itself, tells you everything you need to know about how Trump sees Cuban-Americans.

Trump is on the hunt for suckers and losers who buy into whatever lie he makes up. Here is hoping Brigade 2506 members and their families are smarter than that. 

Brigade 2506 survivors were returned to the U.S Christmas Eve 1962. Many met with and most forgave John Kennedy for the failed mission. Here they greet the president and Jackie at the Orange Bowl in Miami the day they were freed.

JFK Assassination fallout - Liars-in-Chief

What if...?

          May 29, 2016 marked the 99th birthday of John F. Kennedy. He probably wouldn't have lived that long but the history of the past 53 years would be vastly different if he had not been murdered. Thanks to his assassination we have been cursed with a parade of Liars-in-Chief holding the highest office in the land.

          When the American people allowed whoever it was that killed JFK to get away with his murder, the killers and those who supported them realized they could lie to us and we wouldn’t do anything about it.  

          I prefer to say things up front. John F. Kennedy WAS killed by a conspiracy, and the people who carried it out are still being protected by elements within our government…the FBI, the CIA, and the military. Lee Oswald didn’t kill anyone on November 22, 1963…not Tippit and not Kennedy. However, he has been vilified since then as the lone nut assassin. He was silenced by Jack Ruby so that the blame could be pinned on him without any recourse or anyone challenging it. He was exactly what he shouted in the halls of the Dallas Police Department, “I’m just a patsy”.  

The liars saw it and said that it was good.

          Are you satisfied with the course our country has taken since November 22, 1963? Kennedy’s death led to one liar after another holding the office of presidency. If any of these men had been Pinocchio, there wouldn’t have been enough wood available to keep extending their nose. Look at just a few examples of each:

None of these men would have become president if JFK had not been assassinated

          Lyndon Johnson will forever be remembered as the liar who pushed the Gulf of Tonkin resolution which was used to justify the American military buildup in South Vietnam and a war that killed over 58,000 U.S. soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines, nurses...and over a million Vietnamese.

          Richard Nixon lied about a secret plan to end the war in Vietnam to get elected, then illegally invaded Laos and Cambodia while lying to cover it up…and lied about virtually everything else until he resigned.

          Gerald Ford lied about what was in the Warren Commission testimonials. He knew the truth because he was ON the commission but still lied to protect the predetermined solution to the murder...that Oswald was the sole assassin.

          Jimmy Carter lied about being a “nuclear physicist and a peanut farmer.” He was neither: he held only a bachelor’s degree, and he owned a peanut warehouse.

          Ronald Reagan's lies started before he even got into office. Remember his famous “There you go again” line to Carter at the debate on October 28, 1980? Carter had just accused Reagan of being against Medicare and Social Security. Carter was right and Reagan was wrong, Reagan had recorded a record album in the 1960s opposing Medicare and Social Security because he claimed it was leading us down a socialist path. But Reagan got away with it because he got a laugh from the line. He also lied about the illegal war in Nicaragua that he initiated, the Iran-Contra deal, his environmental policies…the list goes on.

          George H.W. Bush – remember “read my lips, no new taxes”? He then passed the biggest tax increase in our nation’s history to that date. Also, unlike 99% of Americans alive then, Bush says he can't recall where he was the day Kennedy was shot, (even though there’s a picture of him standing outside the Texas School Book Depository that afternoon). I guess CIA agents don’t need to have reliable memories.

George H.W. Bush chats with other CIA and FBI agents while police sweep the TSBD.

          Bill Clinton lied about his numerous extra-marital affairs; even going so far as to try to redefine what “is” is during the run up to possible impeachment proceedings. Of course, when smoking pot, he didn't inhale, either.

          George W. Bush – lied about the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and dragged the U.S. into two wars.

          During a Joint session of congress in 2009 discussing health care reform, Barak Obama said: "There are also those who claim that our reform effort will insure illegal immigrants. This, too, is false – the reforms I'm proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally." In a breach of decorum South Carolina congressman Joe Wilson pointed at Obama and shouted, "You lie!" twice. But Wilson was right. Numerous cases have turned up where illegal immigrants had no problem getting on the Affordable Care Act. Obama even got MIT Professor Jonathan Gruber to identify the American voters as stupid people for passing the act. Not a lie per se, but a serious misjudgment.
          This is what our chief executives regularly pull off because it has become "part of the job"..  

          In November 2013 CNN even did a story about how and why presidents lie: http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/24/politics/presidents-lie/

          As if that makes it okay.

If the president's lips are moving, he's lying.

          Lying now defines American politics and presidents. They consistently lie because the U.S. government, to this day, continues to lie about the Kennedy assassination. Lying did not start there; it just became accepted and expected from that point on. It set a precedent that the liars in our government continue to build on.

          As long as we let the assassination lies and the liars who maintain it continue to rot American history and politics, our image around the world will sink lower and lower. We used to be considered “a shining beacon on a hill”. Now, thanks to lies that justify numerous wars we initiated or expanded since the JFK assassination, allow or encourage rampant CIA intrusions into foreign affairs, kill countless people the government gets to define as “bad”, and show callous disregard for the rights of other people or nations, we are the bully on the block...the rich, drunken, quarrelsome doofus that no one trusts.

      Are you pleased with what the U.S.A. has become?

          Then do something about it, because we are about to hold an election where we’ll have to choose from two more proven liars for the presidency.

They move in the same circles when they're not running against each other.