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 Brendan McDermid/ReutersDonald Trump is now showing clips from Stanley Kubrick's Vietnam-era war film Full Metal Jacket to try to make the case that the U.S. military—in its current state under the Biden administration—is far removed from its glory days.
But Trump, who appears to have an at-best tenuous understanding of depictions of that war on the big screen, was quite selective in the brief excerpts of the 1987 movie that he showed a Pennsylvania crowd Wednesday. R. Lee Ermey's character, Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, was featured prominently, in particular his loud, in-your-face commands at the marines-in-training.
Not included in the video package, though, was Hartman's fate: being shot to death by a recruit he often mocked, who in turn kills himself.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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"This could be the worst storm to hit Florida in over a century," U.S. President Joe Biden warned.
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Israel is expanding its attacks across the Middle East, bombing more sites in Yemen and Lebanon over the weekend after carrying out a massive attack in the suburbs of Beirut on Friday that killed longtime Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and other top commanders of the militant group. Nasrallah led Hezbollah for more than three decades and was considered one of the most powerful figures in the region. Israel likely used U.S.-made 2,000-pound bombs in Friday's attack that leveled several high-rise apartment buildings, with a death toll estimated in the hundreds. U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris both called Nasrallah's killing "a measure of justice" while saying they were against further escalation of the war. "The news really shocked all of Lebanon, both supporters and people who oppose him," says Associated Press reporter Kareem Chehayeb in Beirut, who notes about 1 million people inside Lebanon are now displaced by the fighting. "The airstrikes aren't stopping; they're continuing. And now people are anticipating a ground invasion."
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