Opinion: How Trump Slaps Lincoln in the Face on Ship Bearing His Name

Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Getty/Reuters A 19-year-old sailor with a wife the same age, along with a 7-month-old daughter and a 3-year-old son, is reported to have reached a limit on Aug.

3 aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln.

The aircraft carrier’s namesake had famously cited the nation’s obligation “to care for him who shall have borne the battle.” A more recent president, George W.

Bush, stood on the ship before a banner reading “Mission Accomplished” in 2003 and declared victory in his war of choice in Iraq eight years before the U.S. admitted failure and left.

Our current president, Donald Trump, had never himself borne battle, but he had heedlessly sent others to face it in his own war of choice, this time against Iran.

He was cheered on by his self-proclaimed “warfighter,” Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.

One result was that the teenage sailor and his 5,000 shipmates on the USS Abraham Lincoln were deployed long after they were initially scheduled to return.

He was at sea when his second child was born and was still there after 255 days when he reportedly went overboard.

The Navy suggested he may have fallen.

His wife told MS NOW that he leaped and was in the water for an hour before he was pulled out.

“I think the boat is finally getting to me and I really dont think i can keep up my peace act anymore,” he had reportedly texted his wife in San Diego beforehand.

“you are right about it all not being okay, we were supposed to leave 5th fleet on july 15th but then something had to come up and my last hope of being home soon was gone, im really trying to not feel negative or hopeless but between the wifi and not knowing when i will come home and not knowing what is happening back at home, its really getting me, i dont think i can do another deployment after this and i dont even know if i can finish this deployment.” The USS Abraham Lincoln remained in the Middle East amid a mix of rumors and substantiated reports about deteriorating conditions while those on board conducted around-the-clock combat operations.

Bad water.

Insufficient food.