Sailor’s Wife Tears Into Trump For Denying ‘Prison Ship’ Hell

Ken Cedeno / REUTERS The wife of a sailor trapped aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln has blasted President Donald Trump’s dismissive response to the increasingly dire conditions on the aircraft carrier, calling on the president to show some “sympathy” and “accountability” for the service members stuck at sea.

“I don’t think the man thinks before he talks,” the woman, whose identity was not revealed, told Jake Tapper in a phone interview on CNN Friday.

“I was really hoping at some point there would be a redemption.

Try to redeem yourself at least a little bit,” she said, addressing Trump.

“Have some sympathy, some empathy, take some accountability for what’s going on with your military, your ship, your war,” she continued.

“It’s infuriating.” Her comments came just hours after Trump brushed off concerns from military families about the sailors’ extended deployment.

Asked on Friday whether family members were worried about conditions aboard the ship, Trump, who has never served in the military, replied: “ No, they’re not .” When he was asked whether the deployment had gone on too long, given the conditions and mental health risks, the president responded: “No, no, no.

Not nearly long enough.” The sailor’s wife told Tapper that her husband’s experience aboard the ship has been radically different from Trump’s characterization.

She compared the sailors on the ship, which has been floating in the Arabian Sea during Trump’s war with Iran, to being “stuck in a floating metal prison in the middle of the water, eating prison-like food with the same people in the same bunk beds in the same small quarters for 200 days, 250 days.

You start to go a little insane.” “I’m appalled at the conditions on this ship,” she said.

The woman pointed out that this is not her husband’s first deployment aboard a Navy ship, meaning he knows how the vessels are supposed to operate.

“It is the worst deployment he’s ever been on,” she said.

“He also said the food’s been appalling.

It’s been appalling the whole time...