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Donald 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.
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