Don Moynihan: Naval Academy cancels Ken Burns doc showing because Burns insulted Trump

[Dennis Donovan]

Don Moynihan
‪@donmoyn.bsky.social‬
The Naval Academy cancelled a freakin' Ken Burns documentary showing, not because of the content, but because Burns had been critical of Trump
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

April 26, 2025 at 4:51 PM

https://bsky.app/profile/donmoyn.bsky.social/post/3lnqmj5qh6k2w

[Solly Mack]

1. Collaborationists.

Cowards all.

[Irish_Dem]

2. US Navy diminishes and humiliates itself by kissing Orange Hitler's ass.

My US Navy uncle was killed in WWII fighting the damn nazis.
I hope he comes back to haunt all of you cowards.

[marble falls]

3. Shocks the shit out of me, but then the Academy officers were the most conservative ...

... privileged, narrow minded segment of the Navy when I was in. They either wanted out asap because they were resume polishing with the academy education or they had plans to be the third or fourth generation Naval retiree,

[Irish_Dem]

4. I was an USAF kid and it didn't feel that way with the officers.

It was a newer branch of the service, so not the long standing tradition, pomp and circumstance.
Not a lot of older retired types.

Officers were more laid back and low key.
Smart, practical, just doing their jobs.
Not a lot of military trappings or protocol.

The military sucking up to the orange hitler is making me sick.

[marble falls]

9. My daughter's USAF husband got kicked out less than a year after graduation for being ...

... arrested with sex workers.

[Irish_Dem]

11. Males from all walks of life are found with sex workers. Not unique to the military.

[marble falls]

12. Goes without saying. Difference being the Air Force feels that a person who's been caught ...

... by civilian authorities for breaking laws more than once as breaking his oath as an Air Force Officer. It may have made him a target for blackmail if he was privy to secure information.

[Irish_Dem]

14. Do you think the other branches are more lax about this kind of situation?

Yes it makes an officer a security risk.

[not fooled]

19. And isn't the Air Force extra-special Christian-y?

makes any moral failings extra hypocritical.

[Paladin]

5. Well then, fuck the Naval Academy.

Trump-sucking Naval leadership vs. Ken Burns? No contest...

[oasis]

6. Ken's documentary will now get viewership

above and beyond what was previously expected.

[bluestarone]

7. SCARY, when this IDIOT running our country owns

All three branch's of military.

[Cha]

8. Cheers to Ken Burns.. TY

Fuck the Fascist "Navel Academy".

[BoRaGard]

10. Annapolis earns a big ol' Brown Nose nickel-plated Turd Polisher

so meekly surrendering the honor of the Naval Academy.

Sad.

[Grim Chieftain]

13. Mind control, pure and simple

The people must agree with the fetid one and march in lock-step or be silenced. Folks, we are living in very scary times.

[Iamscrewed]

15. FCk tRmp

.

[gilligan]

16. Hmmm

Was his wittle feelings hurt.

[sakabatou]

17. O NOES! How dare they insult Dear Leader

[soldierant]

18. Jimmy Carter would be terribly disappointed.

[BurnDoubt]

20. Politicizing the Military. Christofascists are already endemic. Opus Dei...

isn't the DEI they love to hate.

[BurnDoubt]

21. Besides, there is a mandatory Prayer Meeting that day.

[BurnDoubt]

23. No longer "Fighting For Your Right to Say It"???????????????

Remember that? Made quaint by wiping their asses on the Constitution>

[kentuck]

22. Wow! Whaat happened to free speech?!

This seems a direct violation of our First Amendment, the right to free speech?

[BurnDoubt]

24. Thank You!!!!!

[BidenRocks]

25. Hey Navy!

Did you bow before your orange god? Did you say, Please Sir! Let us kiss your ass!
Fuck your budget if a 78 year old paunchy shit stain scares you.
I would give Ukraine our Navy. They wouldn't kiss anyone's ass!

[Mblaze]

26. So they are teaching our young cadets

To be cowards.

[SunSeeker]

27. These assholes had no problems with people insulting Biden or Obama

But their thin-skinned Shitler must have his revenge on any who says the mildest criticism--even if that revenge denies our service men and women a thoughtful history lesson on the American Revolution. They don't care about our soldiers, they just care about Trump's feelings.

[58Sunliner]

28. Ken Burns, censured for speaking the truth about our international embarrassment.

FU.

[Exp]

29. Trump criticizes EVERYBODY. TSF is such a whimp. nt

[niyad]

30. Remind me why we are supporting these incredibly exxpensive institutions?

The sexism, the religious bs (particularly at AFA). .and look at some of the traitors they turn out.

[Permanut]

31. This Navy vet took an oath to the constitution in 1965..

Got an honorable discharge in 1971.

Those I served with on the destroyer USS Sampson, DDG 10, all men at that time, served honorably to a man. We took our oath seriously, and did a damn good job carrying out orders.

I never heard any of my shipmates praise Lyndon Johnson or Richard Nixon - or say anything at all about them. We had a job to do and we did it.

It is baffling and disappointing to see today's Navy bow down to an unqualified draft dodger. Things have apparently changed.