Graham Platner Disparaged Army Soldiers in Deleted Reddit Posts: 'Full of Fat, Lazy Trash Who Would

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Graham Platner Disparaged Army Soldiers in Deleted Reddit Posts: 'Full of Fat, Lazy Trash Who Would Rather Not Be in Uniform'
Platner said the Army 'attracts a lower standard of person' and called military officers 'gay'

 
Alana Goodman
May 20, 2026
Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner disparaged Army soldiers in since-deleted Reddit posts, calling the Army an "awful" organization "full of fat, lazy trash who would rather not be in uniform."

"The Army does things differently, and as a whole, they do things much worse," Platner, who served in the Marine Corps before reenlisting in the Maryland Army National Guard, wrote on Reddit in March 2019. "As an organization it's awful. Full of fat, lazy trash who would rather not be in uniform."


One month later, in April 2019, Platner wrote that "as a whole," the Army "is absolute trash" and "is absolutely lacking in the warrior ethos and leadership obsession that the Corps has, and generally attracts a lower standard of person. And on the whole, it shows."

https://freebeacon.com/democrats/graham-platner-disparaged-army-soldiers-in-deleted-reddit-posts-full-of-fat-lazy-trash-who-would-rather-not-be-in-uniform/

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Democrat Senate Candidate Graham Platner Mocked Purple Heart Recipient: ‘Dumb Motherf***er Didn’t Deserve to Live’
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Alana Mastrangelo20 May 2026357
 
Past Reddit posts from Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner have surfaced yet again — this time, showing the 41-year-old Democrat mocking a U.S. soldier who was shot four times in Afghanistan, writing, “Dumb bleep didn’t deserve to live.”

“This video never gets old,” Platner wrote in a June 2019 Reddit post, referring to a viral video featuring Pfc. Ted Daniels in a 2012 firefight with the Taliban, which resulted in the soldier being shot four times and earning a Purple Heart for his injuries.


“Dumb bleep didn’t deserve to live,” the Democrat Senate hopeful — whose archived Reddit rants can be found on the Maine Monitor’s database — said in his since-deleted post.

Platner went on to write, “At least his stupidity and fat ass wheezing are available for all future infantrymen to witness and hold in contempt.”

“Poor marksmanship on the Taliban’s part is the only reason this mouthbreather made it home, he managed to make every possible shit decision possible when it comes to small unit combat,” Platner added.

https://www.breitbart.com/pre-viral/2026/05/20/democrat-senate-candidate-graham-platner-mocked-purple-heart-recipient/