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/
