At his retirement event on Friday on the USS Constitution in Boston, Ted Macie wore a red “Make America Great Again” hat to support former President Donald Trump. This was the first thing he did after leaving the Navy.
“He didn’t start any wars. And having a family and being in the service makes that even more important,” Macie told Mathew Boyle, the Washington bureau chief for Breitbart News, in an exclusive interview on Sirius XM’s Breitbart News on Saturday.
“Secondly, it’s clear that he has strict rules for the borders” Quite different from Kamala, the border chief, who only went down once and didn’t do anything else,” he said.
“The last thing—that’s why I was glad to put on that hat last night—is that Trump was a political outsider, no matter what you think of him,” he said. “He will stop these wars if he gets back into office,” he said.
As a Seabee, Macie was a first-class petty officer for 11 years. After becoming an officer, he joined the Navy’s medical service corps and worked as a supervisor for another 11 years.
“The people of the United States have given up their power and their part in the government. The armed forces can’t guard them because of this. The people of the United States need to do something. The military isn’t the only group that needs to protect our country and law. People have to fight, and I’m going to fight with you guys as a citizen.”
“Tyranny put an end to my job. Take a look at that. Because I fought against oppression, I can no longer serve in the US Navy. People are too lazy to fight a government that is too powerful. It’s only going to get worse from here. Giving up is not a choice. We have to fight back if we want to fix our country as I fought against orders that were not just. I will keep fighting, just like I did to get to retirement and to warn people about the risks to their health and to our way of life. I took an oath that will never end. It wasn’t to a leader, the President, or any officer in charge of me. The promise was to the Constitution of the United States, which is what the ship is named after. And I will fight and die if I have to in order to do that. Okay, so some people will never understand what other people have given up for them. In fact, that’s pretty much the point of doing it. Being the one who gives up something is better than not knowing about the sacrifices that others make. Still, this isn’t a reason to be completely lazy and uninterested. We need to leave a strong base for the generations that come after us.”
Macie said he was going to vote for Trump for the third time.
“Okay, Trump isn’t perfect. No one is going to be great. This is not the case with Harris and Biden, though. They are very different,” he said.
In an open letter, more than 200 former military officers recently backed Trump. Macie is the latest to do the same.
