A. Introduction
Donald Trump’s paternal grandfather, who had emigrated to the United States, tried to return to his native Germany in 1904 but was expelled because it was revealed he had avoided the required military service. Donald John Trump has continued that tradition. Moreover, he has lied about those in uniform, ridiculed them, and insulted them in a way no American “leader” ever has. He is the most viciously anti-military president in our history, despite his embrace of the military trappings of his office. Let’s plunge into his appalling and outrageous personal history in this area.
B. The Birth of Cadet Bone Spurs
Trump, from all accounts, was an ill-behaved child. Frustrated with his lack of personal discipline, after Donald's 8th grade year his parents shipped him off to New York Military Academy in the Hudson Valley. Trump appeared to thrive in the school's highly disciplined and structured regimen. It seemed to bring out his competitive nature as well. It was this period that convinced Trump he was some sort of military expert.
It was this attitude that caused The New York Daily News, after Trump had denigrated John McCain’s heroism, to ridicule Trump mercilessly:
Trump began his higher education in 1964 at Fordham University. In 1966 he transferred to the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. It was during this period that Trump received four draft deferments on the basis of being a college student. After graduating from Wharton, Trump was re-classified as 1A in July 1968. An armed forces physical found him disqualified on the basis of bone spurs in his heels, which got him his fifth deferment. Later Trump got a high number in the draft lottery. Curiously, his supposed physical limitation didn't prevent Trump from participating in various sports, including golf, baseball, tennis, and squash.
“While disabled veterans should be given every opportunity to earn a living, is it fair to do so to the detriment of the city as a whole or its tax paying citizens and businesses?” Trump wrote in a 1991 letter to John Dearie, then-chairman of the state Assembly’s Committee on Cities.“Do we allow Fifth Ave., one of the world’s finest and most luxurious shopping districts, to be turned into an outdoor flea market, clogging and seriously downgrading the area?” Trump demanded.
"He complained in a letter to then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg that the ambiance of Fifth Ave. — the address of his gleaming Trump Tower headquarters — was being wrecked by peddlers, including some he accused of only posing as vets. [My emphasis]
“He’s done more damage to the disabled veterans in this city than any other man.”
Less than a year into McCain's imprisonment, his father was named commander of US forces in the Pacific, and the North Vietnamese saw an opportunity for leverage by offering the younger McCain's release — what would have been both a propaganda victory and a way to demoralize other American POWs.
But McCain refused, sticking to the POW code of conduct that says troops must accept release in the order in which they are captured.
"I knew that every prisoner the Vietnamese tried to break, those who had arrived before me and those who would come after me, would be taunted with the story of how an admiral's son had gone home early, a lucky beneficiary of America's class-conscious society," McCain later recalled.
The North Vietnamese reacted with fury and escalated McCain's torture.
McCain soon reached what he would later describe as his lowest point in Vietnam, and after surviving intense beatings and two suicide attempts, he signed a "confession" to war crimes written by his captors.
"I had learned what we all learned over there: Every man has his breaking point. I had reached mine," McCain wrote in a first-person account published in US News & World Report in May 1973.
In 2015, after McCain had criticized Trump, Trump was asked about McCain. Here is his answer:
But there was to be much more to the Trump-McCain saga. azcentral published a list of the various criticisms the two made of each other. When McCain defended Arizona’s Hispanic population against Trump’s ugly, racist lies, Trump responded:
July 11, 2015: Trump appeared at a rally at the Phoenix Convention Center. "We have incompetent politicians, not only the president," Trump told the crowd. "I mean, right here, in your own state, you have John McCain." The pro-Trump audience booed the mention of McCain's name. After the event, Trump hammered McCain some more. "I've supported John McCain, but he's very weak on immigration," Trump said. "If the right person runs against John McCain, he will lose."
July 16, 2015: The New Yorker published McCain's reaction to Trump's Arizona rally. “This performance with our friend out in Phoenix is very hurtful to me,” McCain said in the interview. “Because what he did was he fired up the crazies.” Trump immediately fired back on Twitter, demanding that McCain apologize for the "crazies" remark and calling McCain a "dummy" for graduating last in his class at the U.S. Naval Academy. Trump called for McCain to be defeated in his primary.
There was a brief period of seeming reconciliation, but once Trump became president, hostilities flared again.
Feb. 9, 2017: After McCain criticized the White House for calling a raid on Yemen a success, noting a U.S. Navy SEAL died during the event, Trump attacked McCain on Twitter. He chided the senator for characterizing the raid as a failure, saying it only emboldens the enemy.
July 20, 2017: Just hours after announcing he had been diagnosed with brain cancer, McCain blasts Trump for his decision to end an Obama policy of offering CIA training for moderate Syrian rebels fighting the regime of Bashar Al-Assad.
"If these reports are true, the administration is playing right into the hands of Vladimir Putin," McCain said in a statement.
July 27, 2017:McCain casts a dramatic "no" vote on the "skinny repeal" of the Affordable Care Act, providing the decisive vote that kept the law alive. The late-night vote brought an immediate, somewhat mild, reaction from Trump. But he would soon use numerous opportunities to diss McCain — usually without naming him — by calling out the senator's "thumbs-down" gesture that sank the bill.
This final act by McCain propelled Trump’s hatred of him to new depths. As McCain was dying of brain cancer, Trump increased his ugly personal attacks on him, urging crowds to boo and ridicule the dying national hero. Trump issued insincere statements wishing McCain the best, but the hypocrisy in them was evident. Trump continued to attack McCain even after McCain’s death, in a remarkable example of vindictiveness. Such attacks were often not well-received:
Trump was not invited to McCain’s funeral, by the way. Trump later complained that he had not been thanked (!) for the funeral, an event which he had very little to do with and which did not require his permission.
And of course, while the rest of political Washington was mourning McCain’s death, Trump was playing golf and tweeting.
After John McCain’s death in 2018, Trump continued his ugly, petty, spiteful hate campaign, as we have seen already. Trump’s obsession with McCain was such that Trump even resented the flags being at half staff for the fallen war hero. Trump’s almost infinite vindictiveness was also expressed in his childish insistence that the ship named after the late Senator’s father be hidden during Trump’s visit to Japan.
And although Trump denied ever calling John McCain a loser, he is on record as having done so.
Trump also called former President George H. W. Bush a “loser” for being shot down by the Japanese during World War II.
McCain isn’t the only war-hero-turned-Republican-politician Trump is described as having attacked as a loser:
On at least two occasions since becoming president, according to three sources with direct knowledge of his views, Trump referred to former president George H.W. Bush as a “loser” for being shot down by the Japanese as a Navy pilot in World War II.Again, the “I like people who weren’t captured” quote applies here. (Bush wasn’t captured; Trump’s comments suggest he also might not respect people being shot down.) A former senior administration official confirmed to The Post that Trump frequently derided soldiers who were captured and missing in action as “losers.”
Donald J. Trump belittled the parents of a slain Muslim soldier who had strongly denounced Mr. Trump during the Democratic National Convention, saying that the soldier’s father had delivered the entire speech because his mother was not “allowed” to speak.
Mr. Trump’s comments, in an interview with George Stephanopoulos of ABC News that will air on Sunday, drew quick and widespread condemnation and amplified calls for Republican leaders to distance themselves from their presidential nominee. With his implication that the soldier’s mother had not spoken because of female subservience expected in some traditional strains of Islam, his comments also inflamed his hostilities with American Muslims.
Khizr Khan, the soldier’s father, lashed out at Mr. Trump in an interview on Saturday, saying his wife had not spoken at the convention because it was too painful for her to talk about her son’s death.
Mr. Trump, he said, “is devoid of feeling the pain of a mother who has sacrificed her son.”
ITEM: In 2016, Trump lied about having given $1 million to a veterans charity. Media pressure was needed to make Trump actually donate money
ITEM: In 2016, Trump claimed to know more about ISIS than the generals.
ITEM: In October 2017, four U.S. soldiers were killed in an ambush in Niger. There were serious errors made in the planning of the mission. (Strangely, there were not nine investigations into this tragedy, as there were about the Benghazi incident.) Trump couldn’t remember the name of one of the soldiers when he called the man’s widow, Myeshia Johnson. And naturally, he lied about it later.
"I heard him stumbling on trying to remember my husband's name, and that's what hurt me the most, because if my husband is out here fighting for our country and he risked his life for our country, why can't you remember his name?" said Johnson, who had known her husband since she was 6 years old.
"That's what made me upset and cry even more, because my husband was an awesome soldier."
After Myeshia Johnson's interview aired, Trump argued on Twitter today that he said La David Johnson's name "from the beginning" and "without hesitation."
Then Trump added insult to injury:
MIAMI (AP) — President Donald Trump told the widow of a soldier killed in an ambush in Niger that her husband “knew what he signed up for,” according to a Florida congresswoman who says she heard part of the conversation on speakerphone.
Rep. Frederica Wilson said she was in the car with Myeshia Johnson on Tuesday on the way to Miami International Airport to meet the body of Johnson’s husband, Sgt. La David Johnson, when Trump called.
When asked by Miami station WPLG if she indeed heard Trump say that she answered: “Yeah, he said that. To me, that is something that you can say in a conversation, but you shouldn’t say that to a grieving widow.” She added: “That’s so insensitive.”
ITEM: From 2018, via Independent:
The US Army has been abruptly discharging immigrant recruits and reservists who enlisted through a programme that promised them a path to citizenship, it has emerged.
Some of the recruits said they were given no reason for their discharge. Others, after pressing for an explanation, were told they were considered security risks because they have relatives abroad or because the Defence Department had not completed background checks on them…
It is unclear how many service members who enlisted through the immigrant recruitment programme have been thrown out of the army because of their status.
However, immigration lawyers said they were aware of more than 40 enlistees who have been expelled from the forces in recent weeks, jeopardising their futures in the US.
More than 5,000 immigrants were recruited into the programme in 2016, with an estimated 10,000 currently serving. Most enter the army, but some also go into other military branches.
You want a bet who was behind that? And Military Times added this:
As many as 11,800 currently serving in the U.S. military are dealing with a spouse or family member who is facing deportation, a national immigration advocacy group announced Friday.
Again, can you smell the stench of Stephen Miller?
ITEM: Trump used American service personnel as a political prop in his racist “anti-Caravan” nonsense in 2018, causing them to miss a treasured brief holiday with their families:
...Trump on Tuesday said people should not feel bad for U.S. troops who are spending Thanksgiving at the southern border because they are “tough people” who are proud to defend the country."Don’t worry," Trump told reporters at the White House regarding the troops, adding, "these are tough people.""You're worried about the Thanksgiving holiday for them, they're so proud to be representing our country on the border," he said.
ITEM: In November 2018 TRUMP CANCELED HIS VISIT to Aisne-Marne American Cemetery and Memorial near Paris, a visit meant to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War.
He canceled because it was raining. (The cemetery was only about an hour away by car if Trump didn’t want to fly there.) Trump’s decision was not well-received:
Saturday's rainout of President Donald Trump's visit to a World War I cemetery is drawing catcalls from critics, including Winston Churchill's grandson.
"They died with their face to the foe and that pathetic inadequate Donald Trump couldn’t even defy the weather to pay his respects to The Fallen," said Nicholas Soames, Churchill's grandson and a member of British Parliament.
The White House said it canceled Trump's trip to Aisne-Marne American Cemetery and Memorial near Paris "due to scheduling and logistical difficulties caused by the weather."
Despite the rain, an American delegation led by Chief of Staff General John Kelly and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joe Dunford still attended the event.
Critics pointed out world leaders like Emmanuel Macron of France, Angela Merkel of Germany, and Justin Trudeau of Canada managed to attend events Saturday despite the rain.
This is the cemetery that Trump said was full of “losers”. Can you imagine—CAN YOU IMAGINE—what Fox “News” and the rest of the Radical Right propaganda machine would have said had Barack Obama done that?
ITEM: On 12 November 2018 Trump blew off the traditional trip to Arlington National Cemetery to mark Veterans Day. The excuse again? Light rain. Trump didn’t want to look disheveled.
But that doesn’t mean Trump was idle. No, no! He kept busy:
Instead of spending his Monday marking Veterans Day, Trump has instead been tweeting conspiracy theories about the midterm elections, baselessly claiming that Democrats are forging ballots in a closely watched Florida recount.
That’s right, folks! He spent the day tweeting. AGAIN: Can you imagine the uproar if Barack Obama had done that?
ITEM: On Thanksgiving 2018, Trump called deployed American troops to express how thankful he was for himself:
The US president called American troops deployed overseas and took the opportunity to congratulate himself on what a great job he had done in running the country so far.
He told them that “the country is so much stronger” now that he is in office - so much so that “people don’t believe it".When asked what he was thankful for, he said "his family", but added: “I made a tremendous difference in this country.
A newly released report by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has once again made several suggestions on reducing the national budget, and some of the budget cuts would affect over 240,000 disabled veterans. According to many budget pundits, it appears the cuts will take place starting in 2020.
The new CBO report proposes dropping over 240,000 disabled veterans from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Individual Unemployability (IU) compensation program by 2020. The cuts could save $47.6 billion in the next 10 years.
ITEM: Trump called U.S. generals “dopes” and “babies”:
At a briefing in 2017, U.S. military leaders were attempting to educate Trump on the basics of foreign and defense policy in various areas of the world. Among those present were Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, Director of the National Economic Council Gary Cohn, and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. At one point Trump erupted:
“I want to win,” he said. “We don’t win any wars anymore . . . We spend $7 trillion, everybody else got the oil and we’re not winning anymore.”
Trump by now was in one of his rages. He was so angry that he wasn’t taking many breaths. All morning, he had been coarse and cavalier, but the next several things he bellowed went beyond that description. They stunned nearly everyone in the room, and some vowed that they would never repeat them. Indeed, they have not been reported until now.
“I wouldn’t go to war with you people,” Trump told the assembled brass.
Addressing the room, the commander in chief barked, “You’re a bunch of dopes and babies.”
For a president known for verbiage he euphemistically called “locker room talk,” this was the gravest insult he could have delivered to these people, in this sacred space. The flag officers in the room were shocked. Some staff began looking down at their papers, rearranging folders, almost wishing themselves out of the room. A few considered walking out. They tried not to reveal their revulsion on their faces, but questions raced through their minds. “How does the commander in chief say that?” one thought. “What would our worst adversaries think if they knew he said this?”
We have already seen in Trump a portrait of an ignorant, selfish, draft-dodging coward with delusions of grandeur, a walking cancerous tumor of a human being who disrespected those who showed genuine heroism and competence. In our final installment, we will address the worst of Trump’s lies and some of the very worst of his actions.
TRUMP LIE: That he “rebuilt” a “depleted” military. Trump repeatedly has asserted that he “rebuilt” the military at a cost of $2.5 trillion, primarily invested in new equipment.
Politifact is on the case:
The Pentagon spent roughly $419 billion on procurement through the first three fiscal years of Trump’s presidency, and Congress appropriated about $143.5 billion more in the spending bill Trump signed for the 2020 fiscal year, bringing that total to about $562.5 billion.
The rest of the defense dollars over the last four years have been directed toward research and development, military personnel, and operation and maintenance costs, among other things.
Experts also noted that the bulk of the $2.5 trillion would have been spent anyway, regardless of who was president. (My emphasis)
"Most of that money was going to be spent under Obama," said Michael O’Hanlon, a senior fellow in foreign policy at the Brookings Institution. "Trump’s net increases have been about $100 billion each year, or $400 billion total compared with earlier expectations."
The administration’s scaled-up defense spending has helped make troops and equipment more ready for combat, O’Hanlon said. But overall, Trump’s claim of a total rebuild is "hyperbole."
"Most weapons are the same as before," O’Hanlon said. "There is more continuity than change in defense policy from Obama to Trump."
FactCheck.org is on the case as well:
At times, [Trump] mentions the figure for the defense budgets without stipulating what specifically the money bought. “I’ve rebuilt our military. I spent two and a half trillion dollars. Nobody else did,” he told Fox News on June 11. (As we explained, Obama did indeed approve budgets totaling more than that.)
But other times, he has made the false claim about all of the funding going for equipment, or “new planes, ships, submarines, tanks, missiles, rockets — anything you can think of.”
Todd Harrison, director of defense budget analysis at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told us when Trump has claimed $2-plus trillion was spent on military equipment, that’s “absolutely untrue.”
“What we spend on military equipment is a fraction of the defense budget,” Harrison said.
The Washington Post weighs in, too.
There have been times when President Trump has uttered a talking point so silly that we simply have tossed it into our database of Trump’s false and misleading claims. But then it keeps coming back, like a zombie, usually during the president’s campaign rallies…
But now the president actually used this misleading claim — that he has invested more than $2 trillion in the military — in a commencement address at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. So here’s a quick fact check and a Pinocchio rating…
The president is exaggerating his “investment” in the military, especially when he suggests that he has spent more than $2 trillion on new equipment. It’s a good thing that he not using a completely invented number, but we hope we’re not grading on a Trump curve. He earns Three — that’s with a T — Pinocchios.
TRUMP LIE: The military was “out of ammunition” when he took office.
Vox has the goods:
“When I took over our military, we did not have ammunition,” Trump said. “I was told by a top general, maybe the top of them all, ‘Sir, I’m sorry sir, we don’t have ammunition.’ I said, I will never let that happen to another president.”… [A “Sir” story. Trump is famous for them.]
In reality, the United States spent $611 billion on the military in 2016. Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), a veteran who serves on the House Armed Services Committee and was first elected to Congress in 2016, noted Trump’s comments were “not true.”
“I get briefings as a member of the House Armed Services Committee on our munitions stockpile all over the world,” Gallego tweeted. “We have never run out of ammunition.”
There were some shortages. But the reason for them is interesting:
According to military leaders, there was a shortfall in certain kinds of munitions, particularly precision-guided bombs, late in the Obama presidency and early in the Trump presidency -- after the US used tens of thousands of these munitions in the campaign against ISIS in Iraq and Syria.Obama administration Defense Secretary Ash Carter said in February 2016: "We've recently been hitting ISIL with so many GPS-guided smart bombs and laser-guided rockets that we are starting to run low on the ones that we use against terrorists the most. So we're investing $1.8 billion in (fiscal year 2017) to buy over 45,000 more of them."
In other words, Obama was raining so much hell down on ISIS that we were beginning to run low a little bit.
TRUMP LIE: That he gave the military their first pay raise in years.
From Military Times:
“You haven’t gotten [a raise] in more than 10 years. More than 10 years!” he told a crowd of applauding service members during his remarks at Al Asad Air Base in Iraq on Wednesday. “And we got you a big one. I got you a big one.”
Trump has repeatedly claimed that troops hadn’t seen a pay raise during President Barack Obama’s time in the White House. In fact, troops have seen a pay raise of at least 1 percent every year for more than 30 years. [My emphasis.]
The president also appeared to claim he pushed for a 10 percent pay raise in 2019, even though the actual rate his administration publicly supported and eventually got approved was only 2.6 percent.
“[People said] we could make it 3 percent. We could make it 2 percent. We could make it 4 percent," he told the troops. “I said, ‘No, make it 10 percent. Make it more than 10 percent.’ Because it’s been a long time. It’s been more than 10 years. That’s a long time.”
The 2018 military pay raise, approved in Trump’s first year in office, was 2.4 percent. It was the largest the military had seen in eight years, but followed a federal formula matching the expected rise in civilian sector wages for the year.
TRUMP LIE: That he pushed the Veterans Choice Act.
Trump said he passed a private-sector health care program, Veterans Choice, after failed attempts by past presidents for the last “45 years.” That’s not true. The Choice program, which allows veterans to see doctors outside the government-run VA system at taxpayer expense, was first passed in 2014 under President Barack Obama.
Trump’s VA secretary, Robert Wilkie, also is distorting the facts. Faulting previous “bad leadership” at VA, Wilkie suggested it was his own efforts that improved waiting times at VA medical centers and brought new offerings of same-day mental health service. The problem: The study cited by Wilkie on wait times covers the period from 2014 to 2017, before Wilkie took the helm as VA secretary. Same-day mental health services at VA were started during the Obama administration.
FACT: JOHN McCAIN AND BERNIE SANDERS PUSHED FOR THE LEGISLATION. TRUMP HAS LIED ABOUT THIS MORE THAN 150 TIMES.
It’s just disgusting.
Trump uses the military like a prop. His ludicrous proposal for a military parade and his use of the military for his Fourth of July celebration are prime examples, but there are others, as laid out in this Op-Ed, The Military is Not a Political Prop. NOTE: Trump did not want wounded and disabled veterans at his parades. “Nobody wants to see that”, Trump reportedly said.
Trump betrayed the Kurds and put our troops at risk.
- When Trump ordered US troops to abandon the Kurds in Northern Syria, Turkish forces stormed the newly unprotected area.
- Within days of the Americans abandoning their bases, "reporters" from the Russian defence ministry's TV channel began broadcasting from there.
- This is an intelligence (and propaganda) gift to Russia.
- Moscow will carefully examine the abandoned bases for communications infrastructure, construction materials and techniques, and battlefield medical equipment.
- Each new piece of knowledge will improve their understanding of Western tactics, techniques and operations, helping to develop countermeasures for future conflicts.
At a gathering last Saturday night of military and intelligence veterans, one topic shrouded the room: President Trump’s decision to abandon Kurdish fighters in Syria who had fought and died to help America destroy the Islamic State.
“It’s a dagger to the heart to walk away from people who shed blood for us,” one former top CIA official who attended the black-tie dinner told me later. A retired four-star general who was there said the same thing: Trump’s retreat was an “unsound, morally indefensible act” and a “disgrace” to America and the soldiers who serve this country.This sense of anguish was pervasive among those attending the event, several attendees said. It was an annual dinner honoring the Office of Strategic Services, the secret World War II commando group that was a forerunner of today’s CIA and Special Operations forces. The event celebrated the military alliances that have always been at the center of American power. It was a bitter anniversary this year.
The Turks brutally attacked the Kurds, attacks which included the use of white phosphorous weapons. I was going to include a video of a Kurdish child screaming in agony after having been subjected to such an attack. I couldn’t bear to look at it for very long. It’s too terrible.
How can ANYONE support this bastard?
From CNN:
A wide range of American military personnel and defense officials are expressing a deep sense of frustration and anger at the Trump administration's refusal to support Syrian Kurds facing a Turkish military assault, over half a dozen US military and defense officials have told CNN.
Several US military and defense officials, including personnel deployed to Syria, expressed dismay at how the Trump administration has handled the situation.One US official said it is well known that some senior US military officials are livid at how the Kurds have been treated given their role in helping the US fight ISIS.Another senior American defense official told CNN that Trump's failure to more forcefully oppose the invasion or do anything to stop the attacks on the Kurds meant Trump had given Turkey a green light, despite the administration's public stance that it had consistently opposed the operation.
Trump has done NOTHING about the fact that Vladimir Putin has put bounties on the heads of our soldiers in Afghanistan
TRUMP IS STILL OVERLOOKING RUSSIA’S OFFER OF BOUNTIES FOR THE MURDER OF U.S. TROOPS
Trump isn’t just dishonoring fallen U.S. soldiers, he’s helping to see that more soldiers get killed by refusing to address the fact that Russia is paying bounties for the murder of U.S. forces in Afghanistan. It’s clear that Trump was full aware of what was going on, it’s also clear that he just does not care. Just so long as any troops wounded by Russia don’t come back wounded and make his parades unsightly. After all, they knew what they signed up for.
There are so many other items that could be mentioned. The vile treatment of the Vindman brothers for their acts of conscience in exposing Trump’s criminality is one example. Trump’s callous dismissal of the suffering of those with traumatic brain injuries would be another. But in the end, let’s listen to General James Mattis, who was Trump’s first Defense Secretary. Writing in the period of civil unrest this summer, Mattis said:
“Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people—does not even pretend to try. Instead, he tries to divide us,” Mattis writes. “We are witnessing the consequences of three years of this deliberate effort. We are witnessing the consequences of three years without mature leadership. We can unite without him, drawing on the strengths inherent in our civil society. This will not be easy, as the past few days have shown, but we owe it to our fellow citizens; to past generations that bled to defend our promise; and to our children.”
He goes on to contrast the American ethos of unity with Nazi ideology. “Instructions given by the military departments to our troops before the Normandy invasion reminded soldiers that ‘The Nazi slogan for destroying us … was “Divide and Conquer.” Our American answer is “In Union there is Strength.”’ We must summon that unity to surmount this crisis—confident that we are better than our politics.”
FOR FURTHER READING: Trump says he supports the troops. His record suggests otherwise.
Trump is the most anti-military president we’ve had — and he doesn’t even know it
Another list with many items I didn’t have time to include.
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