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Donald Trump: Coward In Chief
Like Countless Thousands of Others, I Served In Vietnam Against My Will — But I Served Nonetheless
— Former Vice President Joe Biden
It’s being widely reported that Trump has called soldiers, airmen, marines and sailors killed and/or wounded in action “losers” and “suckers.” But, this rhetoric is not new or out of character for this obvious coward. Long before his current disparagement of all who, for whatever reason, put their lives on the line for this nation-state, this small and, again, cowardly man has never hidden his putrid opinion of the US military.
In a December 3, 2019 column in the Washington Post, writer Max Boot noted that Trump once called his “ability” to avoid sexually transmitted diseases “my personal Vietnam,” and that by outsmarting, that is, staying at least a step ahead of the gonorrhea and syphilis viruses (the AIDS virus had not yet appeared when he made these disgusting comments), made him “feel like a great and very brave soldier.” Boot entitled his piece “Trump is the Most Anti-Military President We’ve Had…”
On July 9, 1970, I enlisted in the United States Navy. I had just turned 21 in April, and had also dropped out of Indiana University in 1969. I left school…
