G.O.P. draft dodger declares himself "a war hero"

[BoRaGard]

Republicons appear to be ok with this. Are they going to change the definition of war hero to include all draft dodgers? Or is it just for rich republicon shirkers? Do you have to be named in the Epstein files to qualify? What about deserters? What's the G.O.P. "hero policy" on that?

And what about our veterans who served the nation honorably? Are the repubes still ok with their draft-dodging golf cheat calling them "suckers and losers"? I'm not.

The republicon sense of patriotism and 'honor" is so sick and twisted.

"..Trump suggested on Tuesday that he's a war hero, telling conservative radio show host Mark Levin that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is one and adding, "I guess I am, too."

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-suggests-hes-war-hero-mark-levin-2116010

[dalton99a]

1. He'll give himself a Medal of Honor very soon - maybe 6 or 7 Medals of Honor

to be displayed next to his red hats

[BoRaGard]

2. The republicon felon said vaginas are like land mines

The republicon felon claimed that avoiding sex disease was his most heroic act
and he trashes those who served the nation

"In an unearthed interview from 1997, Donald Trump claimed he was a "brave soldier" for avoiding STDs during his single years in the late '90s.

"It's amazing, I can't even believe it. I've been so lucky in terms of that whole world, it is a dangerous world out there. It's like Vietnam, sort of. It is my personal Vietnam. I feel like a great and very brave solider,"

https://people.com/politics/trump-boasted-of-avoiding-stds-while-dating-vaginas-are-landmines-it-was-my-personal-vietnam/

[Harker]

5. And his Noble Pees Prize.

[Emile]

3. I heard he wants a Purple Heart for an ear scratch.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

4. "Im a war hero too", "I mean I sent those planes"

[newdeal2]

6. Replace hero with criminal

And I 100% agree.

[sinkingfeeling]

7. No, both of you are "war criminals".

[BoRaGard]

8. Not one republicon objects to this demeaning of our real war heroes

Not a one of them will stand up and speak out to defend the men and women who have been wounded or died in the defense of the USA, or who have spent years in grueling conditions to keep America free.

Not one republicon will speak up to defend our real war heroes.

Disgustipating

[mitch96]

9. I think the term is "stolen valor"...nt

[ElementaryPenguin]

10. Suckers and Losers

[BoRaGard]

11. Honor America's true War Heroes

Not the fake republicon one: you know, the sex criminal felon who cheats at golf and calls our veterans and war dead "suckers and losers."

Real American Heroes
https://www.vehiclesforveterans.org/famous-war-heroes/

[BoRaGard]

12. Another real American hero: Pat Tillman

republicons have gone out of their way to disrespect this man,
while they fall to their knees for their War Zero.



20 years later, Pat Tillman's platoon mates still fighting for accountability

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/42079096/twenty-years-later-new-review-pat-tillman-death-goes-decisions-led-fratricide-army-ensuing-damage-control-effort

[BoRaGard]

13. G.O.P. 'Zero' made our honorable soldiers get on their knees for Putin

Americas enemy and an official International War Criminal who has murdered thousands of families and children.

Disgustingly dishonorable.
The entire freaking republicon party in cowed silence just fine with this.

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[LetMyPeopleVote]

14. MaddowBlog-The problem(s) with Trump declaring himself a 'war hero'

If Trump is looking for actual war heroes, I might refer him to some of the people whose service he denigrated both before and after taking office.

The problem(s) with Trump declaring himself a ‘war hero’
If Trump is looking for actual war heroes, I might refer him to some of the people whose service he denigrated both before and after taking office.https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/problems-trump-declaring-war-hero-rcna226096

— Philly Joe (@joehick58.bsky.social) 2025-08-20T21:13:37.821Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/problems-trump-declaring-war-hero-rcna226096

It’s against this backdrop that Trump came up with a new label for himself. Politico reported:

U.S. President Donald Trump called himself a ‘war hero’ on Tuesday for approving airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities. Calling into conservative host Mark Levin’s radio show, Trump said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was ‘a war hero ‘cause we worked together.’

“He’s a war hero. I guess I am, too,” Trump said. “Nobody cares. But I am, too. I mean, I sent those planes.”

Trump calls himself a war hero for his actions against Iran:

"He's a war hero. I guess I am too. Nobody cares, but I am too. I mean, I sent those planes."

— FactPost (@factpostnews.bsky.social) 2025-08-20T15:12:41.216Z

.....Let’s unpack this one because I think the larger issue is important.

First, while it’s true that Trump ordered a military strike, under any sensible definition of the phrase, a “war hero” refers to someone who acted heroically during a war. Giving the Pentagon a green light for a mission is important, but it does not a hero make.

Second, if Trump is looking for actual war heroes, I might refer him to some of the people whose service he denigrated both before and after taking office. (Although he repeatedly denied ever calling fallen American soldiers “losers” and “suckers,” his own onetime White House chief of staff, retired Gen. John Kelly, said he heard the president make the comments.)

Finally, if Trump wanted to be a war hero, he had an opportunity to serve during the war in Vietnam, but he instead sought and received five deferments — claiming he had “bone spurs.”

He nevertheless boasted to voters that he “felt” like he’d served in the military because his parents sent him to a military-themed boarding school as a teenager. He later claimed, in apparent seriousness, that his expensive prep school gave him “more training militarily than a lot of the guys that go into the military.”

[madinmaryland]

15. Did he grow a new set of bone spurs?

[BoRaGard]

16. .

[Prairie Gates]

17. This is up there with his mockery of the disabled reporter in terms of shit that should

have destroyed him.

His father paid a doctor to give him a phony diagnosis so he could dodge the draft. It is a quintessential case of "fortunate son" draft dodging: no principled draft resistance, no real concern for the war - just absolute selfishness and refusal to put himself at risk. He went to military high school and to this day claims that he was such a good athlete that he might have been a professional baseball player had things gone slightly differently. He was also up for the draft in June 1968, which means he almost certainly would have been drafted and would almost certainly have landed in the Republic of Vietnam in late fall / early winter 1968, just in time for the bloodiest year of the war.

He's a coward, pure and simple.

War hero? The absolute nerve of him. And the absolute disgrace of his supporters to allow him to claim that mantle. This is stolen valor on steroids, since most stolen valor cases aren't paired with aggressive cowardice and draft evasion.