Today, June 14, is not only Flag Day, it’s also the anniversary of the founding of the United States Army. Oh yeah, and it’s Donald Trump’s birthday, too.
Donald Trump is running for president because he wants to “Make America Great Again.” Here are seven of his most patriotic moments.
1) The time he didn’t serve in the Vietnam War
Trump has refused to elaborate on why he never served in the Vietnam War, but has said he received a medical deferment in 1968 (he was 22 at the time) for “minor” bone spurs in his heels.
2) The time he called John McCain a loser for getting captured during the Vietnam War
Shortly after announcing his candidacy for president in 2015, Trump lashed out at Sen. John McCain, who served more than five years as a prisoner of war after his plane was shot down in Vietnam, after McCain called Trump supporters “crazies.”
“He’s not a war hero,” Trump said of McCain. “He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.”
3) The time he said his “personal Vietnam” was sleeping around in the 1980s
Trump said in a 1997 interview with Howard Stern that sleeping around in the 1980s and putting himself at risk to sexually transmitted disease was his “personal Vietnam,” and the experience made him feel “like a great and very brave soldier.”
4) The time he played soccer
Donald Trump played on the varsity soccer team in high school, records show. Soccer is a fundamentally un-American sport, and is especially difficult for those suffering from bone spurs in their heels.
5) The time he hugged an American flag
6) The time he wished the “haters and losers” a happy 9/11 anniversary
“@realDonaldTrump: I would like to extend my best wishes to all, even the haters and losers, on this special date, September 11th.”
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 12, 2013
7) The time he invited a terrorist-supporting dictator to camp out on his lawn
Trump happily invited the now-deceased Libyan dictator Muammar al-Qaddafi to pitch a tent on his estate in Westchester, New York in 2009, when Qaddafi was in town for an assembly of the United Nations, the despite the dictators support for terrorists, including those who carried out the bombing of a Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in which nearly 200 Americans were killed.
Qaddafi didn’t end up staying at Trump’s property, but his representatives paid Trump at least $150,000; they also turned down Trump’s personal request for a meeting with the terrorist-supporting dictator.
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