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I didn’t write this, complete with citations but the author said anyone can repost:

o attack a Vietnam veteran (June 6, 2019) https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-says-mueller-made-such-a-fool-of-himself-in-last-weeks-public-appearance/2019/06/06/96dd8f9c-885f-11e9-a491-25df61c78dc4_story.html Trump made his 2nd wife, Marla Maples, sign a prenup that would have cut off all child support if Tiffany joined the military (reported June 4th, 2019) https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-prenup-melania-everything-we-know-2019-4#the-agreement-also-stipulated-that-trump-would-stop-the-100000-child-support-payments-for-maples-young-daughter-tiffany-when-she-turned-21-or-if-she-got-a-full-time-job-enlisted-in-the-military-or-joined-the-peace-corps-11 On May 27, 2019, Trump turned away US military from his Memorial Day speech because they were from the destroyer USS John S. McCain https://www.businessinsider.com/uss-john-mccain-sailors-were-turned-away-from-trump-speech-2019-5 Trump ordered the USS John McCain out of sight during his visit to Japan (May 15, 2019). The ship's name was subsequently covered. (May 27, 2019) https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/446076-white-house-asked-for-uss-john-mccain-to-be-out-of-sight-during Trump's admin did nothing to fix the purge of 200,000 vets' healthcare applications (due to known administrative errors within VA’s enrollment system) even after a congressional testimony to point out the problem. (reported on May 13, 2019) https://www.snopes.com/news/2019/06/07/trump-admin-va-applications/ Under Trump's Admin, ICE deported a spouse of fallen Army soldier killed in Afghanistan, leaving their daughter parentless (April 16, 2019) https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/immigration/2019/04/15/ice-deports-gonzalez-spouse-u-s-soldier-killed-afghanistan/3477332002/ On March 20, 2019, Trump complained that a deceased war hero didn't thank him for his funeral https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47642335 Between 12/22/2018, and 1/25/2019, Trump refused to sign his party's funding bill, which shut down the government, forcing the Coast Guard to go without pay, which made service members rely on food pantries. and the generosity of private businesses like USAA and Navy Federal to cover their paychecks. However, his appointees got a $10,000 pay raise https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/trump-continues-retreat-on-government-shutdown-threat-pledges-to-renew-border-control-battle-in-2019/2018/12/20/3143a752-0457-11e9-b6a9-0aa5c2fcc9e4_story.html https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/01/trump-appointees-giant-raises-during-shutdown He banned service members from serving based on gender identity (1/22/2019) https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/13/us/transgender-troops-ban.html He tried to denied female troops access to birth control to limit sexual activity (on-going. Published Jan 18, 2019) https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/us/politics/court-trump-birth-control.html He tried to deport a marine vet who is a U.S.-born citizen (Jan 16, 2019) https://www.npr.org/2019/01/17/686188335/ice-tried-to-deport-this-u-s-citizen-and-marine-veteran When a man was caught swindling veterans pensions for high-interest “cash advances," Trump's Consumer Financial Protection Bureau fined him $1 (Jan 26, 2019) https://theintercept.com/2019/01/26/cfpb-mulvaney-discount/ He called a retired general a 'dog' with a 'big, dumb mouth' (Jan 1, 2019) https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/01/trump-mcchrystal-syria-troops-1077365 He increased privatization of the VA, leading to longer waits and higher taxpayer cost (2018) https://psmag.com/social-justice/privatizing-the-v-a-is-not-cheap https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-administration-plots-costly-private-care-expansion-for-veterans He revealed a covert Seal Team 5 deployment, including names and faces, on Twitter during his visit to Iraq (Dec 26, 2018) https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-s-reveal-seal-team-iraq-could-endanger-its-members-n952521 Trump lied to deployed troops that he gave them a 10% raise (12/26/2018). https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2018/12/27/in-iraq-visit-trump-makes-false-claim-about-military-pay-again/ He tried giving the military a raise that was lower than the standard living adjustment. Congress told him that idea wasn't going to work. Then after giving them the raise that Congress made him, he lied about it pretending that it was larger than Obama's. It wasn't. He fired service members living with HIV just before the 2018 holidays https://time.com/5485126/lawsuit-air-force-discharge-hiv-positive-members/ https://www.lambdalegal.org/news/va_20181219_trump-quietly-starts-firing-service-members-living-with-hiv He tried to slash disability and unemployment benefits for Veterans to $0, and eliminate the unemployability extrascheduler rating (Dec 17, 2018) This means disabled veterans could have seen their annual disability benefits fall from around $35,000 to around $13,000 under Donald Trump's budget proposal to cut "individual unemployability" for disabled veterans who were old enough to receive Social Security payments. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-disabled-veterans-cuts/ He called troops on Thanksgiving and told them he's most thankful for himself (Thanksgiving, 2018) https://www.denverpost.com/2018/11/22/trump-troops-thanksgiving/ medical-deferment-from-vietnam/ He urged Florida to not count deployed military votes (Nov 12, 2018) https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-military-votes-florida/ He canceled an Arlington Cemetery visit on Veterans Day due to light rain (Nov 12, 2018) https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/white-house-decision-cancel-veteran-s-cemetery-france-visit-creates-n934796 While in Europe commemorating the end of WWI, he didn't attend the ceremony at a US cemetery due to the rain -- other world leaders went anyway (Nov 10, 2018) https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/10/trump-cancels-ww1-memorial-at-us-cemetery-in-france-due-to-rain-sparking-twitterstorm.html He used troops as a political prop by sending them on a phantom mission to the border and made them miss Thanksgiving with their families (Oct-Dec, 2018) https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/thousands-of-us-troops-celebrating-thanksgiving-at-the-border/2018/11/21/b6987c00-edd4-11e8-9236-bb94154151d2_story.html Trump changed the GI Bill through his Forever GI Act, causing the VA to miss veteran benefits, including housing allowances. This caused many vets to run out of food and rent. (reported October 7, 2018) https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/12/7/18129508/forever-gi-bill-student-veterans-housing-wilkie Trump doubled the rejection rate for veterans requesting family deportation protections (July 5, 2018) https://www.newsweek.com/trump-doubled-rejection-rate-veterans-requesting-family-deportation-1010571 https://www.npr.org/2019/06/27/736362986/trump-wants-to-withdraw-deportation-protections-for-families-of-active-troops Trump deported active-duty spouses (11,800 military families face this problem as of April 2018) https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2018/04/01/as-many-as-11800-military-families-face-deportation-issues-group-says/ He forgot a fallen soldier's name (below) during a call to his pregnant widow, then attacked her the next day (Oct 23-24, 2017) https://www.militarytimes.com/news/2017/10/23/fallen-soldiers-widow-nothing-to-say-to-trump/ He sent commandos into an ambush due to a lack of intel, and sends contractors to pick them up, resulting in a commando being left behind, tortured, and executed. (Trump approved the mission because Bannon told him Obama didn't have the guts to do it) (Oct 4, 2017) https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/02/17/world/africa/niger-ambush-american-soldiers.html https://apnews.com/cb0d6c63f3ed4415a0bd19e98175f792 Doesn't stand during retreat bugle, continues to talk. "What a nice sound that is. Are they playing that for you [Sean Hannity] or me?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJyGXYq2lJ0 He ordered the discharge of active-duty immigrant troops with good records (2017-present) https://www.npr.org/2018/07/09/626773440/u-s-army-is-discharging-immigrant-recruits-who-were-promised-citizenship On Oct 3, 2016, Trump said vets get PTSD because they aren't strong https://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/trump-veterans-ptsd-not-strong-229050 Trump accepted a Purple Heart from a fan at one of his rallies and said: “I always wanted to get the Purple Heart. This was much easier.” (Aug 2, 2016) https://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/trump-purple-heart-226565 If you know how service members receive purple hearts, then you should also realize how absurd it is for trump to say what he did. Trump attacks Gold Star families: Myeshia Johnson (gold star widow), Khan family (gold star parents) etc. (2016-present) https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/31/us/politics/donald-trump-khizr-khan-wife-ghazala.html Trump sent roughly half of funds raised from a Jan 2016 veterans benefit to the Donald J Trump Foundation instead of veterans charities (the foundation has since been ordered shut because of fraud) (Jan, 2016) https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/07/trump-ordered-to-pay-2-million-to-settle-trump-foundation-suit.html Trump said he doesn't consider POWs heroes because they were caught. He said he prefers people who were not caught (July 18, 2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=541Cg2Jnb8s Trump said having unprotected sex was his own personal Vietnam (1998) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5SqQhqpNm8 Trump dodged the draft 5 times by having a doctor diagnose him with bone spurs. https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2019/02/27/trumps-lawyer-no-basis-for-presidents-

[–]yishengqingwa666 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

At least Trump knows women are real and not a feeling in a man's head.

[–]emptiedriver 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

you are giving him significantly too much credit. He thinks they're a physical object for a man to grab by the pussy, remember?