“He’s not a war hero,” Trump said in 2015 while running for the Republican nomination for president.
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Nor did he set his campaign back by attacking the parents of Humayun Khan, an Army captain who was killed in Iraq in 2004.
Trump remained fixated on McCain, one of the few prominent Republicans to continue criticizing him after he won the nomination.
According to sources with knowledge of the president’s views, he seems to genuinely not understand why Americans treat former prisoners of war with respect.
Trump finds the notion of military service difficult to understand, and the idea of volunteering to serve especially incomprehensible.
In the 1990s, Trump said his efforts to avoid contracting sexually transmitted diseases constituted his “personal Vietnam. »