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Before December 26th, 2018, Donald Trump had never traveled to a warzone or an overseas military base. He is the first president to refuse to visit the troops for nearly two years. He didn’t spend last Christmas or this Christmas with the military. People noticed. Articles were written about how Trump is a stupid chickenhawk who only wants to hang out with Deplorables at his sad little Nazi rallies. So instead of digging in his heels, Trump actually got off his lard ass and traveled to Iraq on Wednesday, the day after Christmas.

Now that the trip has been made, I wonder what took him so long – military personnel are ALWAYS going to be a good crowd for any president. I have no idea how many of these soldiers voted for Trump – probably half, maybe more? – but all of them were happy to see him, and he got to pretend to be at one of his little Nazi rallies and act like they were all there to edify and glorify him personally. Melania was there too – the cameras caught her several times looking like she could straight up murder someone.

Hilariously, Trump’s first overseas visit to the troops came on the same day that the New York Times published an investigative piece on how Trump dodged the Vietnam War draft. According to the NYT, a podiatrist who rented office space from Trump’s father, Fred Trump, was the doctor who “diagnosed” Donald Trump with “bone spurs.” As in, Fred Trump was a well-connected man and he asked one of his tenants to give his son a shady medical diagnosis to avoid the draft. The podiatrist’s daughters claim that their dad did it as a favor to Fred Trump. Draft-dodging Bigly Bonespurs.

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