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American politician, military officer, and presidential candidate (1936–2018)
Donald Trump received multiple draft deferments during the Vietnam-era Selective Service process — four for college and a fifth for a medical diagnosis (bone spurs) — and therefore did not serve in Vi...
Conservative activist groups and right‑wing commentators have used "RINO" (Republican In Name Only) as a political cudgel against many Republican officeholders since 2010, frequently targeting senator...
Donald Trump received five draft deferments during the Vietnam War era: four student (educational) deferments while in college and a later medical deferment for bone spurs that made him 4‑F, which tog...
Donald Trump publicly disparaged John McCain’s Vietnam-era military service in 2015, saying He also accused McCain of having “done nothing” for veterans and called him a “loser,” remarks that produced...
Donald Trump received five draft deferments during the Vietnam War era: four student deferments and one medical deferment for bone spurs, and he was assigned a high lottery number that made him unlike...
’s most widely reported, verbatim comment about ’s wartime service — made at a 2015 campaign event and repeated in later coverage — was: “He’s not a war hero. He was a war hero because he was captured...
’s remark that avoiding sexually transmitted diseases was his “personal ” originated in interviews he gave to in the 1990s and resurfaced in 2016 as reporters and critics highlighted the comparison to...
President Donald Trump’s most widely cited, specific comment about a war veteran is the line made in reference to Senator John McCain, a Vietnam-era prisoner of war; that exact wording appears in repo...
Donald Trump publicly criticized John McCain’s military service and status as a prisoner of war, saying “He’s a war hero because he was captured… I like people that weren’t captured,” and calling McCa...
received five Vietnam‑era draft deferments—four student deferments and a later medical deferment for in his heels—which together kept him out of Vietnam, and official records confirming the deferments...
Donald J. Trump has been reported to have made multiple disparaging remarks about U.S. service members, including specific lines that referred to captured or killed veterans as “losers” and “suckers,”...
The U.S. Constitution requires a president to be a "natural born Citizen," at least 35 years old, and a U.S. resident for 14 years . Legal and scholarly sources agree that "natural born" means citizen...
Donald Trump’s most-cited 2015 remarks about Senator John McCain were that made while criticizing McCain’s Vietnam-era POW status; those lines have been repeatedly cited as damaging to Trump’s standin...
The assembled analyses identify two competing narratives: one set of sources documents multiple instances where Donald Trump publicly military service and veterans across several years, while another ...
Reporting beginning with a 2020 Atlantic story alleges that privately called American war dead “losers” and “suckers,” primarily in reference to a canceled 2018 visit to the near Paris and to Marines ...
Donald J. Trump received five draft deferments during the Vietnam era — four for college and a fifth in 1968 recorded as a medical deferment for heel bone spurs that made him ineligible for service . ...
Donald Trump has been reported to make a series of controversial remarks about U.S. military personnel and veterans that span both alleged private insults and public attacks; some of the most prominen...
Determining the "most objectionable" action by Donald Trump remains subjective, as multiple sources highlight a range of severe controversies without consensus on a single top offense. emerge as frequ...
The Constitution’s Article II natural‑born‑citizen requirement was adopted in 1787 to limit foreign influence on the presidency and has repeatedly produced legal and scholarly disputes over its origin...
Three lines of verification have emerged around insulted soldiers: a fact check that directly debunked a circulated video as altered and using a voice‑artist impression , legacy fact‑checking of relat...