‘I always felt that I was in the military’

Those remarks about John McCain not being a true war hero might come back to bite Donald Trump in the ass sooner than expected. Of his time there, Trump said the school gave him “more training militarily than a lot of the guys that go into the military”. Right, Donald. In 1969, I tried a version of the same thing with my local draft board: I said that I was in the ROTC for two years, and I felt like I served. Both J.D. Salinger, author of “Catcher in the Rye” and H. Norman Schwarzkopf, commanding general of Operation Desert Storm, both attended Philadelphia-area Valley Forge Military Academy, a school similar to Trump’s alma mater. Advocating to “bomb the hell” out of Iraq’s oil fields to cripple ISIS, Trump often speaks about a tough military while campaigning for the Republican nomination for president.

If any other politician, presidential candidate or no, made a claim that so blatantly yet obliviously spat in the faces of the fearless men and women who serve in the United States Armed Forces, it would be career suicide. Hopefully, if anything, this is merely just a sign that, when it comes down to it, people really don’t take him seriously.

During an interview for the book, Mr. Trump removed a shoe to show the author the cause of his medical deferment. “Heel spurs”, he said.

After saying that Vietnam War POW, Sen.

Trump relished his five years at the military academy and bemoaned the dwindling enrollment at such schools.

The school-New York Military Academy-was founded in 1889, and according to its Web site, boasts a 100 percent college placement as well as a campus with a “clean, small town, fresh air atmosphere”. Trump maintains that “it was a real way of life at military academy” in 1964.

Trump’s reputation for self-indulgence is well known (the helicopters, the planes, the penthouses).

After the wife of his chauffeur had a baby, Trump delivered a auto seat to the hospital, according to the report. But “Never Enough” unearths decades-old gems that might otherwise be lost to history. Trump is not in favor of it.