Posted on 09/08/2015 7:34:39 PM PDT by familyop
After undercutting John McCain's war hero status and brushing his own Vietnam deferments under the rug, Donald Trump has once again mythologized his own time in the military in hopes of bolstering his presidential campaign. The funniest part: someone out there buys it.
According to a new report from The New York Times, Trump recently told biographer Michael D'Antonio that he "always felt that I was in the military" because of his education at a military-themed boarding school. As the Times writes:
According to the book, Mr. Trump attended the New York Military Academy after years of rowdy and rebellious behavior at Kew-Forest, a more traditional prep school in Queens. Mr. Trump once recalled giving a teacher at Kew-Forest a black eye "because I didn't think he knew anything about music." He arrived at the military academy — where tuition now reaches $31,000 a year — for eighth grade in 1959 and remained for high school. Like all students at the Cornwall-on-Hudson, N.Y., campus, he wore a uniform, participated in marching drills and was expected to conform to a hierarchy imposed by instructors, some of whom had served in the military.
Trump adds that time spent at the New York Military Academy was "more training militarily than a lot of the guys that go into the military" and that "when I look at myself in the first grade and I look at myself now, I'm basically the same. The temperament is not that different." We can't argue with that.
Hit piece by a magazine written for girly men.
Yawn. Snore.
nothingburger article
I’ll bet it was a lot of discipline that Trump had to maintain in his Military Academy days.
And it did him some good.
I saw this story earlier, and I expected it to be posted at some time.
Well, it was a “uuuuge” military school.
This is a nonsense hit piece from the left.
They keep trying, but the attacks are gettng so lame it’s funny.
No, Mr. Trump—going to Military School is NOT the same as being in the service.
If he gets the nomination, I’ll have to hold my nose to vote for him.
Esquire?
Penthouse letters have more credibility.
Let’s get this guy’s address to send him some strawberries to replace the ones he thinks were stolen.
If Trump made a career in military, there would be 100,000 less jobs in United States, because that many people have been employed by Trump over the years.
If Trump made a career in military, US economy would be Billions of $$ poorer. There was no shortage of soldiers during the wars, only shortage of smart leaders who initiated stupid wars of Vietnam and Iraq.
Trump/Carson 2016.
Trump doesn’t say that, the author of the hit piece does.
No one is going to take it seriously. It doesn't mean anything.
No where in the article does Trump insist that military school is the same as serving in the military. All he said was he felt like he was in the military when he attended military school. This is a big nothing yawner.
Did they make up his words? If so then Trump needs to go after them. If it is what he said, then ahhh no Mr. Trump school is not like serving it isn’t even like boot camp and if you are half as smart as people make you out to be then you should have know that.
After five years of a military prep school, most anyone would identify with the military and feel like they'd had some degree of military experience. The statement can also be viewed positively as from someone who identifies with and respects the military.
Not the negative some probably want it to be for Trump.
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