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Donald Trump’s “personal Vietnam”

Donald Trump dodged the Vietnam War, but he has said that he feels “like a great and very brave soldier” who endured “my personal Vietnam”: risking sexually transmitted diseases!

From George Will, Republicans: Save your party, don’t give to Trump – The Washington Post:

Yes, as Republicans should remember when their convention opens in less than a month, on the one-year anniversary of Donald Trump’s disparagement of John McCain as unheroic because he was “captured.” McCain was captured (with a broken leg and two broken arms) when North Vietnamese shot down his plane. He chose extra years of torture, refusing to leave when his torturers wanted to release him because he was an admiral’s son.

Trump says, however, that he, too, has been “very brave” by ignoring the danger of venereal disease during his sexual adventures: “It is a dangerous world out there — it’s scary, like Vietnam. Sort of like the Vietnam era. It is my personal Vietnam, I feel like a great and very brave soldier.”

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Trump’s comments were made in 1997 during one of his appearances on Howard Stern’s radio show. See this. [Caution: extreme vulgarity]

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