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- abruptly ordered the withdrawal of US forces from a base in Syria, abandoning Kurdish allies to be attacked by Turkey?
- attacked a Gold Star family?
- boasted about himself in front of the CIA’s Memorial Wall?
- brought a war widow to tears, then called her account wrong because he had “one of the greatest memories of all time”?
- called avoiding STDs his own “personal Vietnam”?
- called fallen US service members “suckers” and “losers”?
- caused the CIA to extract a high-level informant in the Russian government?
- claimed that past presidents didn’t call families of fallen soldiers, while he had for “virtually everybody”?
- did nothing when Russia likely placed bounties on US soldiers?
- didn’t know about Pearl Harbor?
- dismissed 109 service member’s traumatic brain injuries as “headaches”?
- ended joint defense exercises between the US and South Korea at North Korea’s request?
- got five draft deferments during Vietnam?
- had cadets travel back to campus and undergo quarantine for a speech amid the COVID-19 pandemic?
- misspelled the name of his Secretary of Defense and made multiple false claims in a tweet?
- ordered a drone strike on a senior Iranian official?
- pardoned a soldier convicted of murdering an unarmed and naked Iraqi prisoner?
- pardoned two soldiers convicted of war crimes?
- praised authoritarian Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte?
- railed against new aircraft carriers and their digital deck propulsion system, demanding that they return to “goddamned steam”?
- revealed sensitive information on a US spy satellite in a tweet about Iran?
- revealed special operations tactics and other classified information by providing a detailed description of the raid on ISIS leader al-Baghdadi?
- revealed the presence of US nuclear weapons in Turkey?
- reversed the demotion of and congratulated a Navy SEAL charged with war crimes?
- revoked a rule for reporting on drone strikes?
- said “I always felt I was in the military”?
- said he would “take out” the families of terrorists?
- said it was “too inconvenient” to use a secure phone?
- said of Senator John McCain, “He’s not a war hero…I like people who weren’t captured”?
- said that he would impose torture techniques “a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding?”
- said that his tweets are sufficient notice to Congress for military strikes?
- said that the death of ISIS leader al-Baghdadi was more significant than that of Osama bin Laden?
- said the military would commit war crimes on his order?
- said, “I always wanted to get the Purple Heart, this was much easier,” after being gifted one by a veteran?
- said, “I know more about ISIS than the generals do, believe me”?
- said, “there’s nobody that understands the horror of nuclear better than me”?
- sent a $25,000 personal check to a Gold Star family?
- signed off on a high-risk raid in Yemen that led to several deaths?
- siphoned billions from the Defense Department to pay for the border wall?
- spoke at length about the most “beautiful piece of chocolate cake you’ve ever seen” when asked about the decision to bomb Syria?
- suggested sending Americans infected with coronavirus to Guantanamo Bay?
- threatened to bomb Iranian cultural sites?
- told Russia and Turkey about a raid on the leader of ISIS, but not Congress?
- took credit for $700 million in cuts to the F-35 program’s price that was agreed upon before he was President?
- took credit for Obama’s Veteran’s Choice bill?
- touted a new “super-duper missile”?
- used Memorial Day to tweet about his accomplishments and advertise a discount on his branded merchandise?
- wanted a military parade for his inauguration, including tracked vehicles and missile launchers?
- was denounced by his former Secretary of Defense for making “a mockery of our Constitution”?
- was endorsed by the Taliban?
