Inside the president’s long list of broken promises to the military

Trump has a script he uses when he wants to tweet an endorsement for a Republican congressional candidate. He always says: “Candidate X fights for your Second Amendment, defends our Borders, strengthens our Military and loves our Vets!” For those of us who have gone in search of an agenda the president promotes, that pretty much sums up what he’d like us to believe are his priorities.

At his campaign rallies, Trump brags about how he’s rebuilt our military and passed the Veteran’s Choice Act, both of which have been rated lies by the Washington Post fact-checkers. So in the midst of the news that Russia offered bounties to extremists in Afghanistan for killing U.S. soldiers, perhaps it’s time to review what the president has actually done to our military.

He said John McCain wasn’t a “war hero” because he was a POW (“I like people who weren’t captured”)
He belittled the Gold Star parents of a Muslim soldier who died in Iraq.
He told troops in Iraq that they were getting a 10 percent pay raise, which was a lie (it was 2.6 percent).
He diverted $3.6 billion from military projects to pay for his border wall.
He pardoned three war criminals, despite objections from the Pentagon.
He promised to veto a defense appropriations bill if it removes confederate names from military bases. Continue reading.