During Nazi Germany’s march and subsequent retreat through Europe, it was common to disparage Adolph Hitler by calling him the “Bohemian Corporal,” recognition of his rank in the German army during World War I and his non-Prussian heritage.
Now that Donald Trump has tasted military success in Iran and Venezuela and is saber rattling potential new assaults in Colombia, Mexico, Cuba and Greenland, is it time to christen him with his own nickname from his experience during the Vietnam War?
How about, “Draft Dodger Don”?
Or, “Bone Spur Don”?
Or, “4-F Donald”?
Under his authority as commander in chief, is Trump’s fixation with flexing military might—in actual combat and through military parades—a manifestation of a latent insecurity complex from his repeated evasion of the Selective Service System draft during the height of the war in Vietnam?
Are these campaigns his way of demonstrating he has the “right stuff” to lead men in battle? (Women are not combat-qualified in Trump’s world.)
So far, Trump’s military excursions have not cost any American lives (though two servicemen were recently killed by ISIS in Syria, a posting he inherited, for which he ordered a retaliatory air strike).
But if he orders troops on the ground and more air attacks, combat deaths are almost sure to result. How will Trump’s electoral base which supported his platform of no international military engagements, no nation building, react?
Negative rumblings among the MAGA faithful are already airing.
