The Republican president has previously referred to fallen American service personnel as “suckers” and “losers.” He has never served in the military, having in fact dodged the Vietnam War draft on five occasions. The last of those owed to a bone spur diagnosis. It’s a condition that usually affects elderly individuals. He was 22 at the time.

Trump has similarly threatened to invade U.S. allies Panama, Canada, Colombia, Mexico, and Greenland, which is an autonomous territory of Denmark, a fellow NATO member.

The MAGA president’s growing, campaign-promise-busting appetite for military engagement also comes amid his bitter disappointment at being passed over for last year’s Nobel Peace Prize, despite a concerted public and private push by his allies. It was previously awarded to his Democratic predecessor, President Barack Obama.

In a letter regarding that snub, Trump wrote to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre in January that “considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace.”

The Norwegian government is not affiliated with the Nobel Committee, which decides independently to whom it will grant its awards. Trump’s claim to have stopped eight wars remains highly disputed.

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    The pedo sack of shit and his thugs strike again by murdering innocent people and wasting billions from the US treasury. All this shit to distract from the Epstein files.

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    In a letter regarding that snub, Trump wrote to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre in January that “considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace.”

    This is revolting, we are fucked. What a weenie

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      Many of them are in the military. I feel bad for the members that aren’t and just want to finish their enlistment or retire.

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      Indeed, the useless racist neo-Nazi fucks voted for this BS. Will Krasnov encourage his sons to join the US military and fight, fight, fight?

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    Imagine dying to protect a paedo from the repercussions of his many decades of raping children.

    Here lies Chad DudeMcHamburger.
    Blown to pieces in Iran for a person who didn’t, and still doesn’t, give a shit about anyone, even his own children.
    Rest in peace knowing that you were a distraction from the kiddie fiddling for a few days.
    RIP.

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        Oh gee, thank god I have an American telling me about this. I surely didnt already know this about my own country.

        Anyway we arent running around shooting people in the head in the middle of the street so yeah, we arent even close to how fucked you guys are.

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          You arnt running around shooting people yet! Canada has a solid history of war crimes, murder, and generally being some extremely vile people in times of turmoil.

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    He’s literally paraphrasing Farquaad at this point.

    “Some of you may die, but it’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make!”

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      I wonder if he’d be a better person if he’d seen Shrek as a child. I know Shrek is Dreamworks, but has anyone tried sitting him down and showing him Pixar’s catalogue? Maybe something humane will click… I’d start with Inside Out, and then maybe freak him out a bit with Up.

      Who am I kidding, he’d probably walk away in the end thinking “What was the point of that? I’m already trying to do Wall-E.”

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    “In order to get elected BarackObama will start a war with Iran” - Trump, Nov 29, 2011

    “BarackObama will attack Iran to get re-elected.” - Trump, Jan 17, 2012

    “Now that Obama’s poll numbers are in tailspin - watch for him to launch a strike on Libya or Iran. He is desperate.” - Trump, Oct 9, 2012

    “I predict that President Obama will at some point start a war with Iran in order to save face!” - Trump, Sept 16, 2013

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    I’m ashamed he’s my president but I’m more ashamed that a significant number of my fellow Americans don’t just tolerate his words and behavior, they fully and enthusiastically support them.

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      You’re not responsible for being born on the same plot of land as a bunch of morons you don’t even know

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          Many won’t. And that is understandable. But our only hope for the Star Trek future I’ve wanted since a kid is international solidarity among average people, regardless of what their stupid governments do.

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            It’s funny how many on the far right are doing the reactionary centrist pikachu face over normal Americans cutting them off. They act like it’s the liberals that are being unreasonable.

            I just saw a clip of that dumbass Watters complaining about this phenomenon. Do they really think they have some kind of right to be the very worst of people and others are supposed to invite them over to their houses for things like Thanksgiving? Or that women have to not only date them, but consider them marriage material?

            They like to pretend they are being cut off for merely being “conservative”, as if it was just about something like deregulation and tax policy. If that being “conservative” didn’t include so many truly gross things like misogyny and nativism and xenophobia and xtian theocracy and racism and so on, I doubt anyone would cut them off socially.

            People are so tired of their shit and the fact that it has personal consequences for them makes them so mad.

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              Frankly I didn’t realize how much of myself I was masking by trying to maintain relationships with people who have anti-civilizational worldviews. I thought I was being open minded and accepting, but I was actually just dimming my own light and giving their horrific beliefs legitimacy.

              It feels liberating to have solid boundaries.