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Trump launches midnight posting spree to praise American military dominance – right after sharing pic of his mom and dad
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President Donald Trump crowed about the American military’s dominance over Iran in a midnight Truth Social post a few hours after he shared a nostalgic photo with his parents at the New York Military Academy.
Trump posted the photo standing beside his parents Fred and Mary at the academy in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, where he was shipped off at the age of 13 in 1959, and remained there until he was 18.
“At Military Academy with my parents, Fred and Mary!” the president shared on Truth Social Thursday evening, a few hours after U.S. Central Command announced that an American military refuelling aircraft went down in western Iraq.
A few hours later, at midnight, apparently prompted by media coverage about the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran, the president took to his social media platform to boast of how America has “decimated” the regime.
“We are totally destroying the terrorist regime of Iran, militarily, economically, and otherwise, yet, if you read the Failing New York Times, you would incorrectly think that we are not winning,” Trump raged. “Iran’s Navy is gone, their Air Force is no longer, missiles, drones and everything else are being decimated, and their leaders have been wiped from the face of the earth.”
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Trump bragged that the U.S. has “unparalleled firepower, unlimited ammunition and plenty of time” in the conflict raging in the Middle East.
“Watch what happens to these deranged scumbags today,” he warned.
Earlier, the White House reposted the black and white photograph of Trump with his parents at the military academy on social media.
Many people took the opportunity to bring up how Trump avoided the draft for the Vietnam War and received a medical exemption for bone spurs.
Trump’s own military record first emerged nearly a decade ago when it was revealed that he was granted five “deferrals” from the conflict.
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“Can you have bone spurs in the military academy ?” the top comment on the White House social media post read, which was liked by more than 3,000 people.
“Learning how to ‘dodge?’” another person wrote.
“Military academy or band camp?” someone else joked.
While many of the comments were critical of Trump, some of his supporters were full of praise.
“It instilled discipline and hard work,” one person said. “I would say that the training was successful because he worked and became a billionaire and a 2 term president of the United States.”
