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onecaliberal

(32,775 posts)
Sun Feb 9, 2020, 01:30 PM Feb 2020

His personal Vietnam

From 2016
Trump Boasted of Avoiding STDs While Dating: Vaginas Are ‘Landmines … It Is My Personal Vietnam.

Also appearing on Stern’s show in 1993, Trump bragged about his promiscuous lifestyle while single and stated that men who didn’t go to Vietnam didn’t need to feel guilty because dating during the AIDS epidemic in the ’80s was also dangerous.

https://people.com/politics/trump-boasted-of-avoiding-stds-while-dating-vaginas-are-landmines-it-was-my-personal-vietnam/

This is who THEY ALL ARE.

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His personal Vietnam (Original Post) onecaliberal Feb 2020 OP
Where we still in Vietnam in the 1980's? Turbineguy Feb 2020 #1
What a turd he is pandr32 Feb 2020 #2
My brothers Vietnam was different flotsam Feb 2020 #3
Yes, he was brave during the Jan 1968 Tit Offensive JustABozoOnThisBus Feb 2020 #4

pandr32

(11,548 posts)
2. What a turd he is
Sun Feb 9, 2020, 01:49 PM
Feb 2020

Most people his age went through the "free love" period as "the pill" made casual sex acceptable. He acts as though when he does something he is discovering it for the first time.
Not only that, but the AIDS epidemic became a thing in the '80s and seemed to mostly include the gay population for a few years until it became clear that it did not discriminate.
Vietnam, while DT was dodging service, was at least a decade earlier.

flotsam

(3,268 posts)
3. My brothers Vietnam was different
Sun Feb 9, 2020, 04:54 PM
Feb 2020

he was drafted and sent to the 101st Airborne as a replacement for men killed or wounded at Hamburger Hill. He was in a unit overrun in 1970. After a night engagement in late June only he and another troop were only lightly enough wounded to be counted as effective-his major wounds caused by an officer being hit by a satchel charge...that both blew the guy apart and drove parts of his bones into my brother-got that-an explosive turned parts of a guys SKELETON into shrapnel. A Sergeant with them was so badly wounded my brother remarked that "Yes, you can actually have your ass shot off. His name was Grady and he died two days later.
Since his unit was so badly depleted they were op-conned to a different unit. There was a friendly fire incident that killed a young guy from Florida...His name was Sandy Porter and his name is on the wall. I cannot tell the entire tale-it simply ain't mine to tell. I can only say Fuck his Vietnam of compliant nubile females-I would give all I own could I just send my brother to that venue. Because Trump is a fucking coward.

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