Quiz 4: Full Military Honors – Real Trump Trivia

Donald Trump and the Military.
Mr. Trump’s relationship with the U.S. military has been somewhat complicated. This quiz only scratches the surface of that topic, but it will also test a little more of your knowledge about this historic American figure.

1. A message from the commander in chief…
After the professionals in Navy Seal Team 6 designed a highly dangerous mission to take out Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan, after they arduously trained for the mission over months, and after they put their lives on the line to execute the mission in a hostile environment, Commander-in-Chief Trump retweeted one of these two messages to his ~87 million Twitter followers.
Which ONE of these tweets did Mr. Trump actually publish?

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2. More than all the generals…

About 45 years before he became the Commander in Chief of the U.S. military, that military was drafting young men to fight the Vietnam war, and Donald Trump was arranging a medical deferment to avoid the draft. Reportedly, Trump later told close associates that he had faked the ailment to avoid the draft and the war. What service-preventing ailment did Donald Trump claim as a reason that he should not be drafted for military service?

Herpes

Bone spurs

Near-sightedness

Gall stones

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3. How can we honor your service?

After successfully avoiding service in the Vietnam war himself, Mr. Trump argued on national TV that John McCain was “not a war hero” during the time that he fought as a Navy pilot in Vietnam. According to Trump, what disqualified McCain from being a genuine war hero?

Fill in the blank with the correct option to complete Trump’s stated logic.
John McCain was not a real war hero because he ______________.

Dodged the draft

Disparaged American generals

Detained Vietnamese children in cages

Got captured when his plane was shot down in combat

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4. Four more years!

When John McCain was prisoner of war in Vietnam,
– his Vietnamese captors beat and tortured him for about a year, then
– they offered to grant him an early release when his father became the commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific, then
– he rejected their offer of early release, then
– he remained in captivity where he was tortured for four more years.
Why did John McCain reject the offer to be freed in year #1 of his imprisonment?

He couldn’t leave the enemy prison and travel back to the U.S. due to painful bone spurs.

He would not leave the enemy prison camp until his fellow U.S. soldiers were released.

He was waiting for a first-class airline seat back to the U.S.

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5. Let’s review this question one more time.

After successfully avoiding service in the Vietnam war himself, Mr. Trump argued on national TV that John McCain was “not a war hero” during the time that he fought as a Navy fighter pilot in Vietnam. According to Trump, what disqualified McCain from being a war hero?

Fill in the blank with the correct option to complete Trump’s stated logic.
John McCain could not be a real war hero because he ______________.

Dodged the draft

Disparaged American generals

Detained Vietnamese children in cages

Got captured when his plane was shot down in combat

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