{"id":43795,"date":"2026-01-23T12:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T17:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=43795"},"modified":"2026-01-23T12:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T17:37:08","slug":"donald-trumps-warrior-image-is-hiding-a-not-so-secret-secret-from-his-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=43795","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump&#8217;s warrior image &#8216;is hiding a not-so-secret secret&#8217; from his past"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2026\/01\/23\/donald-trumps-warrior-image-is-hiding-war-draft-dodging-past-vietnam-26466637\/?ICID=ref_fark\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/SEC_281915056-7844.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:220px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The US President avoided active duty in Vietnam due to &#8216;bone spurs&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2026\/01\/23\/donald-trumps-warrior-image-is-hiding-war-draft-dodging-past-vietnam-26466637\/\">Donald Trump&#8217;s warrior image &#8216;is hiding a not-so-secret secret&#8217; from his past<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>this getting a lot of attention in the uk.<br><br>also, someone needs to charge the author for each use of the newline\/cr\/enter key.  I don&#8217;t think there was more than 3 &#8220;paragraphs&#8221; with more than 1 sentence.  Is this some sort of new &#8220;style&#8221;?  off3ends my sensibilities in the same way that annoying af caption style that&#8217;s all the rage lately.  and yes, get off my fucking lawn!<br><br>fta:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>In an interview with Fox News in Davos,\u00a0the US president\u00a0repeated his criticism of NATO, saying he was not \u2018sure\u2019 the alliance would \u2018be there if we ever needed them\u2019.<br>He added: \u2018We\u2019ve never needed them. They\u2019ll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan\u2026 and they did, they stayed a little back, a little off the frontlines.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US President avoided active duty in Vietnam due to &#8216;bone spurs&#8217;&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[2085,1043,1102,406],"class_list":["post-43795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-boob","tag-nato","tag-tfg","tag-uk","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43795"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43799,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43795\/revisions\/43799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}