“In an unearthed interview from
1997, Donald Trump claimed he was a ‘brave
soldier’ for avoiding STDs during his single years in the late ’90s.
“‘It’s amazing, I can’t even believe
it. I’ve been so lucky in terms of that whole world, it is a dangerous world
out there. It’s like Vietnam, sort of. It is my personal Vietnam. I feel like a
great and very brave solider,’ Trump said in the interview when Howard Stern
asked how he handled making sure he wasn’t contracting STDs from the women
he was sleeping with.
“The
business-mogul-turned-politician elaborated on the fact in the interview,
calling women’s vaginas ‘potential landmines’ and saying ‘there’s some
real danger there.
“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.
“‘You know, if you’re young, and in
this era, and if you have any guilt about not having gone to Vietnam, we have
our own Vietnam — it’s called the dating game,’ Trump said to Stern in a 1993
interview. ‘Dating is like being in Vietnam. You’re the equivalent of a soldier
going over to Vietnam…’”
On John McCain's war record:
ReplyDeleteDuring a July 2015 campaign event at the Family Leadership Summit in Ames, Iowa, Donald Trump took on Senator John McCain's reputation as a war hero.
"He's not a war hero," Trump explained, shocking the event's moderator. "He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren't captured."