When defending himself for making what a reasonable person would have seen as a rather insensitive condolence call to Myeshia Johnson whose husband, Army Sgt. La David Johnson, was recently killed in action in Niger, because he referred to LaDavid as “your guy” and not by his name Trump offered,
“I can only say this. I was really nice to her. I respect her, I respect her family, I certainly respect La David—who, by the way, I called La David right from the beginning, they put a chart in front, La David, it says La David Johnson. So I called right from the beginning, there’s no hesitation, one of the great memories of all time, no hesitation.”
He had just mentioned in answer to another question that he had attended an ivy league college and is “very intelligent”.
When he was the Republican presidential candidate, he related that he received a medical deferment During the Viet Nam War because he had bone spurs in his feet.
But, during a July 2015 campaign stop in Iowa, Trump admitted that he couldn’t recall which foot it was.
So he told reporters,
“You’ll have to look it up.”
Not long after this, he and his campaign issued a statement saying he had bone spurs in both of his heels.
Certainly, with “one of the great memories of all time” he should have been able to remember which foot it had been, or perhaps that it had been both.
Something that played such an important role in keeping him away from the battlefield during a war as memorable as that one when there were protests and much talk about the draft, having to serve, knowing your draft status, and, eventually, your draft lottery number one of the great memories of all time would emember where the bone spurs were.