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Donald Trump showed a remarkable degree of infatuation with the military when he started his presidency. He was fulsome in his praise towards them and appointing former commanders to senior positions in his administration.
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But relations soured, with these men soon despairing of Trump’s policies, behaviour and morals. There were reports by October 2017 that three of the generals – James Mattis, John Kelly and HR McMaster – had a pact not to be abroad at the same time. At least one will stay behind, they had decided, as a check against the wilder actions of the president.
But then, one by one, the commanders gave up and left. Trump, who avoided the Vietnam draft by claiming he had bone-spurs, began insulting men and women who had faced danger and served their country in wars through his tweets. His “army” increasingly seemed to be the fringe right-wing civilian militias. Armed groups who like dressing up as soldiers and some of whose members are Walter Mittys – with fanciful accounts of serving in special forces.