‘TRUMP IS A WAR HERO’: Mark Levin Goes to the Mats to Defend Trump’s Incendiary Boast
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At least one person agrees wholeheartedly with President Donald Trump’s designation of himself as a “war hero.”
During a Tuesday appearance on Mark Levin’s radio show, Trump inveighed against those “trying to put” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in jail.
“He’s a war hero, cause we worked together, he’s a war hero. I guess I am, too,” submitted a chuckling Trump about the U.S. strike on Iranian nuclear sites earlier this year. “Nobody cares, but I am, too. You know, I sent those planes.”
The self-diagnosis, though it appeared to be made somewhat in jest, has been criticized by some because the phrase is usually reserved for military veterans who risked their lives in the field of battle, rather than civilian leaders who issue orders.
Trump never served in uniform. Netanyahu served in the Israel Defense Forces, and fought in the 1967-1970 War of Attrition as well as the Yom Kippur War. He was wounded multiple times, including during a 1972 hostage rescue operation.
“This is just nuts. This is nuts,” argued former Republican congressman Adam Kinzinger on CNN Tuesday night.
“And they’re going to find — his people are going to find a way to justify this,” he predicted.
But Levin himself was not among those to take issue with the comments.
“YES, TRUMP IS A WAR HERO. Let me educate the truly stupid in the grotesquely moronic media and their crackpot surrogates, since President Trump made the war hero comments on my radio show last evening,” began Levin in a post on X Wednesday morning. “There are lots of presidents who are war heroes who did not actually fight in a war. Reagan defeated the Soviet Union. War hero. FDR defeated the Axis powers. War hero. Lincoln won the Civil War. War hero.”
“Trump destroyed Iran’s nuclear facilities and everything with them — which Bush 41 and 43, Clinton, Obama, and Biden said they would prevent, but failed to do. Trump stopped Iran’s nuclear threat to the United States in its tracks. He gave the order. He is the commander-in-chief. War hero,” he concluded.
