Veterans
2015
2015-07-18 Trump (who dodged the draft) said John McCain wasn’t a war hero, stating, “He’s not a war hero. He’s a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren’t captured”. In March of 2019, Trump wrote, “So it was indeed (just proven in court papers) “last in his class” (Annapolis) John McCain that sent the Fake Dossier ot the FBI and Media hoping to have it printed BEFORE the Election. He & the Dems, working together, failed (as usual). Even the Fake News refused this garbage!”
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/19/politics/donald-trump-john-mccain-dead
https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1107260609974943745
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/02/us/politics/donald-trump-draft-record.html
2020
2020-09-04 Reports emerged that Trump called fallen soldiers ‘suckers’ and ‘losers’.
2020-10-13 After Trump retweeted a Q-ANON linked account promoting baseless theories about Bin Laden, a former navy seal involved in the operation that killed Bin Laden responded to Trump “Very brave men said goodby to their kids to go kill Osama bin Laden. We were given the order by President Obama. It was not a body double. Thank you Mr. President. Happy birthday @USNavy.”
2025 February
2025-02-24 The Trump administration started integrating AI to automate both general population healthcare and VA health care claims.
https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2026/01/ai-algorithms-health-insurance-care-risks-research
https://department.va.gov/ai/ai-use-case-inventory/
2025 March
2025-03-05 Veteran Eric Rodriguez spoke out after the Trump administration cut 400,000 jobs, dragging the VA back to 2019 staffing levels.
2025-03-05 A military news outlet Military.com published an article speaking out on behalf of millions of Veterans who feel that privatized healthcare will rapidly eat into the VA budget.
2025 June
2025-06-02 Iraqi war vet Hagan Scotten resigned rather than follow an order from Bondi to drop corruption charges against Mayor Eric Adams. In a letter he wrote, he stated, “If no lawyer within earshot of the President is willing to give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me”.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/fb-14401037/Read-Resignation-Letter-Hagan-Scotten.html
2025-06-06 A military news outlet Military Times covered a Unite4Veterans Washington DC rally cry to stop betraying our Vets.
https://www.unite4veterans.org/
2025-06-13 During an interview, a VA nurse cited, “there has been a long-time nursing staffing crisis…on top of that they are saying ‘not only are we not going to hire and fill those positions, we’re going to get rid of more staff”.
2025-06-23 A US citizen, US Marine, and father of three Narcisco Barranco was beaten and detained outside a Home Depot while working a landscaping job. DHS tried to assert he assaulted them with a weedwhacker, but footage showed he did not assault anyone.
2025-06-30 A news outlet reported that DeSantis vetoed $400,000 for the Transition House Homeless Veterans Program in Osceola County.
2025 July
2025-07-03 A news outlet reported that DeSantis vetoed funds set aside for a veteran program called “Patriot Passport” designed to allow permanent Florida residents who are veterans to ride transit lines for free.
2025-07-10 ICE detained Iraq war veteran George Retes while he was on the way to work.
2025-07-19 A disabled US Army veteran was detained by ICE during a Camarillo immigration raid.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/19/us/california-immigration-raid-george-retes
2025 August
2025-08-01 The Trump administration announced plans to prevent Veterans from accessing abortion care or counseling.
https://reproductiverights.org/5-things-trump-va-abortion-ban/
2025-08-12 An audit of the VA healthcare system showed 139 medical campuses were suffering severe staffing shortages.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/13/department-veterans-affairs-shortages-trump
2025 September
2025-09-23 Jon Stewart speaks out at a rally on behalf of veterans. Link here:
2025 October
2025-10-04 ICE agents attacked 84-year-old Laurie Eckman and 84-year-old Richard Eckman, knocked them down, sprayed them with chemical agents, and injured the woman by throwing a projectile at her head. Her husband – a Vietnam veteran – was harmlessly leaning on a walker just before the assault.
2025 November
2025-11-11 During a Veterans Day speech Trump stated he wants to rename the federal holiday as Victory Day.
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/11/11/trump-veterans-day-speech-victory-day/3501762890394/
2025-11-14 ICE deported Purple Heart veteran with PTSD Jose Barco in Florence Arizona.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/14/purple-heart-veteran-deported
2025-11-20 In a social media post Trump called for the execution of Democratic leaders for what he called “seditious behavior” after veteran military leaders and intelligence officers posted a video telling service members their rights to turn down illegal orders. Prior to those posts, RFD3 replied to the Washington Examiner calling the video “a seditious conspiracy”.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2p2dz9zk2o
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/20/nx-s1-5615190/trump-democrats-military-video-seditious
https://truthsocial.com/@RFD3/posts/115579824866571287
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115582451169685243
https://truthsocial.com/@Beersnake/posts/115579833072568656
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115597077845312894
2025 December
2025-12-12 The Trump administration began collecting data on all immigrants who are in any way affiliated with the Department of Veteran’s Affairs. For context, the VA system recruits foreign workers through the use of National Interest Waivers and still suffers a drastic staffing shortage.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/12/veterans-affairs-homeland-security-data-report
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/13/department-veterans-affairs-shortages-trump
2025-12-13 When confronted at a hearing, Representative Seth Magaziner of Rhode Island asked Kristi Noem how many United States military veterans were deported. Noem stated we have not reported any US citizens or military veterans. Representative Magaziner then supplied a Purple Heart recipient via Zoom who was deported and another combat veteran whose wife was deported yet came to the States legally.
2025-12-15 Several news outlets reported the Trump administration plans to eliminate tens of thousands of VA health care jobs, reportedly around 35,000.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/12/13/va-veterans-affairs-job-cuts-trump/
2026 January
2026-01-28 The US Embassy in Copenhagen removed flags honoring fallen Danish soldiers who died in Afghanistan for the US. Trump claimed the soldiers “didn’t walk the front line”. Only after public outcry were the flags reinstalled.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/28/europe/us-embassy-copenhagen-removes-flags-danish-soldiers-intl
2026 February
2026-02-05 Jake Lang was arrested in Minneapolis after destroying a sculpture the local Veteran-ran Common Defense organization bought permits to display. One of the Veterans commented, “As a United States Marine, I swore an oath to the Constitution, not a political party; not an agency, the Constitution”. Another Veteran commented, “I gave eight years of my life in service to this country in the military. For a January 6 insurrectionist to destroy our display is an attack on the First Amendment veterans like me fought to defend”.
2026-02-10 A grand jury refused to indict the 6 veteran congress members who spoke out about refusal to follow illegal orders.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5733465-democratic-lawmakers-avoid-indictment/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/grand-jury-declines-charges-against-6-democrats/
2026 March
2026-03-01 Trump peddled a veteran’s edition of his Trump bible for $99.99 on his website and on eBay.
2026-03-05 Marine Veteran Brian McGinnis was forcibly removed from a Senate hearing after protesting the US war campaign in Iran. His arm was broken.