1997 Interview: Draft-Dodger Trump Said Sleeping Around Was My ‘Personal Vietnam’

[kpete]

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In a 1997 Howard Stern interview, the future presidential candidate likened sleeping with multiple women to service in the war he repeatedly avoided.

Draft-dodger Donald Trump once said that the danger he faced from getting sexually transmitted diseases was his own “personal Vietnam.”

In a 1997 interview with shock jock Howard Stern, Trump talked about how he had been “lucky” not to have contracted diseases when he was sleeping around.

“I’ve been so lucky in terms of that whole world. It is a dangerous world out there. It’s scary, like Vietnam. Sort of like the Vietnam-era,” Trump said in a video that resurfaced Tuesday on Buzzfeed, “It is my personal Vietnam. I feel like a great and very brave soldier.”

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[delrem]

1. He's like the heaven sent opponent, in a GE.

Playing with fire.

[surrealAmerican]

2. It makes you wonder.

Does he have a bunch of illegitimate children who might come out of the woodwork?

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

4. Not if he kept his helmet under a poncho

Anyway, Mr Trump, I'm sure the nation is grateful for your "service".

You're a vet now.

[cannabis_flower]

46. I doubt

If he did since he thinks he dodged a bullet.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

9. I'm sure he would have done a "Game of Thrones" thing only through his mob connections.

[In_The_Wind]

3. Heh

[tabasco]

5. That will look good on a Sanders or Clinton presidential ad

Thanks Donald!

[Wednesdays]

6. I have only one word...

(Wait, that wasn't even a word.)

[True Earthling]

7. His idiocy knows no bounds.. n/t

[lame54]

8. actually those he slept with could make that claim

[catbyte]

10. Oh, ew. Just when I think that Trump can't get any creepier and disgusting, he manages to

prove me wrong yet again. He gives me a serious case of the heebie jeebies. As a woman, just the thought of sleeping with that creep fills me with loathing. I can't imagine having to kiss that mouth. GACK!!!!!! I just grossed myself out.

[3catwoman3]

34. I have grossed myself out...

...picturing what his bedhead hair must look like.

He is repulsive in every possible way - physically, socially, morally, philosophically.

[malthaussen]

11. What a kidder he is.

Why, if he hadn't been a huuuugely successful businessmen, he would have been a hit as a stand-up comic. With every passing day, it becomes more evident that his campaign is a tour-de-force of performance art.

-- Mal

[NeoGreen]

12. Ok, so which is worse...A Self-Proclaimed Bombastic Draft Dodger (Trump)...

...or an unrepentant AWOL Silver-Spoon carrying pr1ck (Bush the dumber).

I can't decide...

[Glorfindel]

17. The fact that Bush "won" over Vietnam vets Gore and Kerry

says a lot about this country and its opinion of those of us who served. Trump won't lose any votes for being a draft dodger.

[Bigmack]

13. He's right!... Avoiding the clap is exactly like avoiding land mines. Well.... nt

[pinboy3niner]

14. Exactly. We had a saying in Vietnam: "If The Donald can take it, we can take it." nt

[Bigmack]

15. The clap.. and land mines. Betty Boom-Boom could give you both. nt

[DemoTex]

39. And the only kind of inspection he had to stand was a "short arms" inspection ..

Skin it and wring it!

[maddiemom]

48. I KNOW... heard it all the time from returning vets I knew!

[louis-t]

26. "Wow, avoid the clap-Jimmy Dugan"

"That's good advice."

[Glorfindel]

16. This country rejected three Vietnam-veteran presidential candidates

Dodging the draft won't count against Trump.

[leftynyc]

44. There's quite a difference

between merely not going to war using deferments or whatever and saying sleeping around is comparable to going to war.

[Initech]

18. Gross. I need a shower after reading this.

[chapdrum]

19. Shades of the uberpatriot Dickster

He of the five draft deferments.

Chickenhawks of a feather...

[hughee99]

31. Exactly, what sort of person could even vote for a ticket

Where the VP had FIVE draft deferments?

[Geronimoe]

20. He sounds like

Bill Clinton.

[nxylas]

25. No

Just...no.

[Plucketeer]

21. I like Vets that avoided VD

Vietnam Duty. May Donald ROT in Hell. He's already got a good start on this side of the turf.

[sulphurdunn]

22. Draft doging chickenhawk rat bastard to be precise.

In a cesspool like the Republican Party, the slimiest shit always floats to the top wrapped in money.

[3catwoman3]

35. I admire your way with words.

Pithy and precise.

[Eleanors38]

23. So the Sultan of Splort didn't get the clap. And he wanna medal.

[turbinetree]

24. Hey Trumpster.........................................

as I was out protesting that conflict, trying to get my friends back in one piece, and some of them didn't quite make it back standing vertical, and you thought in your minds eye that sleeping around was a personal Vietnam.

What is troubling is a lot Vets with there Vietnam hats on and there Legionnaire hats on are supporting him------------that is what so remarkable and there friends are on a cold wall with there names on it in the Washington Mall area :

[doc03]

27. Do we even want to get around the draft dodging issue? n/t

[catrose]

28. I haven't been to Vietnam in war time

But after reading about it and talking to vets, I conclude that it was nothing like sleeping around. Is anybody buying his drivel?

[Bad Dog]

29. The man's a saint.

He'll probably award himself some sort of medal, wooden cross or something.

[keithbvadu2]

30. Don't forget Romney's sons who did equivalent military service

by working on Daddy's campaign bus.

And coward pederast Ted Nugent.

[Skittles]

32. their mom said their church work in France was the equivalent, too

oh yes

no chicken hawks there

[FailureToCommunicate]

33. Here's the GOP frontrunner as a brave (toy) soldier...

NY Military Academy prep school

[Ilsa]

38. OMG! No wonder he is so full of himself,

after playing soldier like that. He's really out of touch with reality, and a narcissist.

[maddiemom]

49. WHOA! Worth a thousand words!

[truebluegreen]

51. Shouldn't we be hearing the Nutcracker Suite, or something? nt

[FailureToCommunicate]

52. Yes! Or "Babes in Toyland"

[truebluegreen]

53. Even better!

[zentrum]

36. Doesn't this show...

…how deeply freaked out and scared Trump is by women?

Bernie said something like that a few weeks ago. He was, as usual, right.

[CBGLuthier]

37. I wish people would stop calling those who used deferments draft dodgers. It is an abuse of the term

By this "logic" Bill Clinton was a draft dodger too.

The system was biased, racist, and crooked but using the system does not make someone a draft dodger.

[Gormy Cuss]

42. Actually, using the system was just legalized draft avoidance which is a dodge

and while I don't fault anyone for wanting to bypass service in Vietnam, I have no respect for fortunate sons like Trump who make lame comparisons like this, or who criticize McCain for becoming a POW.

[valerief]

40. I like draft dodgers but I don't like narcissists. nt

[Jopin Klobe]

41. This is funny ...

Everyone thinks that Dumb-all "Baby Hands" tRump is talking about regular, Human sex ...

[vinny9698]

43. Most of the GOP politicians and GOP RW media hosts also did not serve but encouraged wars. Romney

And I believe that most of the GOP base also did not serve. Look at Romney big time Viet Nam war supporter but served his time doing missionary work in Paris with a chef and house maids to take care of their needs. Tough. His sons also were serving by helping their dad get elected. Another tough assignment.
Cheney
GWB
Rush
Hannity
Romney
A few just off the top

[left-of-center2012]

45. I wish I'd had that option

Hmm ~
Having a lot of sex,
or going to Vietnam?

[maddiemom]

47. Yeah! I'm sure at the time he was thinking "it's a tough job... it's screwing everyone in sight or

Vyet Nammie..." Other guys his age were thinking, "Don't flunk out or..." I doubt that The Donald was worrying much about Viet Nam or STDs for any reason at the time. (The latter not much concern at that time for our mutual generation).

[Gore1FL]

50. Thank goodness he pulled out... n/t

[Gabi Hayes]

54. Like Al Capone (in many ways), Trump is now entering the observable,

late stage of tertiary neurosyphilitic dementia.

here's hoping he ends up the same way.