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(71,996 posts) Wed Feb 17, 2016, 10:52 AM Feb 2016

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

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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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1997 Interview: Draft-Dodger Trump Said Sleeping Around Was My ‘Personal Vietnam’ [View all] kpete Feb 2016 OP

He's like the heaven sent opponent, in a GE. delrem Feb 2016 #1

It makes you wonder. surrealAmerican Feb 2016 #2

Not if he kept his helmet under a poncho JustABozoOnThisBus Feb 2016 #4

I doubt cannabis_flower Feb 2016 #46

I'm sure he would have done a "Game of Thrones" thing only through his mob connections. Spitfire of ATJ Feb 2016 #9

Heh In_The_Wind Feb 2016 #3

That will look good on a Sanders or Clinton presidential ad tabasco Feb 2016 #5

I have only one word... Wednesdays Feb 2016 #6

His idiocy knows no bounds.. n/t True Earthling Feb 2016 #7

actually those he slept with could make that claim lame54 Feb 2016 #8

Oh, ew. Just when I think that Trump can't get any creepier and disgusting, he manages to catbyte Feb 2016 #10

I have grossed myself out... 3catwoman3 Feb 2016 #34

What a kidder he is. malthaussen Feb 2016 #11

Ok, so which is worse...A Self-Proclaimed Bombastic Draft Dodger (Trump)... NeoGreen Feb 2016 #12

The fact that Bush "won" over Vietnam vets Gore and Kerry Glorfindel Feb 2016 #17

He's right!... Avoiding the clap is exactly like avoiding land mines. Well.... nt Bigmack Feb 2016 #13

Exactly. We had a saying in Vietnam: "If The Donald can take it, we can take it." nt pinboy3niner Feb 2016 #14

The clap.. and land mines. Betty Boom-Boom could give you both. nt Bigmack Feb 2016 #15

And the only kind of inspection he had to stand was a "short arms" inspection .. DemoTex Feb 2016 #39

I KNOW... heard it all the time from returning vets I knew! maddiemom Feb 2016 #48

"Wow, avoid the clap-Jimmy Dugan" louis-t Feb 2016 #26

This country rejected three Vietnam-veteran presidential candidates Glorfindel Feb 2016 #16

There's quite a difference leftynyc Feb 2016 #44

Gross. I need a shower after reading this. Initech Feb 2016 #18

Shades of the uberpatriot Dickster chapdrum Feb 2016 #19

Exactly, what sort of person could even vote for a ticket hughee99 Feb 2016 #31

He sounds like Geronimoe Feb 2016 #20

No nxylas Feb 2016 #25

I like Vets that avoided VD Plucketeer Feb 2016 #21

Draft doging chickenhawk rat bastard to be precise. sulphurdunn Feb 2016 #22

I admire your way with words. 3catwoman3 Feb 2016 #35

So the Sultan of Splort didn't get the clap. And he wanna medal. Eleanors38 Feb 2016 #23

Hey Trumpster......................................... turbinetree Feb 2016 #24

Do we even want to get around the draft dodging issue? n/t doc03 Feb 2016 #27

I haven't been to Vietnam in war time catrose Feb 2016 #28

The man's a saint. Bad Dog Feb 2016 #29

Don't forget Romney's sons who did equivalent military service keithbvadu2 Feb 2016 #30

their mom said their church work in France was the equivalent, too Skittles Feb 2016 #32

Here's the GOP frontrunner as a brave (toy) soldier... FailureToCommunicate Feb 2016 #33

OMG! No wonder he is so full of himself, Ilsa Feb 2016 #38

WHOA! Worth a thousand words! maddiemom Feb 2016 #49

Shouldn't we be hearing the Nutcracker Suite, or something? nt truebluegreen Feb 2016 #51

Yes! Or "Babes in Toyland" FailureToCommunicate Feb 2016 #52

Even better! truebluegreen Feb 2016 #53

Doesn't this show... zentrum Feb 2016 #36

I wish people would stop calling those who used deferments draft dodgers. It is an abuse of the term CBGLuthier Feb 2016 #37

Actually, using the system was just legalized draft avoidance which is a dodge Gormy Cuss Feb 2016 #42

I like draft dodgers but I don't like narcissists. nt valerief Feb 2016 #40

This is funny ... Jopin Klobe Feb 2016 #41

Most of the GOP politicians and GOP RW media hosts also did not serve but encouraged wars. Romney vinny9698 Feb 2016 #43

I wish I'd had that option left-of-center2012 Feb 2016 #45

Yeah! I'm sure at the time he was thinking "it's a tough job... it's screwing everyone in sight or maddiemom Feb 2016 #47

Thank goodness he pulled out... n/t Gore1FL Feb 2016 #50

Like Al Capone (in many ways), Trump is now entering the observable, Gabi Hayes Feb 2016 #54