Donald Trump was saying the other day that John McCain isn’t much of a hero. “He’s a war hero because he got captured,” said Trump. “I like people who weren’t captured.”
Winston Churchill. He got himself captured during the Boer War.
Tito. The Russians captured him during World War I. Later, he ran Yugoslavia.
Again, I make no claim as to the likability of any of these former captives, and it’s possible they’d all rub Trump the wrong way. But he should be concerned that so many wound up running countries. As Trump has that in mind for himself, he might want to search his memory. Perhaps during the years of study that allowed him to claim four student deferments during the Vietnam era, there was an hour of detention.
