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Is Donald Trump the first draft dodger to be elected POTUS?

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  • 4 years ago
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    I can't think of any other president that would have been so I'm gonna say yes

  • 4 years ago

    Absolutely not. There was Bill Clinton and Obama didn't even register for the draft...he claimed to be Kenyan.

  • No, three out of the last four dodged the draft.

    Not that Ron "served in Hollywood, not Germany" Reagan was much of a hero.

    Obama was too young for the draft. George H.W. Bush was a war hero and a spook enough to make NEwt Gingrich cream in his jeans.

    Carter was career military till his father died and he needed to take over the farm.

  • 4 years ago

    No. Many draft dodgers were elected POTUS. However, Trump is not a draft dodger because he wasn't eligible for the draft for medical reasons and didn't do anything to dodge it.

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    Bush was, probably others back in the day

    Teddy would be shaking his head

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    No, Bill Clinton was.

  • 4 years ago

    If you mean the first president who chose not to go to war, no he's not. Clinton and GW Bush also chose not to participate in Vietnam. Clinton got educational deferments. Bush got into the Texas Air Nat'l Guard (ahead of a long waiting list) where they spent a million dollars teaching him to fly, then he quit before his commitment was up when he found something else he'd rather do.

    But Congress is FULL of what we call 'chicken hawks'--politicians who praised the Vietnam War but decided they had better things to do themselves (and their sons also). The great majority of these are Republicans, of course. Republicans leaders never saw a war they didn't like, but THEY didn't fight in them.

  • 4 years ago

    trump didn't dodge the draft, he was never drafted

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    Yes, but Dick Cheney

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    He had deferments. Blue dress was the draft dodger

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