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sop

(18,399 posts)
2. Trump wrote "At Miltary Academy" hoping people would think he attended the U.S. Military Academy (West Point).
Fri Mar 13, 2026, 12:56 PM
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hlthe2b

(113,709 posts)
5. His sadistic (and early criminal) behavior DID have his father sending him to military school.
Fri Mar 13, 2026, 01:09 PM
Yesterday
Donald Trump attended the New York Military Academy (NYMA) in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, from 1959 to 1964, entering in the eighth grade and graduating in 1964. His father sent him there at age 13 due to behavioral issues, where he thrived in the structured, disciplined environment and eventually became a cadet

tetedur

(1,412 posts)
8. Trmp borrowed his roommate's jacket for a picture in the school's annual
Fri Mar 13, 2026, 01:23 PM
Yesterday

because the roommate was highly decorated and had several medals. It's all you need to know about that baby's propensity for stolen honor.

https://www.the-sun.com/news/4487675/donald-trump-unrecognizable-dressed-in-cadet-uniform/#


ariadne0614

(2,172 posts)
3. Shrinks have been warning us since 2015.
Fri Mar 13, 2026, 12:58 PM
Yesterday

They called their coalition “Duty to Warn.” And then there was the “Shrinking Trump” podcast, which shouted from the rooftops for a year, until last October.

hlthe2b

(113,709 posts)
4. Not my area of medicine, but i'm guessing his demented mind is reacting to all those who referenced
Fri Mar 13, 2026, 01:07 PM
Yesterday

-his Vietnam War avoidance and short-cut it to saying he'd "never served a day in uniform." I'm sure his moronic-laced mind thought back to his military academy days and thought "he'd show THEM!"

BTW, there is a litany of stories about why and how he spent his teen years at an (enforced by father) military school and his sadism came out before, during, and after.

UTUSN

(77,601 posts)
10. Ever since 2015 we have all learned psychiatry. - passing on looking at a pic of him.
Fri Mar 13, 2026, 01:38 PM
Yesterday

Am totally repulsed at the constant pics of him, not only on news items about him but attached to any random person or event that isn't about him. I once counted *THIRTEEN* (13) pics of him on one webpage, all of them actually the *same* pic.




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