Overview
- In a phone interview on CNBC’s Squawk Box, Trump said he “would have won Vietnam very quickly” and compared the new Iran fighting to past U.S. wars by length.
- He cited a chart of World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq before noting he is “five months” into the Iran conflict.
- The Independent framed the remarks against an active U.S.-Iran confrontation and reported that a potential peace deal “hangs in the balance.”
- Trump avoided service in Vietnam through four student deferments and a 1968 medical exemption for alleged heel bone spurs documented by Queens podiatrist Dr. Larry Braunstein.
- Michael Cohen told Congress in 2019 that Trump did not provide him medical records or proof of surgery to support the bone-spur diagnosis.