The presumptive GOP presidential nominee made the claim during the Rolling Thunder motorcycle rally at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. “That’s a good thing”, said Ralph Giannola, 65, who said he had not decided whether to support Mr Trump in November.
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In his roughly 30-minute speech honed for the audience, Trump also vowed to “knock the hell out of” the Islamic State terror group by building a bigger and better military.
Rolling Thunder bikers with a Donald Trump sticker on their windshield return a salute as they pass over Memorial Bridge to the Lincoln Memorial during the annual Memorial Day Rolling Thunder ride.
The US congress and many states have written an assortment of laws and policies created to restrict government services to people in the country illegally. One issue has been interminable waits for medical service at VA hospitals.
The annual event, first organized in 1988, is billed as a tribute to prisoners of war and Americans missing in action.
Controversies over Trump’s mocking comments about Arizona Sen. John McCain. Trump said McCain is only a war hero “because he was captured”.
He then added: “I like people who weren’t captured”. He has not, however, apologised for his comments towards McCain, which has prompted the Republican senator to call on Trump to apologise to fellow prisoners of war for the remark.
Trump, who managed to avoid the draft through a series of deferments, has faced criticism for not distributing the $6m he has claimed to have raised for veterans, ABC News noted. Trump said during his speech on Sunday he planned to hold a press conference on Tuesday to name the charities to which he had given the proceeds from the fundraiser.
The GOP nominee expressed disappointment at the size of the crowd, asserting that there were actually 600,000 attendees who had been denied access to the event by organizers. WSJ’s Shelby Holliday runs through the obstacles Trump will have to overcome. That’s in keeping with Trump’s know-nothing approach to the climate issue, but it can hurt him more than he might imagine.
“We’re going to make it bigger and bigger and better and stronger than ever before”, Trump said.
He promised to give veterans the option of seeing a private doctor if they encounter delays in getting care through the Department of Veterans Affairs. “And I’m not going to say it because I’m not allowed to say it because I want to be politically correct, so I refuse to say that I can not stand her screaming into the microphone all of the time”.
But veteran Mike Sukeena said Trump was right to criticize McCain. “All of them have turned their back on the veterans”.
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