{"id":3433,"date":"2026-07-04T14:36:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T14:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propertyrelocationusa.com\/?p=3433"},"modified":"2026-07-04T14:36:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T14:36:01","slug":"cadet-bone-spurs-scathing-op-ed-compares-trump-to-founding-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propertyrelocationusa.com\/?p=3433","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Cadet Bone Spurs&#8217;: scathing op-ed compares Trump to Founding Father"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A New York Times editorial published on Independence Day ripped into Donald Trump by drawing a stark comparison between the president and the first man to hold his current office, George Washington. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/propertyrelocationusa.com\/?p=3432\">Conservative ex-judge warns Americans face \u2018stark\u2019 choice in the age of Trump<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Maureen Down spoke with the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Ron Chernow, whose biography of Alexander Hamilton inspired the Lin-Manuel Miranda musical, about his views on Trump as opposed to Washington. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[Washington] had this natural gravitas and dignity that I think is really essential to the office,&#8221; said Chernow. &#8220;And now we have a president who, I suspect, has probably never read a history book.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dowd was a bit more brutal in her comparison, describing Trump as a &#8220;Foundering Toddler&#8221; and granting him the title &#8220;Cadet Bone Spur,&#8221; a snarky reference to the diagnosis he used to avoid fighting in Vietnam. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/propertyrelocationusa.com\/?p=3430\">America is a smoldering pile of rubble this July 4 \u2014 and this absurd law is to blame<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One famously wouldn\u2019t tell a lie,&#8221; wrote Dowd. &#8220;The other famously can\u2019t stop.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chernow did have one piece of praise for the president that he admitted he could not bestow on Washington. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump can make all this money off cryptocurrencies and meme tokens, and there\u2019s nothing in the Constitution specifically preventing that other than the president\u2019s own sense of shame and integrity \u2014 and those don\u2019t seem to apply with very great force to our president,\u201d Chernow told Dowd. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump is very good at finding these holes in the system. 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