Donald Trump spoke about baring his torso to Christian conservatives on Saturday, prompting plenty of reaction on social media. (Watch the video below.)
βTogether, we stood up to the communists, Marxists and fascists to defend religious liberty like no other president has ever done,β he told the Faith & Freedom Coalition in Washington, DC. βAnd I have the wounds all over my body. If I took this shirt off youβd see a beautiful, beautiful person but youβd see wounds all over me. Iβve taken a lot of wounds, I can tell you. More than I suspect any president ever.β
While many on X (formerly Twitter) lobbed personal digs, some zeroed in on the presumptive Republican nominee for saying he had wounds β metaphorical or not.
Commenters reminded the former president that some of his predecessors, including Abraham Lincoln and John F Kennedy, sustained fatal wounds from gunshots while Trump has been accused of avoiding harmβs way. Detractors have called him a draft dodger for a claim of bone spurs in his foot that allowed him to skip military service during the Vietnam War.
βThe wounds of a draft dodger must be painful,β one wrote.
βMr. Bone Spurs is now turning himself into a public servant martyr,β another chimed in.
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