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Trump Family Enlists in War Against Iran!

Mar 28 2026

One of the measures available to the military when recruitment lags is to raise the eligibility age for joining the United States Army. Normally, we age out when we turn 36, but this week Donald Trump had to sign a desperate measure, his presidency and his war having discouraged recruitment, by increasing the age of eligibility to 42. How did that ever get out with Secretary of "War" muzzling the doings of the Pentagon?

It gave late-night pundit Lawrence O’Donnell an opening to say that suddenly son Eric, precisely age 42, often cast by late-night comics as least favored by Daddy Trump, albeit without proof, the chance to completely change the public perception of him. You see, youngest son Barron had celebrated his 20th birthday a week before but he hadn’t leaped at his chance for greatness by reporting to a recruitment office to fight alongside his dad, so he had left it wide open for Eric “to prove that

he is the brave Trump, something we have never seen before, a brave Trump”, said O’Donnell. Which didn't happen.

So we concede to The Onion our never-to-be believed headline.

Donald Sr., after all, obtained five deferments, first when in college but ultimately claiming a bone spur in his foot attested to podiatrist Barry Braunstein in hometown Queens, New York, who did a "favor" for Trump’s father – his landlord. "It was family lore," said daughter Elysa Braunstein to The New York
The storefront where Dr. Braunstein practiced podiatry.


Times. It was "something we would always discuss" among family and friends.

“He spent the rest of his life playing golf on those feet”, O’Donnell derided, and yet “he could not serve in any capacity in the military, not as a driver, not in an office job.” When asked by a reporter years ago “which foot”, Trump could not remember.

three of the four

There are now three Trump siblings eligible for service. We don’t overlook daughter Tiffany, age 32. She, of course, was a mere six-years-old when the attacks struck her home city and country on September 11 of 2001, but both of her older brothers were of prime age, Trump Jr. then 23, and Eric then 17. Neither volunteered for military service. Did they do anything?

And this time around, Trump’s two eldest sons have invested in Powerus Corporation, a newly created drone firm, just as Papa Trump’s administration will be spending heavily on ramping up drone production. Rather than enlisting they have opted for what has always been called “war profiteering”.

growing anger

Jesse Ventura was furious. The pro wrestler, actor, and former Minnesota governor ripped into the Trumps’ avoidance to serve. ”Because how can you send somebody else’s kids to a war if you won’t send your own?” Ventura continued…

So I’m calling on Barron Trump to enlist in the US military. Do something your father never had the courage to do. So, I’m calling right now for Barron Trump, Donald Trump’s son. You know, after all, he’s had three wives. He’s had kids by each wife, and nobody’s ever served in the military. I want to see a Trump in the military. Everybody in my family has served.”

Ventura was a Navy SEAL.

a long ago america

It was surely a different time, a time when honor rose above self-serving. (My dad, too old for military service, quit his civilian job and went to work in a defense plant making planes for World World II). O’Donnell drove the point hom:

“It was unthinkable that a president of the United States could lead the country in a war while he sons refused to go to war”

He reminded those of those hazy about World War II born many years since that “all four of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s sons served in World War II [emphasis ours but surely Lawrence would concur]. Dwight Eisenhower’s son John served in the U.S. Army during World War II and the Korean War and rose to brigadier general. The following presidents mostly had daughters who were not permitted in combat elements of the service or there was there no war on in their time, but George H. W. Bush’s son was a jet pilot during the Vietnam War, although in a unit that never the left the states (and that’s another story we could tell you), but his honorable World War II dad survived a shoot down as a Grumman Avenger pilot in the Pacific.

O’Donnell also told us that a uniformed Princess Elizabeth served as an Ambulance driver when she was 18
Princess Elizabeth at age 18


during the London blitz as Hitler bombed London and England nightly during the Second World War. This was when her father was no less the King of England. O’Donnell said no one took any notice of that. It was expected of her.

Where has valor gone?

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