UPDATE: Donald Trump Takes Office as the 47th US President

Bragg Soldiers Who Cheered Trump's Political Attacks While in Uniform Were Checked for Allegiance, Appearance

By Konstantin Toropin and Steve Beynon
June 11, 2025


…For this story, Military.com reached out to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's office as well as the Army and the 82nd Airborne Division directly with a series of questions that ranged from the optics of the event to social media posts showing the sale of Trump campaign merchandise on the base, to the apparent violation of Pentagon policies on political activity in uniform.

Internal 82nd Airborne Division communications reviewed by Military.com reveal a tightly orchestrated effort to curate the optics of Trump's recent visit, including handpicking soldiers for the audience based on political leanings and physical appearance. The troops ultimately selected to be behind Trump and visible to the cameras were almost exclusively male.

One unit-level message bluntly said "no fat soldiers."

"If soldiers have political views that are in opposition to the current administration and they don't want to be in the audience then they need to speak with their leadership and get swapped out," another note to troops said...

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President Donald Trump greets paratroopers and soldiers in attendance during the Army 250 celebration at Fort Bragg, N.C.,10 June, 2025.
 
If Trump manages to get this country into a situation like that.

He will definitely have to initiate a Military Draft.

The US barely had the manpower to handle Iraq/Afghanistan and those two theaters were not full blown war.

Get ready….

You think they will up the age range??
 
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