Trump has the obnoxious habit of using American military personnel as props, an audience for highly partisan attacks. Worst of all, Trump deployed the troops at the border in pre-election stunt to rile up his xenophobic base. ABC News reports:“Is anybody here willing to give up the big pay raise you just got?” he surveyed the crowd. As the independent fact-checking site PolitiFact noted, the military has received a routine pay raise every year since at least 1961. Trump then falsely asserted that the pay increase was actually 10 percent, recounting phony conversations in which “plenty of people” tried to impose a smaller raise.

Source: Washington Post December 27, 2018 14:37 UTC