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18
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0 of 18 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
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A statue mocking President Donald Trump over his medical exemption from the Vietnam War as a young man has appeared near the National Mall in Washington, D.C., two days before Veterans Day.
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statue → mock → Day
Entitled “The Foot Soldier,” the gold statue depicts the president seated on a granite pedestal examining his right foot having removed his shoe, a reference to how Queens podiatrist Dr Larry Braunstein, a Trump family tenant, diagnosed him with bone spurs in 1968.
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Braunstein → entitle → 1968
The monument, which also appears to nod to Trump’s own attempts to make over D.C.’s public spaces, sits on Madison Drive NW between 7th and 9th Streets opposite the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden.
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which → appear → Garden
A plaque fixed to its base reads: “We honor the service and sacrifice of our Commander in Chief, Donald J Trump.
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We → fix → Chief
He’s a soldier in spirit, who marched to the front lines of dodging the draft, armed with a perfect diagnosis of bone spurs.
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who → ’ → spurs
“We salute a leader who knows you can’t spell sacrifice without ‘I,’ and a warrior who reminds us that sometimes when you’re called to stand up, it’s best to just sit down and rest your feet.”
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it → salute → feet
A second inscription quotes a Trump Facebook post circa August 2013 that reads: “I can be very military.”
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I → quote → August
The president received five deferrals from the Vietnam conflict in the late 1960s, four because of his college studies at Fordham University and the University of Pennsylvania and the fifth because of the medical condition.
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president → receive → condition
The guerrilla art collective behind the new statue, The Secret Handshake, said in a statement: “As the president continues to wage a war and threaten new ones, it’s time to harken back to a time when Donald Trump would do whatever it takes to stay out of combat.”
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it → say → combat
Its unveiling Monday was presided over by a toe-shaped mascot, “Toey,” who told The Washington Post: “Draft dodger?
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who → preside → dodger
I hardly know her.”
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I → know → her
Imitating Trump, he added: “I’m the biggest toe.
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I → imitate → Trump
Largest toe that anyone’s ever seen.”
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anyone → see → that
White House spokesman Davis Ingle said in a statement Monday: “Trump Derangement Syndrome is a sick and incurable disease that has rotted the brains of these Democrat activists.
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that → say → activists
“President Trump will never waver in fighting for and protecting the American people.”
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Trump → waver → people
The Secret Handshake previously put up a giant gold toilet in tribute to the president, a replica of Nancy Pelosi’s desk featuring a pile of fake excrement in response to the actions of Trump’s supporters during the Capitol riot of January 6, 2021, and, more recently, a memorial called the “Iran War Participation Trophy.”
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Handshake → put → January
Trump’s failure to serve in the military has often been used as a stick with which to beat him throughout his presidency, with his estranged former personal attorney Michael Cohen telling Congress in 2019 there was no record of his receiving treatment for bone spurs and that he had once told him: “You think I’m stupid?
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I → serve → him
I wasn’t going to Vietnam
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I → go → Vietnam
The Aporia
