The backlash gained traction on X (formerly Twitter) when a user pointed out Elon Musk’s past, responding to a post by X’s AI chatbot Grok.
“Elon Musk is a draft dodger, according to Grok!” they wrote. “My brother spent a year in a South African prison as a conscientious objector—eating worm-infested porridge—against apartheid when he was conscripted. Who is Elon Musk to criticize any veteran?”
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump acknowledged to advisors that he made up a fake injury to avoid military service, because “I wasn’t going to Vietnam,” his former lawyer told lawmakers during testimony on Wednesday.
Michael Cohen, who also worked as a fixer for Trump before his election, said he was tasked with tamping down criticism of the military deferment as the presidential candidate simultaneously mocked Sen. John McCain, a former prisoner of war in Vietnam, for being regarded as a military hero. “I like people who weren’t captured,” Trump said during a July 2015 interview.
What has our country become when we make gods and heroes of cowards?
