Trump: "I Always Felt That I Was In The Military"

How delusional is Donald Trump? Well, for one thing, he believes that he could be president of the United States

Now, according to a breaking story in Politico, he actually believes he served in the military during the Vietnam War.

The Republican presidential candidate and multibillionaire business tycoon said in a forthcoming book that he "always felt that I was in the military" because he attended a military boarding school and "dealt with those people."

Trump said his experience at the New York Military Academy, an expensive prep school where his parents had sent him to correct poor behavior, gave him “more training militarily than a lot of the guys that go into the military.”

The book, "Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success," written by Michael D'Antonio, is set for a Sept. 22 release.

So here’s the truth about Trump: He was a badass rich kid who, like many such kids of the time, was shipped off to a military academy to learn some self-discipline.

Now he’s inflated that into military service, which is not exactly humping through the jungle looking for Charlie.

If Trump had been an officer commanding combat troops, he would have surely been fragged by his own men, i.e., deliberately killed by a hand grenade.

"I always felt I was in the military." Right, Donald. In 1969, I tried a version of the same thing with my local draft board: I said that I was in the ROTC for two years, and I felt like I served. They weren’t buying it. And, unlike Trump, I had a relatively low draft lottery number.

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Bill Huey is president of Strategic Communications, a corporate and marketing communication consultancy, and the author of “The Gookville Murders” (Kindle, 2015).