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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Josh Marcus

Trump’s military academy bunkmate reveals nickname president earned after getting out of draft

Donald Trump was reportedly mocked by his former schoolmates as “Cadet Bonespurs” because a medical deferment allowed him to avoid the Vietnam-era draft.

That’s according to Art Davie, who once shared a room with Trump at the New York Military Academy when they were teenagers in the early 1960s.

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