Trump says he has not visited the troops abroad because he is "very busy"

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Trump told the Associated Press that even though he did not think it was "excessively necessary" to go to a military base located in a combat zone, he had no problem. intention to do so "at some point" in the future.

"I was very busy with everything that's going on here," Trump said in Tuesday's interview.

"I do a lot of things. But that's something I would do. And do it willingly, "continued the president. "No one has been better at the army. Hey, I just got them a pay raise. I have not had a salary increase for 11 years … I have done more for the army than any president for many, many years. "

Stressing the increase in the number of soldiers serving in danger in Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq and Africa since taking office, Trump said he must keep his soldiers abroad "to ensure security. from his country".

"The main thing I have to see is that I have to see the security at home … If I think that people are likely to do very bad things in distant places of our country, I will have troops there for a while. ," he said.

Trump, who calls himself "the most militaristic person you meet," criticized some veterans who refused to visit military personnel operating abroad, a long-standing tradition of US presidents.

Alexander McCoy, former sergeant of the US Marine Corps and spokesman for the Common Defense Common Defense Organization, who criticized the president, told the New York Daily News in a report released on Wednesday that "veterans are not not surprised "going to war, having used his wealth and his relations with the elite to avoid the project five times while the working class people came in his place. "

"What makes us even more furious is not that he does not visit us in the combat zones, but that he continues to make the reckless escalation and prolong the unnecessary quagmire wars he makes us fight, while at home, he uses us as political props. for his program of using bigotry to divide us so that he could give tax cuts to himself and his fellow billionaires, "he added.