G.I. Joe has a new friend: “Cadet Bone Spurs.”
U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth, an Illinois Democrat and Army veteran who was wounded while serving in Iraq, has taken to calling President Donald Trump “Cadet Bone Spurs” — a reference to the medical diagnosis Trump received in 1968 that exempted him from military service.
After the president called Democrats “treasonous” for not clapping during last week’s State of the Union address, Duckworth tweeted Monday: “We don’t live in a dictatorship or a monarchy. I swore an oath — in the military and in the Senate — to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, not to mindlessly cater to the whims of Cadet Bone Spurs and clap when he demands I clap.”
“The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” on Tuesday imagined what a “Cadet Bone Spurs” figurine would look like. “He’d love to charge bravely into battle, it’s just that he has this thing with his heel, which causes occasional minor foot pain,” goes the ad that kicked off Tuesday’s show. While his comrades head off to battle, “Cadet Bone Spurs” is shown lying in a hammock and holding a cocktail.
“The Late Show” airs at 10:35 p.m. weeknights on CBS.
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