which time?Member when he wanted to pull the troops out of Afghanistan and the Pentagon was all "Oh, no you don't." ?
don't get me wrong, I'm on the "never shoulda gone" side of the Afghan War so I'm all about bringing the troops home from literally every foreign country.
But remember when he grew the Pentagon annual budget to $725B?
What do you think would hurt the Deep State more: pulling 4k troops out of Kabul, or cutting their budget to equal the next highest nation (China: $261B)?
"I brought the Troops home" was a re-election talking point that would have carried a lot of water with MAGAstanis. But he put Swamp Monsters around Mattis, and when Mattis finally said Fuck This, Pres Trump replaced him with a 30yr Exec from Boeing. And when that guy left he replaced him with an AEROSPACE DEFENSE LOBBYIST.
tell me more of this Deep State battle valiant Sir Trump waged with the DoD...