Mayor Pete Buttigieg is standing up for NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick's right to kneel during the national anthem.
“The way I feel about it is the flag that was on my shoulder when I served represented, among other things, our right to free speech,” said Mayor Pete to TMZ while in New York City. “You don’t have to like it, but one of the reasons we serve was to defend that right, the right of peaceful protest and the idea that we can protest what is wrong with our country.”
“If the president had served, maybe he’d feel a little more strongly about some of those freedoms," Pete added. "And, I get that there’s a lot of strong opinions about this, but that’s part of why we served.”
Speaking to the nation's governors today about the deputy sheriff who failed to intervene during the gun massacre at Stoneman Douglas High School, Donald Trump said, "I really believe I'd run in there, even if I didn't have a weapon."
WATCH: "I really believe I'd run in there, even if I didn't have a weapon," President Trump asserts while discussing Florida school mass shooting response. https://t.co/KvQU9lpFGrpic.twitter.com/keCu0FrF92
This would be the same Donald Trump who dodged the Vietnam draft five times claiming he had "bone spurs" in one of his feet (he can't seem to remember which foot).
"I really believe I'd run in there even if I didn't have a weapon," Trump said, according to The Associated Press. I believe you, Captain Bone Spurs & I really believe that due to an unexpected write-in vote, I'll win an Oscar this Sunday. #ItsFunToPretend
• Folks were wondering about Donald Trump's unusual speech impediment during his announcement that the U.S. would recognize Jerusalem as the capitol of Israel. Many suspect his dentures came loose. Take a listen and decide for your self.
🔥🔥Sooo this is interesting. Trump’s dentures are trying to escape his mouth as this speech is ending. Join the club dentures! Unbelievable. pic.twitter.com/QqYv7whxDF
• Pot meet kettle: Steven Bannon criticized 2012 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney saying he avoided military service by serving his Mormon mission during Vietnam. Ironic since Bannon shepherded Donald Trump to the presidency. Trump famously received deferment after deferment for "bone spurs" during Vietnam.
• For the first time in history, a cast member of the Broadway production of CATSwas involved in an incident with a dog during a performance.
• Retired pro soccer star Robbie Rogers married TV and film producer Greg Berlanti. The twosome have been a couple since 2013 and became engaged last December. They are parents to adorable Caleb, who they had via surrogate in February 2016.
Donald Trump has raised eyebrows for saying that although he dodged the draft during the Vietnam war, he feels his prep school experience made him feel like he was in the military.
"My number was so incredible and it was a very high draft number. Anyway so I never had to do that, but I felt that I was in the military in the true sense because I dealt with those people," Trump told Michael D’Antonio, the author of the forthcoming book "Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success," according to a preview in the New York Times.
Trump attended the New York Military Academy from eighth grade through the end of high school where he participated in military drills and encountered some instructors who had served in the military, according to the Times.
He told D'Antonio that at the academy, he got "more training militarily than a lot of the guys that go into the military."
The comments didn't land lightly at the Pentagon where more than one soldier had a less than enthusiastic response.
“Did he have to swear-in to get into his school?” one soldier asked.
Another soldier responded saying, “Well it could be true. It depends on what kind of pillow fights he got into."
