Donald Trump declared himself a war hero while lamenting that he does not get enough credit for ordering bombings in Iran.
The president, who never served in the military and avoided the Vietnam draft due to a bone spur diagnosis, made the claim while speaking to conservative radio and Fox News host Mark Levin on Tuesday.
Trump discussed working with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to secure the release of hostages held by Palestinian militant group Hamas, praising the Israeli leader—who is currently facing an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court (ICC) over alleged war crimes—as a “good man.”
“He’s in there fighting, they’re trying to put him in jail on top of everything else, how about that?” Trump said on Levin’s radio show Tuesday, referring to Netanyahu’s