• Children of deployed US troops are no longer guaranteed citizenship. This includes US troops posted abroad for years at a time (August 28, 2019)
MilitaryTimes
• On Aug 2, 2019, Trump requisitioned military retirement funds towards border wall
Newyorker
• On July 31, 2019, Trump ordered the Navy rescind medals to prosecutors who were prosecuted war criminals
NYTimes
• Trump denied a U.S. Marine of 6 years entry into the United States for his citizenship interview (Reported July 17, 2019)
Thehill
• Trump made the U.S. Navy Blue Angels violate ethics rules by having them fly at his July 4th political campaign event (July 4, 2019)
MilitaryTimes
• Trump demanded US military chiefs stand next to him at 4th of July parade (reported July 2, 2019)
MSN
• In June, 2019, Trump sent troops to the border to paint the fence for a better "aesthetic appearance"
MilitaryTimes
• Trump used his D-Day interview at a cemetery commemorating fallen US soldiers to attack a Vietnam veteran (June 6, 2019)
NYTimes
• Trump started his D-Day commemoration speech by attacking a private citizen (Bette Midler, of all people) (reported on June 4th, 2019)
Rollingstone
• Trump made his 2nd wife, Marla Maples, sign a prenup that would have cut off all child support if Tiffany joined the military (reported June 4th, 2019)
Newsweek
• On May 27, 2019, Trump turned away US military from his Memorial Day speech because they were from the destroyer USS John S. McCain
Businessinsider
• Trump ordered the USS John McCain out of sight during his visit to Japan (May 15, 2019). The ship's name was subsequently covered. (May 27, 2019)
WSJ
• Trump purged 200,000 vets' healthcare applications (due to known administrative errors within VA’s enrollment system) (reported on May 13, 2019)
MilitaryTimes
• Trump deported a spouse of fallen Army soldier killed in Afghanistan, leaving their daughter parentless (April 16, 2019)
AZcentral
• On March 20, 2019, Trump complained that a deceased war hero didn't thank him for his funeral
BBC
• Between 12/22/2018, and 1/25/2019, Trump refused to sign his party's funding bill, which shut down the government, forcing the Coast Guard to go without pay, which made service members rely on food pantries. However, his appointees got a $10,000 pay raise
CNBC
• He banned service members from serving based on gender identity (1/22/2019)
Vox
• He denied female troops access to birth control to limit sexual activity (on-going. Published Jan 18, 2019)
Businessinsider
• He tried to deport a marine vet who is a U.S.-born citizen (Jan 16, 2019)
usatoday
• When a man was caught swindling veterans pensions for high-interest “cash advances," Trump's Consumer Financial Protection Bureau fined him $1 (Jan 26, 2019)
Veteranstoday
• He called a retired general a 'dog' with a 'big, dumb mouth' (Jan 1, 2019)
CNN
• He increased privatization of the VA, leading to longer waits and higher taxpayer cost (2018)
psmag
• He finally visited troops 2 years after taking office, but only after 154 vacation days at his properties (Dec 26, 2018)
NYTimes
• He revealed a covert Seal Team 5 deployment, including names and faces, on Twitter during his visit to Iraq (Dec 26, 2018)
Newsweek
• Trump lied to deployed troops that he gave them a 10% raise (12/26/2018). He tried giving the military a raise that was lower than the standard living adjustment. Congress told him that idea wasn't going to work. Then after giving them the raise that Congress made him, he lied about it pretending that it was larger than Obama's. It wasn't.
Militarytimes
• He fired service members living with HIV just before the 2018 holidays
time.com
• He tried to slash disability and unemployment benefits for Veterans to $0, and eliminate the unemployability extrascheduler rating (Dec 17, 2018)
Stripes.com
• He called troops on Thanksgiving and told them he's most thankful for himself (Thanksgiving, 2018)
newsweek
• He urged Florida to not count deployed military votes (Nov 12, 2018)
huffpost
• He canceled an Arlington Cemetery visit on Veterans Day due to light rain (Nov 12, 2018)
MilitaryTimes
• While in Europe commemorating the end of WWI, he didn't attend the ceremony at a US cemetery due to the rain -- other world leaders went anyway (Nov 10, 2018)
BBC
• He used troops as a political prop by sending them on a phantom mission to the border and made them miss Thanksgiving with their families (Oct-Dec, 2018)
Militarytimes
• He stopped using troops as a political prop immediately after the election. However, the troops remained in muddy camps on the border (Nov 7, 2018)
NYTimes
• Trump changed the GI Bill through his Forever GI Act, causing the VA to miss veteran benefits, including housing allowances. This caused many vets to run out of food and rent. (reported October 7, 2018)
vox
• Trump doubled the rejection rate for veterans requesting family deportation protections (July 5, 2018)
newsweek
• Trump wants to deported active-duty spouses (11,800 military families face this problem as of April 2018)
NPR