I am not a military person. In fact I deplore all forms of military conflict and think that all international turmoil can and should be resolved through diplomacy. Yet I can’t be the only person who feels like gagging whenever we are treated to images of Donald Trump saluting. This is a guy who famously dodged the draft to avoid being sent to Vietnam, but now he is shown saluting like some great military leader whenever he walks past an actual soldier. We were treated to such images again this morning. What gets to me is the vitriol with which he salutes, as if the action is an innate part of his identity and natural to him, even though he thought himself above serving with his fellow countrymen. Again, I am by no means a military person, but I think I have a sense of integrity, so if I was I would find such a display actively insulting. The man is obviously putting on a perverse, cynical act, pretending to be something he isn’t, claiming the reverence awarded to those he once deserted and trying to play us all for fools.