{"id":91518,"date":"2026-04-22T17:42:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T17:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/colbert-ironic-the-one-guy-who-could-have-won-vietnam-war-couldnt-go-because-he-had-bone-spurs\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T17:42:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T17:42:04","slug":"colbert-ironic-the-one-guy-who-could-have-won-vietnam-war-couldnt-go-because-he-had-bone-spurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/colbert-ironic-the-one-guy-who-could-have-won-vietnam-war-couldnt-go-because-he-had-bone-spurs\/","title":{"rendered":"Colbert: Ironic\u2014The One Guy Who Could Have Won Vietnam War Couldn&#8217;t Go Because He Had Bone Spurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> CBS&#8217;s &#8220;Late Show&#8221; host Stephen Colbert mocked President Trump&#8217;s comment yesterday to CNBC that if he had been president, he could have won the Vietnam War.  &#8220;I would have won Vietnam very quickly&#8211;if I were president,&#8221; <A href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/04\/21\/trump_i_expected__iran_war_to_crash_stock_market_20_and_send_oil_to_hit_200.html\">Trump told &#8220;Squawk Box&#8221; on Tuesday. <\/a>  Colbert joked: &#8220;Don&#8217;t you find that ironic-that the one guy who could&#8217;ve won the war couldn&#8217;t go because he had bone spurs?&#8221;  Former Secretary of State John Kerry added: &#8220;You showed that very telling meme of Donald Trump as Jesus. I presume if he&#8217;s Jesus, he could have cured his bone spurs first and go fight the war and win it all by himself.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/04\/22\/colbert_ironic--the_one_guy_who_could_have_won_vietnam_war_couldnt_go_because_he_had_bone_spurs.html\">RealClearPolitics Videos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBS&#8217;s &#8220;Late Show&#8221; host Stephen Colbert mocked President Trump&#8217;s comment yesterday to CNBC that if he had been president, he could have won the Vietnam War. &#8220;I would have won Vietnam very quickly&#8211;if I were president,&#8221; Trump told &#8220;Squawk Box&#8221; on Tuesday. Colbert joked: &#8220;Don&#8217;t you find that ironic-that the one guy who could&#8217;ve won [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3130,8647,6551,216,3423,28849,964,455],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}