Duckworth says she’ll take ‘wheelchair and my titanium legs’ over Trump’s ‘supposed bone spurs any day’

Army veteran and Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) hit President Trump over his reported comments disparaging fallen soldiers on Friday, citing injuries she sustained in the line of duty.

“I take my wheelchair and my titanium legs over Donald Trump’s supposed bone spurs any day,” Duckworth, who lost both her legs while serving in Iraq, said in a call for former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign. 

Duckworth was referring to Trump’s deferment from the Vietnam War draft due to a bone spurs diagnosis despite an otherwise healthy physical examination. 

Her comments on Friday followed an article from The Atlantic, citing a number of unnamed sources, that said the president canceled a trip to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris in 2018 because he worried his hair would be disheveled by the rain. 

Trump has aggressively denied the report, calling it “fake news” and a “disgrace.” 

Duckworth said she was not shocked about the report, saying it matches with Trump’s past rhetoric on service members in the past.