Though he is nearly two years into his presidency, Trump has yet to visit U.S. troops in a combat zone, something his four most recent predecessors all did. Last month, Trump, who has spent more than 100 days of his presidency golfing, told the Associated Press that he believed such a trip is not “overly necessary. I’ve been very busy with everything that’s taking place here.”

All of this perhaps should not be surprising, given how Trump as a candidate mocked the suffering of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) in a North Vietnamese prison and attacked a Gold Star family.

Yet he often pounds his chest and claims “nobody has been better at the military.”

Just last Friday, as he was leaving for Europe, Trump told reporters: “I’ll never forgive [Barack Obama] for what he did to our U.S. military. It was depleted, and I had to fix it. What he did to our military made this country very unsafe for you and you and you.” Military spending did indeed take cuts while Obama was president, but he shares the blame for that with the Republican Congress, which imposed automatic curbs, known as sequestration, as part of a deficit-reduction package.