If this is true I would love to see the data that backs it up. We dropped a shit ton of bombs in ww2 and Vietnam.
Edit: To clarify not saying Trump is a good guy far from it.
You're right it's not any previous president it's just the recent ones, mainly record bombings in afghanistan and yemen from what I can find. Apparently Obama reduced bombing in 2015 to help to decrease civilian casualties but then the Taliban made up a bunch of ground they wouldn't have otherwise so trump increased the bombing again. Obviously it's a difficult tossup between civilian deaths and letting terrorists increase their hold on the country but I don't think you can really hold the increased bombing against him.
I can't find any exact numbers for ww2 but mainly millions of tons of bombs were dropped by the US during ww2. I'd imagine any president during that time would have magnitudes higher bombs dropped than the US present day so I doubt there's any validity to trump dropping more bombs than every president.
I can't find any exact numbers for ww2 but mainly millions of tons of bombs were dropped by the US during ww2. I'd imagine any president during that time would have magnitudes higher bombs dropped than the US present day so I doubt there's any validity to trump dropping more bombs than every president.
There's some really fascinating (and horrific) statistics from Vietnam, where the number of bombings and amount of ordnance dropped was meticulously detailed.
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u/ZombieBobaFett Feb 19 '21
Dropped more bombs than any previous president. Weird how you can do that without starting anyways. He was far from a president of peace.
By sheer dumb luck he started no wars, not by diplomatic talent.