Yes, this is considered stolen valor.
Veterans themselves can be guilty of stolen valor, even if they’ve served, by claiming awards they’ve never earned, and claiming deployments/assignments/jobs they were never on or part of. By that metric, this type of stuff posted by Trump absolutely is considered stolen valor. Especially because the intent is to obfuscate the fact that he never served. That’s also why he does crap like post his school uniform while trying to pass it off as evidence of legitimate service.
The intended target for stuff like this is low information voters and people who don’t bother to fact check. The imagery will stick with them and they will genuinely believe he served, especially because of the American people’s general ignorance of their armed forces. That same ignorance is why random crackheads can trick people into believing they served even when the crackhead is wearing a Spirit Halloween military costume.
Many Americans simply don't hear stories like this because the media doesn't report on them.
It is estimated that only ~10% of Americans have even heard of the Dorian-Alabama controversy, or "Sharpiegate", where Trump took an official NWS projection of Hurricane Dorrian's path and drew on it with a sharpie marker to falsely claim it would hit Alabama. Dorian never came close to Alabama, but Trump has insisted to date that he was correct and the NWS prediction was wrong.
In a reasonable world every American would have heard this story and gone "Holy shit this man is insane!". Instead 10% of Americans did. Only 10%.
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