For Trump, trouble began on several of these fronts before he was even in office. He dismissed the service and sacrifice of Sen. John McCain and, by implication, all those who had suffered as prisoners of war. Hes not a war hero, Trump said while campaigning in Iowa. I like people who werent captured. He engaged in a back-and-forth with Khizr and Ghazala Khan, Gold Star parents whose son, Army Capt.