Jesse Ventura Dares Barron Trump to Do What His Dad ‘Didn’t Have the Courage to’
28th March 2026
Possibly the only occasion on which The Huffington Post would publish something by someone like Jesse Ventura is one where Trump is being attacked.
“Because how can you send somebody else’s kids to a war if you won’t send your own?” he asked.
Easy. You just do it, as governments have been doing for time out of mind. You only ‘send your kids to a war’ when they are conscripted to do so, under an authoritarian regime. Everybody in the current American armed forces is a volunteer.
Trump isn’t ‘sending kids to war’, he is commanding the armed forces, of which he is commander-in-chief, in pursuit of foreign policy goals, which is what Americans elected him to do.
Jesse Ventura’s attitude is the exact same attitude as the Chinese Communists under Mao, who thought that everybody ought to put some time in hoeing crops and shoveling dirt. Jesse has always been about imposing his values on other people, which negates any respect he may have earned from his military service.
If Barron Trump wants to put in some military service, which I would certainly encourage him to do, that is his decision to make—not that of a blowhard like Jesse Ventura.