This portrayal is belied by evidence that Trump’s popularity with the military has significantly declined—a loss of popularity that’s easily explainable given the mismatch between the military’s professional ethic, which prizes norms and standards, and Trump’s disdain for all norms and standards. Shortly after the Military Times broke its story about Trump’s declining popularity among U.S. troops, the Trump campaign released a list of some 700 veterans who professed their support for his reelection. To explain away his ringing lack of senior endorsements, Trump has politicized the senior brass in a new and dangerously divisive way by claiming that U.S. military leaders are warmongers opposed to the peacemaker Trump.