The Executive Branch.

This is how the very first commander in chief chose to be seen by future generations. A president of the United States wearing officer uniform with a blue sash across his chest displaying his presidential office.
Again, there is absolutely nothing to prevent any of US Presidents former or current from wearing any military fatigues they wish, much like the rest of citizens of the United States. One could be faulted for impersonating someone as official figure on duty, however use of military uniform items on its own by no means are restricted to any group of US society or office.
It could be seen as highly controversial should one choose to wear uniform of galactic empire storm trooper or that of a World War Two era Nazi officer. But the idea of US president wearing combat fatigues when visiting troops in theater of operations has been floated as a possibility and used in the past.
And there are plenty of examples of how military uniform or its components Find a way into the historical portrayals of US presidents.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/our-government/the-executive-branch/
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Whilst the revocation of honorary degrees is becoming ever more common since Keele University got the ball rolling by withdrawing the Honorary Degree it had awarded to Kurt Waldheim in 1980 and then Edinburgh University revoked Robert Mugabe’s honorary back in 2007, it is pretty rare for a serving head of state to be stripped of honours.
Still, it has happened to Donald Trump. Perhaps surprisingly, or perhaps not, Trump has been awarded only five honorary degrees and two of them are from the same university. One of them was rescinded before he took office by Robert Gordon University which had awarded an honorary to him in 2010 but after he made a speech calling for Muslims to be banned from entering the US an online petition was launched to have it revoked. Within a few days it was:
A spokesman for RGU said: “In 2010 Robert Gordon University awarded an honourary DBA to Mr Donald Trump, in recognition of his achievements as an entrepreneur and businessman.
“In the court of the current US election campaign, Mr Trump has made a number of statements that are wholly incompatible with the ehtos and values of the university.
“The university has therefore decided to revoke its award of the honorary degree.”
The degree was awarded when Mr Trump had been building his £750 million golf course in Menie and RGU said it had chosen to confer the honour in recognition of his business acumen, entrepreneurial vision and the long-term future his company had planned in the north-east.
There has long been a campaign to seek revocation of his honorary from LeHigh University (awarded in 1988) but it took the events of the final days of Trump’s term for this finally to happen:
Lehigh University has revoked an honorary degree that President Trump held for more than 30 years. The Pennsylvania school’s board of trustees held a special vote this week after Trump incited an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
Numerous petitions had previously sought to rescind the honor for Trump, who was awarded the degree when he spoke at the school’s commencement ceremony in 1988.
Three years ago, one such effort garnered nearly 80,000 signatures. That petition drive also presented a point-by-point argument that accused the president of falling short of the university’s values.
“This individual should reflect the goals and values of Lehigh University,” the petition noted, quoting the school’s official policy for commencement speakers, who are routinely awarded honorary degrees. “Nominees should be someone whose work and achievements reflect our value system at Lehigh.”
On Thursday, Lehigh University President John Simon issued a statement calling the events at the Capitol a “violent assault” on U.S. democracy, the will of the American people and the transfer of power.
On the same day Wagner College also announced, in a rather terse statement, that it was revoking the honorary it had awarded him in 2004.
This leaves Trump with just two honorary degrees, both from his friend Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University. He was awarded an honorary DBA by Liberty in 2012 and then a second honorary, a Doctor of Laws, in 2017.
Liberty doesn’t look like revoking these anytime soon although there is a campaign for them to do so. And there are some who argue that they should award him another one:
Former Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr., who gave Trump those honorary degrees, released the following statement to 10 News “I’d give him another degree if I was still at LU. He’s done nothing wrong but had an election stolen from him by thugs. He said nothing to incite violence at that rally. And he fulfilled all his campaign promises as president. That almost never happened before.”
So that series of blatant untruths would make a further honorary alright then.

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