Nikki Haley Says Trump Can't Be Trusted To Protect The Troops

GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley is attacking Donald Trump for his history of disparaging military service members after he cracked jokes about her deployed husband’s absence.

Haley, whose husband Michael Haley left for a yearlong Army deployment in June, made the rounds Monday saying Trump is unqualified for the presidency because he can’t be trusted to protect American troops.

“If you don’t respect our military, how should we think you’re going to respect them when it comes to times of war, and prevent war and keep them from going?” Haley said Monday on CNN. “If you don’t have respect for our military and our veterans, God help us all if that’s the case.”

She made similar remarks to NBC News, saying: “He showed that with that kind of disrespect for the military, he’s not qualified to be the president of the United States, because I don’t trust him to protect them.”

The former United Nations ambassador’s offensive follows remarks Trump made during a rally Saturday mocking her husband’s absence on the campaign trail.

“Where’s your husband? Oh, he’s away. He’s away. What happened to her husband? What happened to her husband? Where is he? He’s gone!” Trump said.

Haley also called out Trump’s own lack of military service.

“The most harm he’s ever come across is whether a golf ball hits him on a golf cart,” she said during a Monday gaggle to reporters in South Carolina. “And you’re gonna go and mock our men and women in the military? I don’t care what party you’re in, that’s not okay.”

Military deployment is “something you know nothing about,” she said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, directed at Trump.

In another post on X, Haley reminded her followers of multiple media reports in 2020 alleging that Trump