'Ridiculous': Trump slams Washington Post over report on mandatory military service

Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday slammed The Washington Post for suggesting he supports mandatory military service. 

"The Fake News Washington Post came up with the ridiculous idea that Donald J. Trump will call for Mandatory Military Service," Trump wrote in a TRUTH Social post. "This is only a continuation of their EIGHT YEAR failed attempt to damage me with the Voters."

The Washington Post published an article entitled "In Trump's orbit, some muse about mandating military service."

The outlet reported that Christopher Miller, who served as the acting Secretary of Defense in November 2020, said mandatory service would reinforce "the bonds of civility."

Trump said he never came up with that idea and referred to the Post as a "former newspaper."

"Only a degenerate former Newspaper, which has lost 50% of its Readers, would fabricate such a tale. Just another Fake Story, one of many, made up by the DEAD Washington Compost!" he wrote.