Trump's increase in the Defense budget is almost as much as cost for free public college for all
who want to go.
One study put the cost of free public university education at around $62 billion a year (IF we stopped public funding of for profit Trump Universities).
We already spend more on our military than nearly all of the rest of the world combined, have bases in more countries than everyone else combine, and in several categories of weapons, we have no peers.
We have twice as many aircraft carriers as the rest of the world combined.
Only Russia has thousands of nukes like we do.
The UK, France, China, India, and Pakistan around 100-300 each.
Estimates about Israel's stockpile vary, but like four of the five above, they are our allies.
Russia and China are primarily threats to us if we go to them. Apart from Russia's nukes, both countries' military might shrinks exponentially the farther they get outside their own borders.
I think there's near zero chance of Trump proposing or signing off on free public higher education.
But this needs to be said.