The sad truth is that after barely seven months in office Donald Trump is the most hawkish president in modern history as the Council on Foreign Relation s Micah Zenko put it By the end of July Trump had already dropped almost as many bombs in his first six months in office as Barack Obama did in the whole of 2016 As of July 31 Trump had dropped 20 650 bombs in 2017 compared to Obama s 26 171 for all of last year 