Well, luckily for the former president*‘s campaign, it wasn’t raining on Monday, when he grotesquely used Arlington National Cemetery as a campaign prop because, as we know, he gets a little nervous around soldiers’ graves in the rain, and he says things that require him to lie his ass off later. Most recently, of course, he devalued the Congressional Medal of Honor in favor of a bauble he draped on Rush Limbaugh and the wife of one of the sleaziest of his sleazy donors.
I think the bigger story is that someone from the cemetery asked that they not shoot photos/video of the section of the cemetery they were in, and then Trump’s campaign staff verbally and physically assaulted the cemetery staff.
So he has now disparaged soldiers at said cemetery, now exploited recently fallen soldiers laid to rest in said cemetery to try and cover for the prior disparaging (as well as the medal of honor), and then assault staff of said cemetery because they tried to stop them from exploiting the cemetery.
You know it’s a cult because it’s the only way to explain how veterans can look past his flagrant disdain for soldiers, and still stand by him while his campaign disparages Walz for his service.
It’s not just that they were asked not to, it’s a federal law. So just add another broken law to the pile I guess?
Also, look at this statement from Trump’s campaign spokesperson. What kind of PR person talks like this?? Trumpism is a disease.
”…for whatever reason an unnamed individual, clearly suffering from a mental health episode, decided to physically block members of President Trump’s team during a very solemn ceremony."
It’s not just that, it’s also that a man assaulted a woman doing her job AND THEN their spokesperson had the audacity later to basically call her hysterical for it.
I’ll give jack smith $20 to file charges
Also, the staff member has refused to follow up on any charges, because they fear retaliation from the cult of 45.
This one will get a few heads turned. Veterans dislike him screwing with vet care, but they can go either side will screw with veteran services.
Then pushing past an army card in uniform at a veteran cemetery, that will even piss off a significant number of his base.
cemetery staff
Who exactly is staffed at this cemetery? I’m honestly not sure…Ive checked a few news sources and can only find ‘an official.’ Are they active duty military personnel? Did trumps team assault a uniformed soldier? Why isn’t it being put this way anywhere?
It involved the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier so it’s entirely possible. I’m honestly impressed the Infantry guarding it didn’t put the campaign staffers in the hospital.
I thought if you approach that particular monument, you get shot
That’s the myth but no. There is a loaded weapon nearby, but it’s not for overzealous tourists. Those guards do not need a weapon to put you back behind the rope.
Bit of a mix I would guess. Civilian (GS federal employees) and Honor Guard “volunteers” from the various branches.
veterans can look past his flagrant disdain for soldiers, and still stand by him while his campaign disparages Walz for his service.
It’s absolutely shameful
My grandfather is buried in that cemetery. He joined the army to stop men like him from taking power.
The disrespect is palpable, he might as well spit on my Abuelo’s grave while he’s at it.
I’m really sorry, that is infuriating.
He’s trying to pretend he likes the military after all the shit the last few weeks.
The other day he did a conference at some National Guard thing.
He’s disgusting.
Imagine being (former or current) military, and voting for this clown. After literally, explicitly insulting you several times. Unreal.
I can’t imagine it and I am former military. If he had done none of his shit up until now, this would disqualifying on it’s own. It’s hard to put into words just how sacred that soil is when you’ve watched coffins go into cargo planes at 3 in the morning.
Good faith question: what are the chances you are in a very small minority? How will military members who weren’t deployed into combat react?
The military loves Trump so much that the active duty guys voted blue in 2020. I don’t want to say it’s some kind of democratic awakening in the military, it’s not. But the military conservatives refused to vote for him in large numbers.
The largest section of support for him in the veterans community is the older generation. The GWOT generation runs about 50/50 voting and from what I can tell it’s much the same as civilians for people willing to fight for him. If they’re in Qanon or a racist militia then yeah. But most of us really aren’t.
There are stunts he pulled with the military that civilians weren’t really aware of. He tried to force the regular army to go after protestors, a huge nono. He lied about casualties overseas, as family were being notified with red cross messages. He refused to honor our dead. He stole funding from K-12 schools for military children. And he constantly shit talked leaders we knew were our best and ten times the man he could ever be.
That’s on top of the stuff everyone knows about, like denigrating John McCain, disabled people, and Gold Star families.
So yeah, it’s not a small minority. Half of us fully hate him. A quarter of us wish the Republicans would run someone else.
Thanks for sharing your observations. All I had to go on was every former military person I knew was hard core trump in 2016… Talking about they were voting for him because they knew what leadership looked like.
Wasn’t stateside for 2020 so I didn’t have any exposure to these types.
Yeah in 2016 veterans really went for him for some reason. Which is weird, usually we can spot an empty suit a mile off. But he really screwed up with us in those 4 years.
In the picture from the cemetery is a guy with a leg prosthetic. If he is a purple heart vet… how could he not use his prosthetic to beat the man that insulted him and everyone like it.
Aw cut him slack, he looks great in a cemetery! I think he should do it more often.
I look forward to the day he becomes a permanent resident of one
I don’t envy the groundskeeper of that place. People will be using that plot as a bathroom for years.
Perhaps more importantly, who let that photo of his weenie little hands gently caressing the wreath as if it were his daughter’s ass be released?
Probably Judge Cannon… I have no proof of it but it tracks with their record.
“See I don’t hate suckers and losers guys! 🤪🤪🤪”
Or was he giving a thumbs up that the loser is dead and not costing more money.
Mike Johnson pulled strings to make it happen…
“He’s the former president, surely he won’t… Uh oh… Well shit.”
I want him buried in a cemetery sooner rather than later. I 'd love for him to have a stroke during the debate and fall over dead on TV. Then they can bury him in the rough on one of his golf courses on election day.
He can get the same treatment as his ex-wife Ivana Trump. Buried at the golf course, cordoned off, and left to rot. With no one tending his grave and the plants taking over until everyone forgets about this taint stain.
The botched Afghanistan withdrawal that he signed with the Taliban… This was his deal that he left Biden to deal with the repercussions
