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."
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.
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.
Who The Hell Let Trump Into Arlington National Cemetery?
“When you’re a star, they let you do it”
Edit: I was 100% making a joke, but it seems to actually be that: https://www.npr.org/2024/08/27/nx-s1-5091154/trump-arlington-cemetery
When the cemetery official tried to prevent Trump campaign staff from entering Section 60, campaign staff verbally abused and pushed the official aside, according to the source.
I think the question still stands. Who specifically let him in, because this was a failure of some sort of chain of command at the cemetery
Per the Arlington National Cemetery’s site (which is a .mil TLD) states:
The Office of Army Cemeteries (OAC), consisting of Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia and Soldiers’ and Airmen’s Home National Cemetery in Washington, D.C., is under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Army.
And when on guard duty, the greenest buck Private has full authority to stop the Secretary of the Army themselves if they refuse to provide identification and authorization for their presence at the posting said Private is guarding. So the correct and appropriate answer would have been to immediately restrain and arrest whoever was doing the pushing and intimidating, as well as any other shitass in the group who was trying to play fucky-fuck games like this.
Sure, but imagine being in that kid’s position. Not only would you be attempting to detain a man (the former Commander in Chief, believe it or not) with his own Secret Service detail, but you would likely end up with a bunch of unwanted attention and subsequent death and rape threats from Trump supporters.
How sad is it that this is what this man has done to American politics? That so many people still support this gutter trash, really showing their true faces.
do they have the authority to keep him out completely? they drew a line at the new section which is where the altercation was.
It’s a public cemetery, so I don’t take issue with him being there and acting respectfully. The problem comes when he uses it as a publicity stunt and gives the thumbs up when he’s placing the wreath.
It’s specifically against federal law to use military cemeteries for campaign purposes. Presidents often lay of wreath there on Memorial Day, but they’re already President and not campaigning.
We have enough issues in the US with glorifying the military for political purposes. Let’s not go backwards on this one.
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?
Aw cut him slack, he looks great in a cemetery! I think he should do it more often.
