"Look what I have. I have everything!"
Donald Trump completely misses the point of Memorial Day
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Donald Trump began the morning of Memorial day with a rage tweet, then placed a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier before he made an instantly forgettable speech.
Then he went out for a round of golf.
The rage tweet, delivered just before 7 a.m.,was vintage Donald Trump; written in all caps and disparaging those who he despised – at least half of the country:
“HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY TO ALL, INCLUDING THE SCUM THAT SPENT THE LAST FOUR YEARS TRYING TO DESTROY OUR COUNTRY THROUGH WARPED RADICAL LEFT MINDS, WHO ALLOWED 21,000,000 MILLION PEOPLE TO ILLEGALLY ENTER OUR COUNTRY, MANY OF THEM BEING CRIMINALS AND THE MENTALLY INSANE,THROUGH AN OPEN BORDER THAT ONLY AN INCOMPETENT PRESIDENT WOULD APPROVE, AND THROUGH JUDGES WHO ARE ON A MISSION TO KEEP MURDERERS, DRUG DEALERS, RAPISTS, GANG MEMBERS, AND RELEASED PRISONERS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD, IN OUR COUNTRY SO THEY CAN ROB, MURDER, AND RAPE AGAIN — ALL PROTECTED BY THESE USA HATING JUDGES WHO SUFFER FROM AN IDEOLOGY THAT IS SICK, AND VERY DANGEROUS FOR OUR COUNTRY. HOPEFULLY THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT, AND OTHER GOOD AND COMPASSIONATE JUDGES THROUGHOUT THE LAND, WILL SAVE US FROM THE DECISIONS OF THE MONSTERS WHO WANT OUR COUNTRY TO GO TO HELL. BUT FEAR NOT, WE HAVE MADE GREAT PROGRESS OVER THE LAST 4 MONTHS, AND AMERICA WILL SOON BE SAFE AND GREAT AGAIN! AGAIN, HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY, AND GOD BLESS AMERICA!”
Not only were his facts in error about the number of illegal entries, but it should be noted that during Trump’s first administration he cheered each week as “Infrastructure Week” at the White House. Yet, he never produced an infrastructure bill.
Joe Biden, the guy Trump always calls “incompetent” signed the Bipartisan Infrastructure bill into law on November 15, 2021, less than a year after walking into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Despite Trump’s continued withering insults tossed at the former president, he has shown no ability to get anything done with the label “bipartisan” attached to it.
Most of the Memorial Day tweet has nothing to do with Memorial Day, unless you’re memorializing hate. But Trump didn’t care. By the time that Truth Social post sunk in, the man who avoided serving his country because of bone spurs, who once denigrated Gold Start families, POWs and famously called those who died in battle “losers” was busy laying a wreath on the tomb of the unknown soldier at Arlington National Cemetery.
A short time after that he made a 20 minute speech in which he applauded the sacrifice of the members of the military who “live for others” before he took another swipe at Biden. "Those young men could never have known what their sacrifice would mean to us, but we certainly know what we owe to them. That valor gave us the freest, greatest and most noble Republic ever to exist on the face of the earth. A republic that I am fixing after a long and hard four years. That was a hard four years we went through," Trump said.
Well, at least he was consistent.
But nothing could top Trump’s self-adulation as he mentioned the military parade planned for his 79th birthday. It’s supposedly about America’s 250th birthday, but Trump obviously thinks it is all about him. He also cheered the 2026 World Cup and the 2028 Olympics coming to the United States before remarking that if he had won the 2020 election which he still claims that he did, he wouldn’t be president now to enjoy such festivities.
Yeah, figure out that logic.
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"Can you imagine I missed that four years? Now look what I have. I have everything. Amazing the way things work out. God did that, I believe that, too," he said.
Yes, God, in his infinite wisdom is sitting in Heaven making sure that Donald Trump is happy. The almighty has no care for Gold Star families who’ve lost their loved ones, but Der Leader gets favored nation status with Gawd.
One person who doesn’t care if Trump is happy is Vladimir Putin.
The day before Trump managed to turn Memorial Day into another congratulatory slap on his own back, the Russian leader bombed Kyiv.
Trump, in a quick question and answer session with the traveling pool of White House reporters, lost it Sunday talking about Putin. “I'm not happy with what Putin's doing. He's killing a lot of people. And I don't know what the hell happened to Putin. I've known him a long time, always gotten along with him, but he's sending rockets into cities and killing people and I don't like it at all. We're in the middle of talking and he's sending rockets into Kyiv and other cities. I don't like it at all. I'm very surprised. We'll see what we're going to do.... I don't like what Putin is doing... he's killing people. Something happened to this guy and I don't like it,” Trump said.
I get the idea that he doesn’t like it at all.
But he shouldn’t be surprised. Putin has been bombing, killing and fighting in Ukraine for a decade. Now Trump is surprised?
Maybe so, because back in March he was singing a different tune:
The fact is Putin played Trump much like Trump played Bill Maher.
Sometimes the easiest person to con is the con man.
The facts show that Putin has never shown the slightest inclination toward stopping the invasion of Ukraine. Bombing it while he’s on the phone with Trump is just the exclamation point to the disrespect and disdain he shows to Ukraine and Trump on a daily basis.
Many presidents would be upset. Some would do something about it.
Then there’s Donald Trump. Shortly after he left his speech in Arlington, he made his way to his favorite local golf course and did no more work for the day.
Brian Karem is an award-winning reporter, columnist, and author of "Free the Press," and seven others books. He has a popular podcast and Substack, "Just Ask The Question,” as well as a related Substack "Reporter’s Notebook.” You SHOULD subscribe to BOTH
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By their votes or failure to vote, the American people did this. Those two groups own it. Those who did all we could to avoid that outcome (which does not, it seems, include President Biden or the leadership of the Democratic party) do not. He is not "our" President. He is the leader of a toxic segment of our population unworthy of the sacrifices of those whom Memorial Day honors, my late father, his two brothers, and my father-in-law among them.
Whether we can or will recover from this horrific attack on everything good about this country is uncertain at best, but I think unlikely. The damage is already severe, and some of it will prove irreversible, especially the loss of trust in our nation's word, which can clearly be broken at whim by a fickle electorate and a demagogic narcissist.
If one of us is not free, then none of us is free.