3d ago

Donald Trump to skip US soldier memorial, White House confirms

www.newsweek.com

Summary

Donald Trump will not attend the dignified transfer of four U.S. soldiers killed during a training exercise in Lithuania.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will represent the administration at Dover Air Force Base. Critics noted Trump’s rare attendance at such ceremonies, citing just four appearances during his first term.

The soldiers’ remains were found in a peat bog after a March 25 accident.

Trump is instead scheduled to attend a dinner at Mar-a-Lago. Lithuania’s president honored the fallen at a repatriation ceremony, drawing contrast with Trump’s absence.

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Nothing more patriotic than a fat orange Russian muppet playing golf at a resort that tax payers now pay for to protect him while he gives the middle finger to the U.S. military. Truly a gift to humanity is what this dumb fucking clown is.
- Nothing more American than LARPing as a patriot while selfishly screwing your fellow countrymen.
- He needs to be put in the ground.
  
  Not all of him. I would personally like to see his head sealed in lucite and mounted on a pike on the west lawn.
  
  I know a peat bog he could take a ride at.
- .... and in this day in age ... nothing more American than in having Americans put up with it all
  If any previous American president had done this, it would have been headline news for months .... for this administration it's completely normalized ... it doesn't show bad the government is ... it shows how dumbed down the country has become.
  
  American citizens are not putting up with it all. There are massive protests in every city in America every weekend.
  The problem is the the media is barely covering it at all, so people keep saying that Americans arent doing anything about it.
  By next summer, every weekend will see MULTIPLE simultaneous major demonstrations in every major city across America, protesting multiple issues. That's when HitlerPig will turn the military and law enforcemnt against the protesters in a Tiananmen-style response that will allow him to impose Martial Law and cancel the mid-term elections, and preserve his Congressional majorities.
  
  “It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent now would have tolerated behavior like that from me, or a whole bunch of my predecessors.” -- prez Obama
  
  Actually, I think it shows how susceptible people are to what media tells them. The word is getting out to resist and organize. Traditional media doesn't have full control, but it is working to slow the reaction down.
  Furthermore, people have a much tighter leash to their corporate overlords/sponsors, they have to be strategic about which protest (if they even have the energy).
  So yeah, it's dumb and circumstances. But we've been been engineered down this path for the past few decades, it's coming for you too.
  Fuck capitalism.
- Those dead imperialists can rot in hell
  
  "the most exploited classes can rot in hell for taking an act of desperation in the hopes of surviving their contract period and getting any chance at a living wage and an education"
  fuck off with your bullshit. this mentality doesn't help anyone and isn't any different from right wing virtue signaling
  
  By dead imperialists, are you referring to the soldiers?

10 years ago if you made this guy a villain in a movie it would be so overdone you'd lose suspension of disbelief.
- You know hour I know you’re right? Because they did. Multiple old film villains were based on him. Biff, Clamp, Gecko, etc.
  
  Some More News did like a 3 hour video about this a few years back. Worth watching.

"Those suckers are less important than my grifting." - Donald "Fuck the Troops" Trump
- Also what he said during a photo-op at the tomb of the unknown soldier
  
  he barged into the cemetry and got a photo op, and the family just couldnt stop cheering him on, thats the most unbelievable part. while ignoring another soldier that was interred there,
- "I like soldiers who don't have training accidents."
- Not even grifting. He's fucking golfing.
  Edit: immediately after typing that I remembered his golfing is a fucking grift.

As expected from someone who openly calls fallen members of the military "losers".
Remember this, American forces, when he sends you to war with your long-term allies.

Who in Their RIGHT MIND would Honor such LOSERS and SUCKERS? And I DONT feel BAD Saying that Because ~~Losers and Suckers~~ Veterans voted OVERWHELMINGLY for Trump!
- I don't know why people down vote you... I guess they don't understand the reference ^^

The end of the American Century was when this asshole didn't go to the memorial for the centenary of the end of WWI. Because it was raining.
- The end of the American century was when he bragged about grabbing women by the pussy and it didn’t matter. Or mocking a disabled guy, and that didn’t matter. Or, long before that, talking about how he wants to fuck his daughter and that didn’t matter. Or…
- His make-up might run. Think of the bronzer!

No soldier with any sense of awareness to the fact that Donald Trump is an enemy to the US (which admittedly is depressingly few), would want him there anyway.

Of course Cheeto won't attend the funeral of a bunch of losers. He likes soldiers, not dead losers, rite?

I expect nothing else from ol' Cheeto Face. He thought John McCain was a loser for getting shot down over Vietnam and being held as a POW, so I can only imagine what he would think of a bunch of guys drowning in a bog.

And yet i don't hear enough of them even talking about it. They aren't seeing this. It's just not making it into their info sphere or whatever cool black mirror name we gonna shoot for next.
- We talk about it. A lot. At least my division and command does, both enlisted and officers. There were vets on April 5th that talked about it too, on the bullhorn.
- It's because they don't want to hear it.

Imagine how angry gop would be if the democrats would do this...

Fox News would've blamed Biden for the soldiers deaths and Biden would've been attending the transfer and taking all kinds of shitty media coverage over it. Instead, Trump goes golfing and no one cares.

I guess the only reason this is newsworthy is because we need the US military to turn against their commander and chief when he tries to hold the office indefinitely.
Kinda fucked the author didn't say this in the "Why It Matters" section

And they will happily vote for him again.

Meanwhile, there are still MAGoos burning over Obama's 'latte salute.'

ironic SEO image, at this point is Newsweek anything but a low quality right-wing rag?
Unlike most large American magazines, Newsweek has not used fact-checkers since 1996.
...
In November 2022, the Southern Poverty Law Center reported that Newsweek had "taken a marked radical right turn by buoying extremists and promoting authoritarian leaders" since it hired conservative political activist Josh Hammer as editor-at-large. It noted the magazine's elevation of conspiracy theorists, publication of conspiracy theories about COVID-19, views such as support for a ban on all legal immigration to the United States and denying adults access to trans-affirming medical care, and failure to disclose potential conflicts of interest in the content published on Hammer's opinion section and podcast.
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removed’s bone spurs must act up anytime someone talks about actual soldiers and not Meal Team Six

So military question, in America do civilians salute ? I see Trump saluting in a suit. In my country that's a no-no. Only military personnel in uniform and appropriate head apparel may salute, like all the soldiers next to Trump. Or is the president considered a military person since he's commander in chief ?
I mean civilians can salute if they want. There's no penalty. It just doesn't carry any meaning from a civilian and looks kind of goofy and out of place. Military personnel can't salute out of uniform, though. You may get disciplined over that.
- It's normal for the US president to salute our troops. It was not normal when he saluted North Korea's troops.
  
  It's not considered normal though for the president to have a resident billionaire dick-sucker that goes around doing Nazi salutes and supporting far right wing agendas in other nations though is it?
  
  Thanks! It's interesting to find out how differently things are in military procedure in other parts of the world.
- It has become a tradition for presidents to do it, but it's not part of actual customs and curtesies. You're really not supposed to salute out of uniform. You are supposed to salute an officer if you know they're an officer and you are in uniform, but if they're in civilian clothes, they're not supposed to salute back. Instead, just give an at ease.

Nooooooo, you don’t say!

Think he’s going to want to win the hearts of the military pretty soon.

Hopefully other people will look at this and realize they shouldn't die for this shithole country.

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