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Title: War veterans slam Donald Trump for his self-congratulatory Memorial Day tweet
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WION
URL Source: http://www.wionews.com/world/war-ve ... tory-memorial-day-tweet-140523
Published: May 29, 2018
Author: Web Team
Post Date: 2018-05-29 11:10:32 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 1961
Comments: 23
United States President Donald Trump joined Americans in paying tribute to the soldiers who lost their lives while serving in the military services. However, the president's twitter wishes did not go very well with the war veterans and sparked an outcry on social media. Donald Trump tweeted stating that dead veterans would be happy and proud "at how well our country is doing today". Trump wrote, "Happy Memorial Day! Those who died for our great country would be very happy and proud at how well our country is doing today. Best economy in decades, lowest unemployment numbers for Blacks and Hispanics EVER (& women in 18years), rebuilding our Military and so much more. Nice!" The veterans slammed the president and called his tweet the "most inappropriate" memorial day comment ever made by an American president. "This is the most inappropriate #MemorialDay comment that a @POTUS has ever made. Self-promotion on a day to remember the fallen, and wishing those remembering their deceased loved ones a “happy” holiday is appalling. #CadetBoneSpurs," noted a group of war veterans. The group was also furious at the Republican Party's effort to raise funds on Memorial Day by offering a 25 per cent discount on official Trump campaign merchandise. "Really @GOP? You think this is what’s #MemorialDay is all about. Maybe you can #TakeAKnee and remember the fallen", the group tweeted in response to the Republican party's Memorial Day deal. Several others, including family members of soldiers and veterans, expressed their anger on Twitter. “Mr. President: My father was MIA in Vietnam for 30 years. I will visit him at Arlington today. There is nothing “happy” about #MemorialDay,” tweeted retired US Army Major General @PaulDEaton52. https://t.co/FwIjFGQENz — VoteVets (@votevets) May 28, 2018 "Me"-morial Day. — Mike Bender (@MikeBenderVO) May 28, 2018 Many people question this president, but it’s no small achievement to write the grossest, most inappropriate, most self-flattering Memorial Day message in the history of the US presidency https://t.co/t8JN7JNwdg — David Frum (@davidfrum) May 28, 2018 I don’t think I’ve EVER heard ANYONE say, “Happy Memorial Day”. My Dad, a Purple Heart-wearing Vietnam Veteran, is disgusted with this POtuS. #IgnorantAss — KimAnnAlt (@kimannalt) May 28, 2018 Donald Trumps Memorial Day speech... Really @GOP? You think this is what’s #MemorialDay is all about. Maybe you can #TakeAKnee and remember the fallen. pic.twitter.com/Fakq5TOEWF — VoteVets (@votevets) May 28, 2018 This is the most inappropriate #MemorialDay comment that a @POTUS has ever made. Self-promotion on a day to remember the fallen, and wishing those remembering their deceased loved ones a “happy” holiday is appalling. #CadetBoneSpurs pic.twitter.com/kRse4dnwiu — VoteVets (@votevets) May 28, 2018 The Memorial Day is a federal holiday in the United States which is observed to remember American martyrs.
pic.twitter.com/eoC2C23ZrJ — Anne Boleyn (@MsAnneBoleyn) May 28, 2018
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#1. To: All (#0)
President Trump should have mentioned his Vietnam Medal. Trump makes you crazy, doesn't he?
It's not "The Memorial Day". It's "Memorial Day" Also, a martyr is one who voluntarily suffers death. Our servicemen and women may have voluntarily served, but I can assure you they did not voluntarily die.
Also, a martyr is one who voluntarily suffers death. This was from a foreign paper, Hong Kong IIRC. How about that Trump - using dead war veterans to toot his own horn. What a class act!
You still don't get it. So: go pound sand, soy-boy.
Trump is the Troll King. Yeah - how about that Trump, what a Patriotic American, huh? Using dead war veterans to toot his own horn. What a class act! Oh well, I'm sure that if If Obama had done this you'd just shrug and say "no big deal". Trump is the King of bone spur deferments. Oh, and the King of Classlessness.
I dunno. 0bama was kind of a cad at his second Memorial Day celebration. He skipped out on Arlington (sent Biden), went out to Illinois to some veteran's cemetery in the middle of nowhere, got caught in a big storm and got stuck or got lost or something and so he was just on some rural highway in the middle of nowhere on Memorial Day. So he quickly tucked his tail between his legs and skedaddled back to Washington so he could give his make-up speech late at night to nobody after everyone was already pissed off at him for not laying wreaths. It was all so shabby, I'm sure I don't recall all the shameful details. Do you recall that? I sure do. That was 0bama's second Memorial Day, just like this is Trump's second.
Unlike prior Presidents who had no horn to toot.
President Trump is "celebrating" the fallen vets of the USS Liberty.
This is all true, except for the third part. I've always been able to distinguish when Trump was really talking to me and telling me what he thought, and when he was trolling, intentionally to ridicule his adversaries and make fun of them, causing them to have conniptions and behave ridiculously. It just isn't at all hard to tell the difference. Example: Trump absolutely intends to build a Wall, and he's going to exact a political penalty from those who stand in his way. He has heard the arguments against it, he thinks they are bullshit, and he's going to have his Wall. What is more, he knows that he got elected in large part BECAUSE of that Wall, and he knows that all of the people who oppose it have been his enemies since the beginning - and are unrelenting - so he no REASON to compromise on it. He can't win them, but he could lose me. And he's not going to do that because HE and I both believe in that Wall, and all of us who do already KNOW we're smarter than the whining weenies who make all of the stupid arguments they make against it. They don't want a Wall EITHER because they WANT those illegals to give them cheap labor or a future minority, or because they are weak minded cowards who have been cowed by the vocal political objections of those who oppose it. It's a zero sum game, we know that - Trump and me and all of the rest of us who support that Wall. We know who the Republicans are who oppose it, and Trump, and us, and we like it when Trump publicly kicks them in the balls and makes it harder for them to survive in the party, gets them primaried. We're not here to negotiate, we're here to rule - so, John, either get in line or go fucking die, and Lindsey, you faggot, shut up and get in line, or drag your weak chin and stretched ass back to South Carolina. It's simple. It's playing for keeps. It's nasty. And we're tired of playing nice.
Well, Trump is actually trying to fulfill his campaign promises. I'm sure the professional pols in the Beltway are aghast at this crude ruffian who actually intends to do the things he promised the voters he would do. The noive! What a maroon! No one ever mentions it but I am quite sure that Trump believes that the voters gave his political campaign a mandate to accomplish some specific things. Everyone somehow operates as though Trump never campaigned on these issues. But he certainly did. Over and over, rally after rally. His scripts did not vary all that much from venue to venue. People knew what he stood for. Anyway, I think they never mention any notion of Trump's mandate to govern because they don't want to legitimize anything that he does. So there is no Trump mandate to enact policy if the libmedia simply refuse to ever mention the idea of whether Trump had a governing mandate from the people.
More bullshit. Except for the perpetual "outcry", aka b*tchin' and moanin' from Leftists and fake libertarians on Twitter and FB (and now LF). Social Media Formula for Propaganda by MSM-Dem Left (and other stooges.) 1) Find 1-3 hyperbolic Whiners/Dissenters from sub-group critical of Trump/Conservatives It appears you've sold out to whomever/whatever and now The Truth isn't as important as blatantly spreading petty anti-Trump/Leftist propaganda. Of course that's when you're not flooding the sidebar with your usual, "GRANNY ASSAULTED BY ROIDED-UP COP" drivel. It's also interesting that's you've posted from WION, a new-ish propaganda fake "news" outlet from India. reviewed WION — 1 star Another Zee media propoganda news Chanel to support Modi...! Disgusting news channel as it represents Israeli Army in negative aspect. And shows softness towards Palestinians. Shame on this Channel... Such a disgrace to news fake propaganda. corrupted journalism. cimmunalism
You are right in your definition. The Left can't help but twist the truth any which way they can.
Blaming someone else for your oversight? And what is your motivation for quoting FOREIGN rags and propaganda outlets for criticism of the President on Memorial Day of all days? What's the matter -- feel "funny" about quoting HuffPo or WaPo?
Oh well, I'm sure that if If Obama had done this you'd just shrug and say "no big deal". AND...Now you've somehow worked in defense of the treasonous 0bama? BRAVO!! Trump is the King of bone spur deferments. ONLY a True Lefty would refer to this term. (Serious question: Has your account been hijacked? IS this really you?) I didn't see this coming... You HAVE defected to the Dark Side, haven't you? So you, Choo-Choo Willie, and Jameson will presumably resume your ongoing Menage-a-Resistance till 2020?
He nevertheless has the mandate, and all of us who support him know that. He crushed Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Bill Clinton, and Barack Hussein Obama and Jeb Bush and George W Bush and George H W Bush and Barbara Bush and Dick Cheney and Mitt Romney and John McCain and Lindsey Graham and, apparently, the FBI and the Justice Department and parts of the CIA, and CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC, The New York Times, the Washington Post and even the Wall Street Journal. He crushed them - won a huge mandate - because We, the People, gave him a big electoral victory. We did that because we want what he promised, and we want everybody who opposed him to be defeated on all of those things. We have not changed our minds. We have not gone away. And we see how the same crowd is trying to nullify what we did, so we're gonna do it again. Note well, Trumps win was not a REPUBLICAN victory: the REPUBLICAN party is the party of Bush and of Romney, of McCain and McConnell and Ryan. This was a HOSTILE TAKEOVER of the GOP by the People. We took over the party through primaries, and we elected Trump over the vocal objections of the Republicans. The Bushes are dying off. McCain is dying. Such Republican victories as there have been, have been because of Trump, though the Republicans have stymied Trump. After November, the Republican Party will be more Trumpish, and the leaders who keep their posts will do so by submission to Trump. Ryan has already submitted, mostly. Mitch the Turtle seems to get it. The others rage, but Trump owns the country club so they have to suck it up. And I love it.
People need to get a life. We could still have Obummer or Hildabeast! Then those words could not be stated at all! I feel better about President Trump each and everyday. I truly thought Obama had ruined this country for good and all it took was a real businessman who cares about this country and is willing to fight to make it great again!!
Hopefully his tweets cause you to eat a .00 buck sandwich, pussy boy. If Trump isn’t to that point, I’d like to see him RAMP up those tweets. Snowflakes TRIGGERED. Haaaa
I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح
Of course, you claim to be "on top" of law enforcement in America. Yet you refuse to uphold the law of the land while posting/egging posters on ..... otherwise awesome posters towards their posts .... and you choose their death sentence. You are a fuckin' nutcase.
There is nothing wrong with Trump's comments. You are mentally I'll though. Crisis actors is your drug deluded mind playing tricks on you.
In other words - a typical lying cop. You are a fuckin' nutcase. Psycopath would be a better description. If he is this much of a psycho here, I can only imagine what his wife and kids have to deal with. Or his neighbors.
Yeah - he's a real "class act" < /sarcasm >
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#2. To: Deckard (#1)
#3. To: Deckard (#0)
The Memorial Day is a federal holiday in the United States which is observed to remember American martyrs.
#4. To: misterwhite (#3)
It's not "The Memorial Day". It's "Memorial Day"
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#5. To: Deckard (#4)
How about that Trump - using dead war veterans to toot his own horn.
#6. To: Tooconservative (#5)
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#7. To: Deckard, misterwhite, A K A Stone (#6)
Oh well, I'm sure that if If Obama had done this you'd just shrug and say "no big deal".
#8. To: Deckard (#4)
How about that Trump - using dead war veterans to toot his own horn.
#9. To: Deckard, MIGA day (#6)
#10. To: Tooconservative (#5)
1.Trump is the Troll King. 2.Everything he says on Twitter is just more trolling. All of it. 3.People who supported Trump don't care at all what he says or what he tweets.
#11. To: Vicomte13 (#10)
Example: Trump absolutely intends to build a Wall, and he's going to exact a political penalty from those who stand in his way. He has heard the arguments against it, he thinks they are bullshit, and he's going to have his Wall.
#12. To: Deckard (#0)
(Edited)
...[T]he president's twitter wishes did not go very well with the war veterans and sparked an outcry on social media.
2) Frame/lie as though a consensus
3) Wait for reinforcements from Leftist-Haters to swarm
4) Embellish with extreme hyperbole and faux outrage
5) Watch social media high-tech lynching spread and infect
6) Pronounce Mission Accomplished in self-congratulating masturbatory orgy 7) WASH. RINSE. REPEAT. Btw, Deckard -- Switched ideological sides, eh? Chetan Dahale reviewed WION — 1 star
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#13. To: misterwhite, Deckard (#3)
A martyr is one who voluntarily suffers death. Our servicemen and women may have voluntarily served, but I can assure you they did not voluntarily die.
#14. To: Deckard (#4)
This was from a foreign paper, Hong Kong IIRC.
#15. To: Deckard, Jameson, Willie Green (#6)
What a class act!
#16. To: Tooconservative (#11)
Anyway, I think they never mention any notion of Trump's mandate to govern because they don't want to legitimize anything that he does. So there is no Trump mandate to enact policy if the libmedia simply refuse to ever mention the idea of whether Trump had a governing mandate from the people.
#17. To: Liberator (#15)
I didn't see this coming... You HAVE defected to the Dark Side, haven't you?
#18. To: Deckard, all (#0)
#19. To: Deckard (#6)
#20. To: GrandIsland (#19)
Hopefully his tweets cause you to eat a .00 buck sandwich, pussy boy. If Trump isn’t to that point, I’d like to see him RAMP up those tweets. Snowflakes TRIGGERED. Haaaa
#21. To: Deckard (#1)
#22. To: buckeroo (#20)
Of course, you claim to be "on top" of law enforcement in America. Yet you refuse to uphold the law of the land
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#23. To: A K A Stone (#21)
There is nothing wrong with Trump's comments
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
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