While Memorial Day is commonly a time for Americans to thank about the sacrifices made by fallen service members, Donald Trump took a bizarre approach — applying part of the solemn holiday to express his personal complaints.
A sharp conflict
President Donald Trump is facing negative comments for the way he select to observe Memorial Day — by launching into a fiery, all-caps tirade on social media.
In his post, he commented about the Biden administration, labeling them “scum,” blamed former President Joe Biden directly, and criticized at judges who have ruled against his policies.
Trump’s Memorial Day message to the nation reverberated the tone of his Easter greeting — beginning not with unity or reflection, but with a sharp conflict on the injustices he claims he’s combating to correct.
On Monday, Trump posted this on Truth Social:
”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 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 on our country so they can rob, murder and rape again.”
Dialogue at Arlington
President Donald Trump attended a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, joined by Vice President JD Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Memorial Day morning. The trio each took a moment to solve the crowd during one of the country’s most solemn national observances.
Reflecting on the nation’s military history, Trump highlighted, “Their valour 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.”
”A disturbed lunatic”
From there, the president rotated to familiar campaign themes, showing outrage over immigration and the border crisis: “Who would let that happen? People pouring through our borders unchecked; people who are doing things that are indescribable and not for today to discuss.”
Trump also reawakened his relationship with Harvard University, issued a bold speech at Arlington National Cemetery where he announced that he now has “everything” in his second term, and amplified a post referring to President Biden as a “decrepit corpse.”
As usual, many users had negative opinions about the president’s choice of words and timing, and they didn’t check on social media. Here’s a grasp at some of the appreciation it sparked:
