John McCain’s son decries Trump appearance at Arlington as a ‘violation’ that turned cemetery into campaign backdrop
John McCain’s son decries Trump appearance at Arlington as a ‘violation’ that turned cemetery into campaign backdrop
When former President Donald Trump held a campaign event at Arlington National Cemetery last week, First Lieutenant Jimmy McCain says he viewed it as a “violation.”
it's still amazing to me that any military personnel still support trump after all the times he shat on the military
Racism and guns are more important to them than respect for the military, even if they are that military
People in the military aren’t the sharpest group.
Ehh, it depends. Polling in 2020 put soldiers at 41℅ Dems/ 37% Republicans, so it's not fully one way or the other.
From my personal experience, soliders mainly were non voting. After service? Tended to matter where they ended up more than anything else.
They're the sharpest bulbs in the shed
The true travesty isn't that he did it, it's that he was allowed to get away with it like he always is.
I'm not a "Support the Troops" person. I even have family in the military, I just really don't care for that jingoism. So I'm not that offended by Trump's antics disrespecting the military.
What really frustrates me is the fact orange man thought it was a good idea to THUMBS UP in a graveyard. Jesus Christ, no respect for the dead. And every single person around this idiot is cool with him doing that. Fucking ghouls.
He doesn't respect anyone, so this isn't a surprise. That some people wanted or still want him in a service position to the country when all he cares about is one person named DJT is beyond me. If the previous term didn't show them that, they won't ever get it.
It's because he was "hurting the right people." They have accepted that their lives will be miserable, and will do everything they can to make sure no person of color, or minority of any type, has it better than them. That's the most important part to them.
It's not even about whether or not the government can do good for all its people, that's not even a possibility to them. So instead, they see it as a means of making other people more miserable than them, and pulling the ladder up behind them.
Meh. I don't care about the thumbs up.
What sickens me is that they planned this. They strategised how to get in there with the cameras, and how to respond to the inevitable outcry that would follow.
Their statements in the immediate aftermath are vulgar. The comment about an employee who was suffering a mental health episode trying to stop them. I imagine that employee was upset at seeing the sacrilegious trampling of the dignity of the fallen soldiers in her care.
It's also not lost on me that if anyone thought for a second that any political campaign would be so low as to try this, there would be security in place to prevent it. These scum are willing to stoop that low.
I understand what you mean with the military overall, but I personally find the THUMBS UP to be more egregious when those buried there died in service to our country.
Yeah, we know. We didn't need the apparently unnamed son of John McCain to tell us that.
No but there's a few more tidbits in the article like Jimmy McCain voting for Harris and the "ever-so-relevant" Meghan McCain:
Despite her harsh criticisms of Trump, Meghan McCain indicated last week that she would still not endorse Harris. “I’m a lifelong, generational conservative,” she tweeted.
I get your sentiment though.
“I’m a lifelong, generational conservative,” she tweeted.
men, and women, and fellows in between, this is what we call a red flag.
The post title is actually a link to an article.
Just saw John McCain's grave at Annapolis on the same day we went to Arlington. Got a private tour of the highest ranked graves. Most incredible thing? He's only buried there bc his best friend, a fellow naval officer, vouched for him and pulled strings to have him buried there.
It was so dope. I'm the only civilian to have accurately pointed at a headstone and said "isn't that the dude who blew up a train bridge inland, defying the jurisdiction of the navy??"
Yes, Lefty's love America and are actual Patriots.
Sauce:
The true travesty isn't that he did it, it's that he was allowed to get away with it, like he always is.
judging by the outcry. i'm not sure about that, although i wonder why military twitter thinks about this one, they were mad about tim walz and his whole spiel that one time.
Well, he's not wrong.
Yeah, no shit. Though thanks for reminding me John McCain is dead
Decries, slams, rips, fires... over sensationalized headlines don't come from real journalists. Let the facts speak.