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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Velveteen Ocelot
(115,932 posts)and here, on a grotesquely inappropriate occasion. We don't recognize Memorial Day in order to celebrate the claimed accomplishments of the narcissistic pig squatting in the White House.
Disgusting.
Docreed2003
(16,889 posts)I don't have the emotional energy today to go on Twitter and look it up...that shit is fucking disgusting!
SHRED
(28,136 posts)pintobean
(18,101 posts)the right was outraged about the tweet below.
I wish happiness to everyone. I don't need to be somber all weekend to remember those who gave everything. I'm conscious of that every day of my life.
Link to tweet
oberliner
(58,724 posts)And then look at what those same people say about Trump when he makes the same remark.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,932 posts)although that's probably not the best word to use to recognize a day set aside to commemorate the deaths of soldiers. What's really wrong - and what Obama did not do - is Trump's use of the occasion to pat himself on the back:
oberliner
(58,724 posts)What I was highlighting, though, is the hypocrisy of the right-wingers who attacked the tweet from Democrats saying Happy Memorial Day but are fine when Trump says the same thing.
RainCaster
(10,940 posts)Somehow he can twist anything into being about him.
lpbk2713
(42,770 posts)Turn a veteran's cemetery into another Trump Golf Resort.
That will really honor their memory.
Blue_Adept
(6,402 posts)This is a bad hill to try and die on.
I've wished many people a happy memorial day weekend because I know what their plans are.
pwb
(11,296 posts)To honor our dead veterans. Some are on vacation.
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)DesertRat
(27,995 posts)Link to tweet