That Arlington photo Op has backfired spectacularly

[malaise]

The CONvicted felon was trying to cover up his own mess and he also misses looking presidential .
A complete and total eff up.

[jaxexpat]

1. Total screw up?

It's the brand...... again.

[malaise]

3. Yep - A born loser😀

[Zambero]

52. Busted!

https://www.google.com/search?q=busted+ray+charles+youtube&sca_esv=ccb9ef2c67206885&sca_upv=1&rlz=1C1AJZK_en&tbm=vid&ei=5nzQZuzEBaOU0PEP5aKV-QI&start=10&sa=N&ved=2ahUKEwjsz7eurJqIAxUjCjQIHWVRJS8Q8tMDegQIDhAE&biw=1280&bih=613&dpr=1.5#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:4083fe22,vid:pFdXBgPhzy0,st:0

[azureblue]

60. Worse

Is his team intimidated and attacked the caretaker who was trying to stop Trump's photo op. Photos are not allowed, the caretaker told them that, that it's federal law, but his team pushed the caretaker out of the way. Literally pushed her out of the way. Now the caretaker is too scared to press charges because she got doxxed, and she is getting death threats.

[FakeNoose]

67. I believe her commanding officer should take the heat off the caretaker

It's the Army's job to protect their soldiers when they are following orders. No one should be allowed to single out this caretaker by name - whether it's a man or woman, no difference.

So Chump's campaign staff have committed 3 unforced errors. They took the photos illegally, they assaulted an Army service person who was doing her job, and now they have doxxed her which allows the crazy MAGA cult to threaten her.

Someone has to answer for this....

[maxsolomon]

88. Cheung also slandered her as "mentally ill".

I don't think the Army wants any part of this fight, though.

[samsingh]

82. republicans don't believe laws apply to them

they have no decorum or respect for America.

[displacedvermoter]

86. There is a contingent of Marines at Arlington

who are on standby in the event the guard at the tomb of the unknown soldier needs relief. Seems like there should have been ample personnel at our National Military Cemetery to stop this abomination had there been the will by senior authorities.

[Zoomie1986]

98. It's not a law

It's a regulation. Laws have penalties. Taking the photos there doesn't have any penalties.

It's time to make it a law, and give it plenty of teeth.

[bdamomma]

2. Almost

like when he was holding the bible upside down, he's such trash, or worse.

malaise

[malaise]

5. A complete fake

Mememememe.

[brewens]

4. At this point I expect to hear his diaper leaked on the graves too. n/t

[malaise]

6. I am still hoping

😀still watching a non-white female whip his ass will give us way more satisfaction.

Add

[Kid Berwyn]

7. The grin and thumbs up there made his dementia plain.

The photographs and “Incident Report” mark him forever: Loser.

[malaise]

11. Good Read -Trump Dishonors Fallen Soldiers Again

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/08/trump-dishonors-fallen-soldiers-again/679644/

On Monday, Donald Trump visited the sacred ground of Arlington National Cemetery, where many of America’s war dead are buried, and posed for photos. In the strangest of these pictures, the former president is smiling and giving a thumbs-up by the grave of a Marine. It’s an image of a man who has no idea how to behave around fallen heroes.

[Kid Berwyn]

23. Thank you! Excellent read. Here's one on K$H...

Kash Patel Will Do Anything for Trump

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/10/kash-patel-trump-national-security-council/679566/

The Atlantic is an oasis of ideas.

[FakeNoose]

89. Same story - archived no paywall

Not sure if anyone posted the archived (no paywall) link: https://archive.ph/bY1bB

[Maeve]

12. Seriously! The other photos are resaonable, but that one is a slap to vets

[Kid Berwyn]

24. Heartless Passes in Review

[irisblue]

59. They did not blur/crop the name of the Marine on the left side of the photo

What that must have done to the family of that man.
💔

[Kid Berwyn]

71. I understand one family impacted did not give permission.

They were hurt to discover their loved one’s name in a political photo op.

The grinning thumbs-up shows Trump is insane. Thanks, Putin.

[birdographer]

63. Who are all the other people who are

so giddy with joy being around fallen soldiers?

[Kid Berwyn]

68. Family that "invited" him.

They must not have known they’d be getting used as props, like their fallen kin.

[birdographer]

90. I wonder what relatives not celebrating will think of them now?

They might not get invited to Thanksgiving dinner this year.

[keithbvadu2]

103. And now DonOld is backstabbing them, blaming them for 'tricking' him into doing it.

[Kid Berwyn]

106. They are now finding out what was in it for them.

Being used by a traitor masquerading as a candidate.

[Kid Berwyn]

107. That is weird.

My guess is the arm belongs to a relative hidden from the camera. The person wears a gray blue dress-like garment. Cannot make out more. I do feel sorry for them all.

[livetohike]

18. That stupid thumbs up gesture. He does it almost

all of the time when getting his pic taken with others. He’s a wannabe Fonz, but I don’t think they make black leather jackets in his size.

[Kid Berwyn]

25. Is Behaviorist Clay for the KGB Molding

[dalton99a]

73. +1. Putin's representative visits Russian asset in Washington

[Marthe48]

26. They'd need a bigger cow

N/t

[IjustDontlikeRepugs]

32. It would take 2 cows.

[Swede]

27. Indeed.

[malaise]

37. THIS

Perfect😀

[Kid Berwyn]

41. A single Porta Potty serving all Oktoberfest would have a shorter line.

TSF fills hearts with hate, some times even mine for a time.

[democratsruletheday]

94. He done stepped in it this time....

this one isn't going away. Stupid fuck.

[gab13by13]

8. That's not the point,

Is the Arlington official going to come forward and spill the beans of what happened? Hell no she won't, she is afraid of death threats.

If Barack Obama pulled a stunt like this the MSM would be calling for his resignation.

No I do not believe this backfired, there is a campaign ad out there using Arlington cemetery as a backdrop and no one is demanding it be taken down. I watched the ad and TSF does look presidential in the campaign ad.

I understand the significance of Arlington cemetery, my sister had her husband buried in Arlington and I drove her behind the horse drawn casket to the grave site.

TSF made a mockery of Arlington cemetery and his ads will continue right up to the election.

[malaise]

13. It's all important

and you are correct.
He broke the law

[FalloutShelter]

31. Every single day the MSM

Gives this POS cover.
It’s constant. They allow him to pretend that he is still President. No on ever comments on the FACT that he is still conducting foreign policy through emissaries and meetings at his roach motel in Florida.
He is operating a government in exile.
It never ends. It’s like What About Bob in hell and we’re living it.
The MEDIA is responsible for this. If they wanted him gone he’d be gone and we all know it. We have seen them burn down candidates in three news cycle or less for MUCH less.

Let the MEDIA know about it. You know what to do.

[malaise]

38. Excellent post

Rec

[FalloutShelter]

50. Thanks Mal!

It really just flames me up every day.
LOL… jeebus rice.

[mucifer]

53. It really seems at this point with all the evidence they have and the

refusal to report on his insanity, that the msm is being paid off.

How else can this be explained?

[redwitch]

56. Her life would no longer be her own.

Likely worried about safety issue. These people are thugs.

[leftyladyfrommo]

9. I'm surprised his team let that photo out. nt

[malaise]

14. The law and rules are for the rest of us

He is above all that

[cutroot]

46. They like the controversy. It makes him look all mavericky. Weird

[leftyladyfrommo]

48. It gers him in the news again. nt

[underpants]

78. Probably his idea so they said yes Sir!

Plus they are all trying to one up each other to get his approval or avoid his wrath.

[Norbert]

10. This all could have been avoided if...

He would have took some immodium for his diahhria of the mouth. He tried to do damage control an this is like throwing gasoline on the human dumpster fire.

I still say that if Kamala did this, she would have resigned this time next week and the 'liberal' MSM would have ridden her ass all the way

[malaise]

15. Yep

When is enough enough?

[rubbersole]

58. 8 years ago.

78 years ago for New Yorkers.

[Simeon Salus]

16. In any other campaign this would have been considered a staffing problem, and they'd kick somebody loose

And they certainly tried (and are trying) to blame anyone but themselves.

But they're on tiktok with it, so they've made it officially political now. Officially disrespecting military dead. For clicks, not even for votes.

We'll see how long Vump/Trance can survive without the military pander.

[malaise]

87. You assume that the staff weren't following his orders

You’re brave😀

[Irish_Dem]

17. They just keep making things worse and worse.

Where the hell are Trump's advisors?

[magicarpet]

35. trDUMP's campaign advisors engineered this,...

.... Arlington Cemetary fiasco. They knew the trDUMP comment about veterans being "suckers & losers was very damaging to the campaign.

So they hatched a scheme to put trDUMP at the forefront of the third year anniversary of the 13 US soldiers who perished at the Afghan airport bombing.

They had trDUMP place two wreaths at the plaza of the Unknown Soldier with video and camera shots because it was a stunt to make him look Presidential. Exploiting this ceremony at Arlington National Cemetary and turning it into peformative theater for a Presidential campaign advert.

Then to compound the situation trDUMP and his entourage of campaign advisors forced their way past cemetary officials, assaulting them and pushing them aside, when they tried to stop Team trDUMP from entering Section 60 where no still cameras or video cameras were allowed.

Then trDUMP had the audacity to stand among the grave stones with his signature ear to ear grin while he gleefully flashed his thumbs up sign. All while the still cameras and video cameras were rolling looking for that perfect shot to be used for trDUMP's Presidential campaign television ads.

The goulish but gleeful thumbs up sign and the inappropriate ear to ear smile by trDUMP at the grave stones of the fallen had nothing at all to do with honoring the thirteen US soldiers who died in Afghanistan.

trDUMP's thumbs up exuberance had everything to do with his pride for the fact the he and his Fascist enterage stormed the national cemetary, his political campaign Stormtroopers pushed and shoved their was into restricted areas so photo and video copy could be made for trDUMP's Presidential campaign. Fuck the cemetary, fuck the fallen soldiers or their families, and fuck the cemetary employees who seek to maintain honor and respect for this hallowed ground.

trDUMP could give a shit less about Arlington Cemetary. He only sees it as a convenient prop he can exploit to help achieve his Presidential ambitions to get re-elected... PERIOD.

How crass, how self-centered, and how totally inconsiderate. This man trDUMP is not under any circumstances Presidential Timber.

[malaise]

40. It was also illegal

Lock Him Up

[Irish_Dem]

44. Trump's advisors are in way over their heads.

Everything single thing they do to mitigate damage makes it much worse.

The first rule of holes is to put down the shovel.

[hatrack]

45. He had four years during which he could have "appeared presidential".

He was actually president during that time. He never appeared presidential, not even once. A wreath-laying and a shit-eating grin next to soldiers' graves four years later didn't get it done, either.

[Codifer]

47. not advisors perhaps.

trump engineered this shit show for exactly the same reasons that hamas was instructed to be so absolutely cruel in the October raid on Israel.

To send a message: "I GOT POWER!!"

[SheltieLover]

39. Moscow

I sure pootin is quite pleased with this stunt disrespecting fallen American heroes.

[Irish_Dem]

55. Yes Putin would love to weaken the US military.

[SheltieLover]

75. And I'm sure he is quite pleased with his ASSet for denigrating soldier's graves

Anything to make the USA look bad on the global stage.

[Irish_Dem]

77. Yes Putin wants to humiliate the US military

[SheltieLover]

79. That's a big part of tfg's assignment. Boris & Natasha both!

[Irish_Dem]

83. Yes destroy US institutions, one by one.

[SheltieLover]

85. Absolutely! Right down to destroying the Kennedy Rose Garden & the hellish White House Xmas "decorations"

I hope those acts were not lost on Americans.

[Buns_of_Fire]

19. He might have been able to pull it off, if

he'd kept the stupid grin off his face and his thumb in his ass (where it belongs).

[Emile]

21. and arrived 3 1/2 years earlier.

[onethatcares]

20. is there a way to photoshop

him saluting that N Korean general while he was there?

[BoRaGard]

22. But the G.O.P. continues to lie and pretend it was cool for their draft dodger

to use the graves of America's war dead for a phony political attack on Dems. That's what it was. The "honor ceremony" part of it was just a fake sincerity ploy to try and cover up the "suckers and losers" republicon blasphemy. The core reason was to try and stick it to the Dems about Afghanistan. So the draft-dodging felon blathered about that, and the media submissively spread it. Meanwhile, his former chief of staff at the time says flat out that the whole stink-up, close-out in Afghanistan was the fault of the republicon felon.

MSM don't find none of this context to be newsy or amusey,

[sarge43]

28. Icing on the shit cake

Last edited Sun Sep 22, 2024, 11:21 AM - Edit history (1)

Assault on a woman Army officer. Way to support and respect the troops, scum bags.
Yes, she was in uniform; she was on duty.

[Lovie777]

29. How many classified documents got in the hands of USA's enemies...................

when shithole loses in 2024 will the USA have another coup which may become the 2nd civil war?

Will shithole go to prison?

shithole only cares about himself and has repeatedly told us that the military are suckers.and losers.

[Goonch]

30. 👇👇👇👁️👁️

[malaise]

49. THIS

Lock him up

[crud]

65. hey Maggie

TSF's sexual innuendo was not a campaign tactic, it was despicable, horrendous, deplorable, contemptible, disqualifying, sick and disgusting. Any of those words would work. Fuck your political analysis.

[malaise]

66. I am no fan

of either CNN or MH

[SouthBayDem]

33. Trump's "Dukakis in the tank" moment.

At least Dukakis enlisted.

[PatSeg]

34. I'm sure we should expect a lot more of the same

between now and November. His campaign has no idea what it is doing and the candidate is all over the place. It would take a wizard to make Donald Trump look presidential.

[IronLionZion]

36. I hope he loses a lot of veterans and military families

He's disrespected them so many times over the years in such horrible ways.

[displacedvermoter]

42. Send a reporter to a VFW or Legion Hall

and I am afraid of what you would hear. It would likely be along the lines of "at least he went there, you didn't see Harris there" plus a litany of Fox facts about the Afghanistan withdrawal.

We should never underestimate the propensity of certain groups -- poor people, Social Security recipients, and sadly veterans -- to vote against their own best interests.

[CatWoman]

43. ....

Former president Donald Trump has encountered significant criticism for smiling and giving a thumbs-up while posing for photos at Arlington National Cemetery in front of the graves of our fallen soldiers.

Arlington Cemetery put out a statement: “It is against federal law to engage in political campaigns or election-related activities in military cemeteries, including photographers, content creators, or any other persons attending for such purposes.”

As a veteran I feel obligated to honor and tell her story—Marine Sgt Nicole Gee, whose gravesite Trump is standing behind, is pictured here on the right caring for an infant during the evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. Just days before her tragic death in a suicide IED attack outside the airport, Sgt. Gee exemplified compassion and dedication to her country and service

Prayers and respect to her family—(MAY 1, 1998 – AUGUST 26, 2021) RIP

Link to tweet

[ck4829]

51. K&R

[Tribetime]

54. He's getting hammered on tiktok about it people are pissed

[Bluethroughu]

57. He tried to use his "suckers and losers" to get votes.

To bad for him, there are enough people that find his disingenuous appearance for what it is, about and for HIM!

He is disgustingly gross.

Let us not forget, the people supporting this ugly disrespectful psycho, all the millionaires that would support this pig. What kind of people are they?

[dchill]

84. They just "like his policies."

[Bluethroughu]

91. Except when you ask them, which ones?

They don't have the time to give one.

Big mouth Bullies, that's all they are and all they want to be.

[dchill]

92. Just the one, really.

He hates who they hate.

[Bluethroughu]

93. Perfectly spoken.

[Permanut]

101. Unnamed MAGA in a recent interview..

was asked that question - "Which of Trump's policies do you support?"

"All of them" she said. Slithered right around the question.

[AllaN01Bear]

61. just like when he and his goons raided that church and held the bible upside down.

[Prairie_Seagull]

62. All Americans especially veterans and thier families

have the right, maybe even responsibility to speak for those who are interred there.

IMO

[Aristus]

64. Nothing ever backfires on Trump.

The very fact that the thirty-four-times convicted felon is still running around free as air is proof of that.

[malaise]

70. Then how did his coup fail?

How come he is now a convicted felon?
Sure he should already be in prison but either he croaks or he dies in prison.
He is about to lose again.

[Aristus]

72. It backfired on his slavering, brain-dead mob.

Not him. He got four hours of tawdry glee, watching them commit treason in his name.

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

69. I take it you dont listen to RW radio? In that universe

no backfiring has occurred and its our candidate who is evil and at fault for having put those soldiers in their graves. I say this only because I travel in parts of the state (Wisconsin) where NPR doesnt reach and all there is is RW talk and preachers, with a little bit heavy metal headbanger music thrown in LOL I dont want us to lose sight of how powerful and self-contained propaganda can be if you are living in a world where that's all you hear and/ or that's all the people around you want to hear. Sorry, just cant sit back and relax and pat myself on the head - not just yet!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

74. 'Unfairly attacked': Army defends employee involved in Trump campaign incident at Arlington

I am glad to see the Army defend the person attacked by TFG's campaign

Link to tweet

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/29/donald-trump-arlington-cemetery-army-employee-00176729

The Army is defending an Arlington National Cemetery official involved in an incident with the Trump campaign this week at the national memorial, saying the woman was “abruptly pushed aside” and “unfairly attacked” by the Trump staffers and its surrogates.

The unidentified female staff member has declined to press charges due to concern over retaliation, and the Army, which runs national cemeteries, said in a statement Thursday morning that it considers the matter closed.

Former President Donald Trump took part in a wreath-laying and gravesite visit on Monday to commemorate the three-year anniversary of the U.S. pullout from Afghanistan, and his campaign has since been accused of violating a federal law that prohibits photography and video at the site for political purposes.

After the incident was first reported, the Trump camp denied that the employee was shoved and called her “despicable” and had mental health problems.

[Blue Owl]

76. If someone asked him today....

I bet tRump couldn’t name the fallen soldier who he was there to desecrate…..

[LetMyPeopleVote]

81. The US Army has issued a statement on the Arlington Incident

Link to tweet

[Skittles]

96. I don't understand why that gal would need to press charges

the Army should pursue these thugs

[Skittles]

95. right after the medal thing too

these fascist freaks just do not learn

[malaise]

99. The CONvicted felon is sub human

He is bereft of decency, empathy and many other characteristics we take for granted.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

97. TFG's plan was to secretly film a fake established memorial event & then claim Harris refused to attend.

TFG's plan was to claim that VP Harris refused to attend an established memorial event

Link to tweet

[usonian]

102. Kicking this.

He must pay for his disrespect for the law, for veterans, and all civility.

[spanone]

104. He's despicable beyond reason.

Death wants no part of him.

[keithbvadu2]

105. Editorial Cartoons of Trump at Arlington

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=cartoon%20trump%20tomb%20of%20unknown%20soldier%20loser&form=IQFRML&first=1
.

[malaise]

108. I would have used unfamous

but he stuck to the script for the location. Really good.