Trump honors Gold Star families at Arlington Cemetery

[spanone]

JUST NOT THIS FAMILY.

WASHINGTON President Trump paid tribute to fallen service members at a somber Memorial Day ceremony Monday, honoring the nation’s war dead as “angels sent to us by God.”

“I believe that God has a special place in heaven for those who lay down their lives so others can live free of fear,” he said at Arlington National Cemetery. “We can never replace them. We can never repay them. But we can remember them.”

Following a 149-year-old tradition that dates back to President Ulysses Grant, Trump laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier — a silent tribute punctuated only by the buzzing of cicadas and the clatter of camera shutters.

He delivered a 20-minute address extolling not only those who died in battle, but also the Gold Star families left behind.

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[nikibatts]

1. We all know he hardly meant what he said and didn't fully understand any of it.

[global1]

3. I Can't Believe They Let This Treasonous Draft Dodging Bastard Into Arlington Cemetery....

He probably thinks Gold Star families are those that have well behaved kids in kindergarten and the teacher gave them a 'Gold Star'.

If I had a kid these days - there is no way I would let my kid enlist into the military - to sacrifice their life - for him!!!!

[Tanuki]

2. Donald "I've made a lot of sacrifices" Trump

https://www.google.com/amp/abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/donald-trump-father-fallen-soldier-ive-made-lot/story%3fid=41015051
"In his first response to a searing charge at the Democratic National Convention from Khizr Khan, the father of a Muslim soldier killed in Iraq, that he "sacrificed nothing" for his country, Donald Trump claimed that he sacrificed by employing "thousands and thousands of people." Also, he suggested that Khan's wife, Ghazala Khan, didn't speak at the convention because she was forbidden to as a Muslim and questioned whether Khan's words were his own.

"Who wrote that? Did Hillary's scriptwriters write it?" Trump said in an interview with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos. "I think I've made a lot of sacrifices. I work very, very hard."
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Trump also said, "If you look at his wife, she was standing there. She had nothing to say. She probably — maybe she wasn't allowed to have anything to say. You tell me."
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Pressed by Stephanopoulos to identify the sacrifices he made for his country, Trump said, "I think I've made a lot of sacrifices. I work very, very hard. I've created thousands and thousands of jobs, tens of thousands of jobs, built great structures. I've had tremendous success. I think I've done a lot."
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Paul Rieckoff, the founder and CEO of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, a nonpartisan group with close to 200,000 members, said, "For anyone to compare their 'sacrifice' to a Gold Star family member is insulting, foolish and ignorant. Especially someone who has never served himself and has no children serving. Our country has been at war for a decade and a half, and the truth is most Americans have sacrificed nothing. Most of them are smart and grounded enough to admit it."