Summary
Donald Trump will not attend the dignified transfer of four U.S. soldiers killed during a training exercise in Lithuania.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will represent the administration at Dover Air Force Base. Critics noted Trump’s rare attendance at such ceremonies, citing just four appearances during his first term.
The soldiers’ remains were found in a peat bog after a March 25 accident.
Trump is instead scheduled to attend a dinner at Mar-a-Lago. Lithuania’s president honored the fallen at a repatriation ceremony, drawing contrast with Trump’s absence.
They get what they deserve.
No soldier with any sense of awareness to the fact that Donald Trump is an enemy to the US (which admittedly is depressingly few), would want him there anyway.
Nothing more patriotic than a fat orange Russian muppet playing golf at a resort that tax payers now pay for to protect him while he gives the middle finger to the U.S. military. Truly a gift to humanity is what this dumb fucking clown is.
Those dead imperialists can rot in hell
“the most exploited classes can rot in hell for taking an act of desperation in the hopes of surviving their contract period and getting any chance at a living wage and an education”
fuck off with your bullshit. this mentality doesn’t help anyone and isn’t any different from right wing virtue signaling
I have no money so I just have no other option than to join this huge terrorist organisation and go kill or bomb whoever they tell me to.
Maybe there’s some scumbags in Yemen who support Palestine, I’ll just press this button and kill a few dozen and their entire families.
I’m a hero now! So much better than lowering myself and working at Mc Donalds.
Fuck off with your bullshit whitewashing.If i kill my elderly neighbor so i can steal and pawn everything they own my poverty is an explanation not an excuse for my actions. My actions don’t suddenly become acceptable because I benefited from them.
By dead imperialists, are you referring to the soldiers?
He needs to be put in the ground.
I know a peat bog he could take a ride at.
Not all of him. I would personally like to see his head sealed in lucite and mounted on a pike on the west lawn.
And his toupee thrown into a volcano in new zealand.
I like it.
… and in this day in age … nothing more American than in having Americans put up with it all
If any previous American president had done this, it would have been headline news for months … for this administration it’s completely normalized … it doesn’t show bad the government is … it shows how dumbed down the country has become.
“It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent now would have tolerated behavior like that from me, or a whole bunch of my predecessors.” – prez Obama
American citizens are not putting up with it all. There are massive protests in every city in America every weekend.
The problem is the the media is barely covering it at all, so people keep saying that Americans arent doing anything about it.
By next summer, every weekend will see MULTIPLE simultaneous major demonstrations in every major city across America, protesting multiple issues. That’s when HitlerPig will turn the military and law enforcemnt against the protesters in a Tiananmen-style response that will allow him to impose Martial Law and cancel the mid-term elections, and preserve his Congressional majorities.
Unfortunately that’s exactly how I see it too. I’m lucky I’m getting old, I fear massively for the next generation.
Nothing more American than LARPing as a patriot while selfishly screwing your fellow countrymen.
ironic SEO image, at this point is Newsweek anything but a low quality right-wing rag?
Unlike most large American magazines, Newsweek has not used fact-checkers since 1996.
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In November 2022, the Southern Poverty Law Center reported that Newsweek had “taken a marked radical right turn by buoying extremists and promoting authoritarian leaders” since it hired conservative political activist Josh Hammer as editor-at-large. It noted the magazine’s elevation of conspiracy theorists, publication of conspiracy theories about COVID-19, views such as support for a ban on all legal immigration to the United States and denying adults access to trans-affirming medical care, and failure to disclose potential conflicts of interest in the content published on Hammer’s opinion section and podcast.
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I guess the only reason this is newsworthy is because we need the US military to turn against their commander and chief when he tries to hold the office indefinitely.
Kinda fucked the author didn’t say this in the “Why It Matters” section
Imagine how angry gop would be if the democrats would do this…
And they will happily vote for him again.
Nooooooo, you don’t say!
Who in Their RIGHT MIND would Honor such LOSERS and SUCKERS? And I DONT feel BAD Saying that Because
Losers and SuckersVeterans voted OVERWHELMINGLY for Trump!I don’t know why people down vote you… I guess they don’t understand the reference ^^
Bitch’s bone spurs must act up anytime someone talks about actual soldiers and not Meal Team Six
10 years ago if you made this guy a villain in a movie it would be so overdone you’d lose suspension of disbelief.
I keep saying we’ve skipped timelines to the Flemingverse.
Orange Julius Caesar has at least a passing resemblance of several Bond villains; fElon, also for that matter.
You know hour I know you’re right? Because they did. Multiple old film villains were based on him. Biff, Clamp, Gecko, etc.
And yet i don’t hear enough of them even talking about it. They aren’t seeing this. It’s just not making it into their info sphere or whatever cool black mirror name we gonna shoot for next.
We talk about it. A lot. At least my division and command does, both enlisted and officers. There were vets on April 5th that talked about it too, on the bullhorn.
It’s because they don’t want to hear it.
Meanwhile, there are still MAGoos burning over Obama’s ‘latte salute.’
Fox News would’ve blamed Biden for the soldiers deaths and Biden would’ve been attending the transfer and taking all kinds of shitty media coverage over it. Instead, Trump goes golfing and no one cares.
The end of the American Century was when this asshole didn’t go to the memorial for the centenary of the end of WWI. Because it was raining.
The end of the American century was when he bragged about grabbing women by the pussy and it didn’t matter. Or mocking a disabled guy, and that didn’t matter. Or, long before that, talking about how he wants to fuck his daughter and that didn’t matter. Or…
