Trump Brings Usual Lies And Political Attacks To Arlington National Cemetery | EUROtoday

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump took his standard lies and political assaults to Arlington National Cemetery on Tuesday, making his Veterans Day remarks sound extra like a rally speech.

“We were going in the wrong direction for a period of time, but we’ve never been hotter than we are right now,” he claimed, however rising inflation and unemployment, whereas praising House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune for his or her “victory” over Democrats within the authorities shutdown.

“Congratulations to you and to John and to everybody on a very big victory. We’re opening up our country. Should have never been closed. Should have never been closed,” he mentioned.

He lied about tariffs — “We’ve taken in trillions of dollars in tariffs” ― and power prices — “Energy prices are way down.”

In reality, Trump’s commerce battle towards the remainder of the world has generated about $130 billion in new tariffs to this point, and each dime has been collected from Americans. None has been “taken in” from different international locations. Gasoline costs are about the identical as they have been a yr in the past, whereas electrical energy prices are dramatically greater.

While parts of Trump’s speech featured conventional Veterans Day fare — thanking service members for his or her work and sacrifice — massive sections of his 21 minutes behind the lectern have been his typical rambling, meandering remarks that, at factors, have been troublesome to grasp.

“When I see other countries celebrating Victory Day, I watched it. I watched U.K., I watched Russia; they were selling ― celebrating — Victory Day, World War II, and I said, ‘We got to have a Victory Day.’ Nobody even talked about it in our country. But from now on, we’re going to be celebrating Victory Day for World War I, for World War II, and frankly, for everything else,” he mentioned, referring to a “proclamation” he signed declaring that Veterans Day may also be referred to as Victory Day.

In reality, the United States already marks two “victory” days, one every for the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany in May 1945 and of imperial Japan three months later.

He then bragged about giving the Department of Defense his most popular nickname, the Department of War. “Under the Trump administration, we’re restoring the pride and the winning spirit of the United States military. That’s why we have officially renamed the Department of Defense back to the original name, Department of War. And remember, we won World War I, we won World War II. We won everything in between. We won everything that came before. And then we brilliantly decided to change the name of this great, this great thing that we all created together, and we became politically correct. We don’t like being politically correct, so we’re not going to be politically correct anymore.”

Trump’s declare of “officially” renaming the Pentagon is fake. Congress named it the Department of Defense after World War II, and solely Congress can rename it.

Trump in 2018 infamously refused to go to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery in France in the course of the 100-year commemoration of the top of World War I as a result of it was raining and he didn’t need to destroy his hair. The website is the resting place for 1,800 U.S. Marines who died in 1918’s important Battle of Belleau Wood. Trump’s then-chief of workers John Kelly, a former Marine common, went with then-Joint Chiefs Chairman Joseph Dunford.

(White House officers claimed on the time that Trump couldn’t go as a result of his Marine Corps helicopter couldn’t safely fly within the rain – an assertion belied, but once more, on Sunday, when Trump flew Marine One by means of rain again to the White House from a soccer recreation.)

Kelly additionally confirmed that Trump had known as those that serve within the army “suckers” and “losers” for his or her sacrifice. Trump himself prevented army service by claiming “bone spurs” in his heels in the course of the Vietnam War.