Today, the United States Army released a surprising statement rebuking Donald Trump and his presidential campaign over the politicization of the hallowed ground that is Arlington National Cemetery, and the physical and verbal assault of a cemetery employee.
According to reporting from CNN, an Army spokesperson confirmed political activities are prohibited on cemetery grounds and that Trump campaign staffers pushed aside an employee who attempted to enforce the cemetery rules.
In the statement, an Army spokesperson criticized the statement released by Trump’s campaign as an unfair attack on the cemetery employee.
The Army spokesperson also confirmed the incident was reported to the police department at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall, and that the cemetery employee in question decided not to press charges for the alleged assault.
The incident at Arlington National Cemetery is just the latest in a long history of Trump disrespecting active service members, veterans, and their families:
August 2024: Donald Trump disrespects veterans and service members with his comments about how the Presidential Medal of Freedom is superior to the military Medal of Honor because the former involves no sacrifice.
February 2024: Trump questioned why Nikki Haley’s husband was not with her on the campaign trail. Maj. Michael Haley was abroad on a mission with the National Guard.
January 2024: Trump mocked late Senator John McCain’s inability to raise his arms due to injuries he sustained as a prisoner of war.
September 2023: It is revealed that Trump accused the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark Milley, of treason and said he should be executed.
August 2021: Donald Trump told a convention of American Veterans, a volunteer-led veterans service organization, that he considered awarding himself the Medal of Honor.
November 2020: People with knowledge of Trump’s private conversations said he long scorned those who served in Vietnam as being too dumb to have avoided serving like he did.
October 2020: Trump said he thought Gold Star families who visited the White House for an event gave him COVID.
September 2020: Trump canceled a visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery because it was “filled with losers.”
May 2019: WSJ reported that Trump’s 2017 tax plan raised taxes on as many as 10,000 children of deceased service members.
October 2017: Florida Congresswoman Frederica Wilson confirmed then-President Trump told the widow of deceased Army Sergeant, La David Johnson, that her husband “knew what he was getting into.”
July 2016: Trump attacked the Khans, a Gold Star family after they spoke at the DNC.
July 2015: Trump expressed contempt for the war record of the late Senator John McCain, who spent more than five years as a prisoner of the North Vietnamese. Trump said McCain was “not a war hero.”
Published: Aug 29, 2024 | Last Modified: Sep 2, 2024