Tweetizen Trump – 2018-05-28: “Memorial Day”

Memorial Day is a day set aside in memory of American soldiers who have fallen in combat.

So, Donald, what is the President of the United States up to?

You do start off nicely with a glossy recorded video about Memorial Day, focused mostly on your interaction with the child of a dead soldier last Memorial Day.

#MemorialDay🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/Iohcuhi4dQ

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 28, 2018

Still, it’s a nice sentiment overall, in keeping with the subject of the occasion. It would have been a solid capstone on the festivities to just leave things there.

But you’ve never been one to leave good enough alone, Donald.

Happy Memorial Day! Those who died for our great country would be very happy and proud at how well our country is doing today. Best economy in decades, lowest unemployment numbers for Blacks and Hispanics EVER (& women in 18years), rebuilding our Military and so much more. Nice!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 28, 2018

Happy Memorial Day! Those who died for our great country would be very happy and proud at how well our country is doing today. Best economy in decades, lowest unemployment numbers for Blacks and Hispanics EVER (& women in 18years), rebuilding our Military and so much more. Nice!

Um, this is kind of a day to celebrate the lives and sacrifices of soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice for their nation, not of a guy with a convenient set of bone spurs, whose boastful “personal Viet Nam” was avoiding STDs.

Instead, this tweet suddenly seems all about … you. Your personal accomplishments in office. You frame it as about how all those dead soldiers would be “very happy and proud” about your ostensible accomplishments with the economy, though I’m kind of dubious about your ability to speak for people who have died in the line of duty, Donald.

Well, I’m sure that’s where you left things, right? I mean, it’s Memorial Day, a time for sober reflection and focus on those fallen soldiers.

Nope. You started watching — and regurgitating — Fox News about “Spygate”. On freaking Memorial Day.

“The President deserves some answers.” @FoxNews in discussing “SPYGATE.”

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 28, 2018

“Sally Yates is part of concerns people have raised about bias in the Justice Dept. I find her actions to be really quite unbelievable.” Jonathan Turley

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 28, 2018

“We now find out that the Obama Administration put the opposing campaigns presidential candidate, or his campaign, under investigation. That raises legitimate questions. I just find this really odd…this goes to the heart of our electoral system.” Jonathan Turley on @FoxNews

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 28, 2018

“The President deserves some answers.” @FoxNews in discussing “SPYGATE.”

“Sally Yates is part of concerns people have raised about bias in the Justice Dept. I find her actions to be really quite unbelievable.” Jonathan Turley

“We now find out that the Obama Administration put the opposing campaigns presidential candidate, or his campaign, under investigation. That raises legitimate questions. I just find this really odd…this goes to the heart of our electoral system.” Jonathan Turley on @FoxNews

I just don’t even, Donald. Your monomania, your towering tone-deaf narcissism, your lack of internal filters or shame — it all has to be about you and your Bigly Monster from the Id. If Jesus Christ came back to Earth, I have no doubt you would tweet that “Jesus has returned. I’m sure he is very happy and proud of how well our country is doing today.”

One would hope that your pivoting from even a tangential discussion about Memorial Day and what it means, to instead re-bleating out the talking heads on Fox News about the made-up scandal you’re trying to set up against the very real scandal under investigation — one would hope that even your most dyed-in-the-wool followers would get an inkling of what a self-centered zany you are, Donald.

Somehow, I suspect too many will just turn over their brats on the BBQ and raise a beer in their toasts to you, instead of to the people this day was meant commemorate.

To those who have fallen, and to the families and friends of those still suffering from their sacrifice, my apologies for this yo-yo taking the spotlight from that sacrifice for his own ends.

LATE-BREAKING UPDATE!

Even as I was writing this, we got another Memorial Day video from you, Donald!

Thank you for joining us on this solemn day of remembrance. We are gathered here on the sacred soil of @ArlingtonNatl Cemetery to honor the lives and deeds of America's greatest heroes, the men and women who laid down their lives for our freedom. #MemorialDay pic.twitter.com/YSYAHf7bNu

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 28, 2018

Thank you for joining us on this solemn day of remembrance. We are gathered here on the sacred soil of @ArlingtonNatl Cemetery to honor the lives and deeds of America’s greatest heroes, the men and women who laid down their lives for our freedom. #MemorialDay

Nice message, Donald. Glad you could drag yourself away from retweeting Trump-supporting Fox News conspiracy theorizing long enough to attend the ceremony.

But wait! There’s more!

The heroes who rest in these hallowed fields, in cemeteries, battlefields, and burial grounds near and far are drawn the full tapestry of American life. They came from every generation from towering cities and wind swept prairies, from privilege and from poverty… pic.twitter.com/aOw3QwN2SV

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 28, 2018

The heroes who rest in these hallowed fields, in cemeteries, battlefields, and burial grounds near and far are drawn the full tapestry of American life. They came from every generation from towering cities and wind swept prairies, from privilege and from poverty…

Oh, jeez … are we going to get a whole series of video tweets, camera zeroed in on you, all about you speechifying at Arlington?

Our fallen heroes have not only written our history they have shaped our destiny. They saved the lives of the men and women with whom they served. They cared for their families more than anything in the world, they loved their families. They inspired their communities… pic.twitter.com/Q9cOcQeEDc

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 28, 2018

Our fallen heroes have not only written our history they have shaped our destiny. They saved the lives of the men and women with whom they served. They cared for their families more than anything in the world, they loved their families. They inspired their communities…

The words are good ones, Donald. I haven’t listened to the whole speech to discover if you go off-script midway through to talk about your huge electoral victory or MS-13 or how great the economy is or how Crooked Hillary tried to steal the election with an embedded FBI spy … but, frankly, I wouldn’t be surprised.

Book-ending the day with tasteful video remarks doesn’t make up for the tweets in-between. For shame.