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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.

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[–] wirebeads@lemmy.ca 123 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago

Nothing more American than LARPing as a patriot while selfishly screwing your fellow countrymen.

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

He needs to be put in the ground.

[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not all of him. I would personally like to see his head sealed in lucite and mounted on a pike on the west lawn.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago
[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

And his toupee thrown into a volcano in new zealand.

[–] Justas@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

I know a peat bog he could take a ride at.

[–] chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 46 points 1 year ago (2 children)

10 years ago if you made this guy a villain in a movie it would be so overdone you'd lose suspension of disbelief.

[–] CH3DD4R_G0BL1N@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You know hour I know you’re right? Because they did. Multiple old film villains were based on him. Biff, Clamp, Gecko, etc.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some More News did like a 3 hour video about this a few years back. Worth watching.

Yeah I was trying to remember more examples they gave but it’s been a while

[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 42 points 1 year ago (3 children)

"Those suckers are less important than my grifting." - Donald "Fuck the Troops" Trump

[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also what he said during a photo-op at the tomb of the unknown soldier

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

he barged into the cemetry and got a photo op, and the family just couldnt stop cheering him on, thats the most unbelievable part. while ignoring another soldier that was interred there,

[–] MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not even grifting. He's fucking golfing.

Edit: immediately after typing that I remembered his golfing is a fucking grift.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

As expected from someone who openly calls fallen members of the military "losers".

Remember this, American forces, when he sends you to war with your long-term allies.

[–] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Who in Their RIGHT MIND would Honor such LOSERS and SUCKERS? And I DONT feel BAD Saying that Because ~~Losers and Suckers~~ Veterans voted OVERWHELMINGLY for Trump!

[–] rotkehle@feddit.org 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't know why people down vote you... I guess they don't understand the reference ^^

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

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…

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

His make-up might run. Think of the bronzer!

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago

Of course Cheeto won't attend the funeral of a bunch of losers. He likes soldiers, not dead losers, rite?

[–] Aganim@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

I expect nothing else from ol' Cheeto Face. He thought John McCain was a loser for getting shot down over Vietnam and being held as a POW, so I can only imagine what he would think of a bunch of guys drowning in a bog.

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] wanderingmagus@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

It's because they don't want to hear it.

[–] MoonRaven@feddit.nl 10 points 1 year ago

Imagine how angry gop would be if the democrats would do this...

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

And they will happily vote for him again.

[–] ragingdachshund@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Bitch’s bone spurs must act up anytime someone talks about actual soldiers and not Meal Team Six

[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

...

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.

from Wikipedia

[–] NeuronautML@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

So military question, in America do civilians salute ? I see Trump saluting in a suit. In my country that's a no-no. Only military personnel in uniform and appropriate head apparel may salute, like all the soldiers next to Trump. Or is the president considered a military person since he's commander in chief ?

I mean civilians can salute if they want. There's no penalty. It just doesn't carry any meaning from a civilian and looks kind of goofy and out of place. Military personnel can't salute out of uniform, though. You may get disciplined over that.

[–] DoubleSpace@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's normal for the US president to salute our troops. It was not normal when he saluted North Korea's troops.

It's not considered normal though for the president to have a resident billionaire dick-sucker that goes around doing Nazi salutes and supporting far right wing agendas in other nations though is it?

[–] NeuronautML@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks! It's interesting to find out how differently things are in military procedure in other parts of the world.

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

It has become a tradition for presidents to do it, but it's not part of actual customs and curtesies. You're really not supposed to salute out of uniform. You are supposed to salute an officer if you know they're an officer and you are in uniform, but if they're in civilian clothes, they're not supposed to salute back. Instead, just give an at ease.

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Meanwhile, there are still MAGoos burning over Obama's 'latte salute.'

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Think he’s going to want to win the hearts of the military pretty soon.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hopefully other people will look at this and realize they shouldn't die for this shithole country.