Social media users criticized President Trump for a Memorial Day tweetclaiming that fallen service members “would be very happy and proud at how well our country is doing today.”
Trump sent the tweet on Monday to mark the holiday honoring fallen heroes, and used the opportunity to tout statistics about the economy under his administration.
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
witter users, including several journalists, quickly criticized the president, saying Trump was making the holiday about himself.
Here is what some Twitter users had to say:
On Memorial Day, the president takes some time to remember that dead soldiers are grateful to him. https://t.co/DZaGWlkm7q
— Josh Barro (@jbarro) May 28, 2018
It’s ironic that when those on the Left tell us all what a dead person would do there’s no outcry.
And generic groups, like ALL women or ALL blacks or ALL gays, according to the Left must think in accordance with the agenda of the Left OR they are not really women, gays, blacks.
https://www.refinery29.uk/conservative-women-feminists
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/10/11/gay-conservatives-react-national-coming-day/
I suppose Bradley Manning’s cry for help last night with two sad suicide-style tweets is proof that not all veterans appreciate how well this country is doing.
There are plenty of liberals who also hate what the Trump admin has been doing in the USA.
Even Bill Kristol, a once-neo-con, now a Never-Trumper, is joining in on the attack.
So, perhaps not ALL of our dead soldiers wanted a better economy, low unemployment, stronger military.
Donald Trump is known (you ALL should know by now) as someone who employs hyperbola quite often.
What % of the fallen do you think would be happy our nation prospers?
What % of them do you think would be sad about it?
Like the idiots who vandalize the War Memorials and such if i had my way they would pay through the nose for their crimes no mere slap on the wrists just like that Nebraska Collage Professor with the walnut sized brain who convicted of vandalism spraying a bloodlike substantce in the home of Christ Cox of the NRA and i see that David Hoggs like Die in at Publik store has backfired on the CNN attention monger
@Nanny G:
The Marxist left has never stood on morals, or principles. Your comment reminds me of a comment by Ronald M. MacMillan, a former Air Force One steward who placed these words in the mouth of Democratic racist Lyndon Johnson, “I’ll have those n****s voting Democratic for 200 years.”
It was broadly known that Johnson, like many of his Democratic brethren, was racist, and many such pronouncements parted his lips in presence of endless people through the fifties and sixties.
Sadly, his prognostication turned out to be true and he’s still worshipped by the left.
How much left wing outrage was there over the MSNBC idiot who declared that veterans who supported Trump were dishonorable? Bill Clinton writing, from his draft-evasion haven of England, that he “loathed the military” is something the left needs to be repeatedly and relentlessly reminded of because they forget about it so quickly and easily. You won’t hear anyone from the right declaring that soldiers doing their duty are “war criminals” just as no one on the left criticizes Obama for drone striking terrorists, women and children.
Yet they think they can lecture ANYONE on the proper way to honor veterans and the fallen. I think they should look back at just WHO was spitting on WHOM.
Look what Trump has done to a once-proud party
So, where are all the disrespectful Trump selfies on important dates and events?
Oh, right, that was an Obama thing.
@Petercat: Obama trading 5 ranking terrorists for a deserter, then honoring him in the Rose Garden and pardoning Whatever-the-hell-it-is Manning tells you about all you need to know about how he feels about the military and their service and sacrifices.
@Greg: If you haven’t figured it out yet, it was not republicans who elected Trump. It was people who love this country and wanted to wrestle it from people like you who approve of the direction Obama, Comey, Clapper, and those others prominently in the cross hairs of the voters. They are those Obama describes as living in “fly over country” and those described as “deplorables” by Clinton and those blacks and Hispanics who think rather than follow the liberal party propaganda. By the way, what did you do today?
@Greg: Yes. He’s an Independent that understood you have to infiltrate either the Dem or Rep party to get elected.
Glad to see he’s hurt both parties, mostly the Dems by uncovering the extent of their deep corruption. They tried to buy the election and have Russia win it for Hillary, and STILL failed!
It’s sad…
Bill Clinton the Draft Dodger,Traitor,Rapists Child Killer(Abortion)who supported Abortion while setting aside inanimate rocks and trees in the Grand Staircase,Esclante, National Monument and leaned over backwards to appease the Eco-Wackos over Timber Plan 9 and had enviromentalists wacko Al Gore and his veep who wrote his Eco-Malarkey best seller EARTH IN THE BALANCE(Al Gores Thumb is on the scale)and i can still remember the Bumper Stcker ONLY IN AMERICA DOSE VIETNAM VETERAN SLEEPS IN A CARDBOARD BOX WHILE A DRAFT DODGER SLEEP IN THE WHITEHOUSE