President Donald Trump does not participate honorable transfer One of the four American soldiers who died in Lithuania, instead Saudi -supported golf tournament Florida is in the country club at Doral.
Personnel SGT. Jose Duenez JR., Personnel SGT. Edvin F. Franco, PFC. Dante D. Taitano and Staff Sgt. Troy S. Knutson-Collins died during an educational exercise in the Baltic region of Europe when they were all twenty, driving into the swamp. reported.
Their bodies started their honorable transfers to the United States on Thursday and is expected to arrive Friday At the Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. Instead of Trump, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will transfer, FOX News.
Democratic Sen from Arizona. Ruben Gallego said, “Currently, the US President will not meet the ruins of our service members when they land at Dover… Because it will be in a golf tournament,” Ruben said. written In a post on X. [Department of Veterans Affairs]? “
Unlike Trump, thousands of Lithuanians honored the soldiers, Covering the streets of Vilnius The funerals carrying his body are going to the airport on Thursday.
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda, Associated Press, “More than a task for us, this is a feeling. We have experienced experiments in our history and therefore we understand what the loss is, what death is, what is the honorable mission,” he said.
For Trump, ignoring the honorable transfer is respectful of fallen service members, during the 2024 presidential campaign He used the graves of dead soldiers To make a photo op.
Last August, Trump’s campaign used a ceremony at the Arlington National Cemetery to create a campaign content with its employees. verbal abuse And even a physical debate With a cemetery official who says that the campaign is contrary to the rules of filming in a part of the cemetery where the last losses were buried.
All this is part of Trump’s history of honoring the falling soldiers.
He called the deceased soldiers “Suckers” and “Loser”. And in 2018, he canceled a visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery in France, because thousands of American troops who died in World War I were buried, that the rain would disrupt the hair and that it would be important to honor the death of the American war. AtlanticHe referred to four people familiar with his statements.
Trump refused to say that. However, Trump’s former Chief of General Staff retired General John Kelly confirmed that Trump made these humiliating statements in 2023.
Kelly a expression then to CNN:
What can I add that hasn’t been said before? … A person who defends their countries in uniforms or who has been hit or seriously injured in the war, or who thinks of torture because they are all ‘sucking’, because ‘there is nothing for them’. A person who doesn’t want to be seen in the presence of the military amputee because ‘doesn’t look good for me’. During the 2016 campaign, he says to a gold -star family on TV – for all Gold Star families – a person who has a clear despise and our most valuable heroes in the defense of the United States are the ‘Loser’ and will not visit their graves in France. The protection of unborn life is an inappropriate person on women, minorities, evangelical Christians, Jews, working men and women. A person who has no idea what America represents and what America is about. Cavalierly argues that a self -sacrificing warrior who has been serving his country in peace time and war in war for 40 years should die for betrayal with the expectation that someone will take action. A person who admired the autocrats and the killer dictators. A person who is nothing but disrespectful to our democratic institutions, our constitution and the rule of law. There is nothing else to say. God helps us.
Ultimately, Trump is equal for the course to choose a golf to honor down soldiers – Pun is not intended. The selfish commander went to Florida just a day later to Florida Recognize the stock market because of him stupid tariff policy.
