Trump Flashes ‘Unusual’ Thumbs Up and Smile at Graves of Fallen Marines

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-flashes-a-thumbs-up-and-smile-in-photo-at-graves-of-fallen-marines

47 Comments

  1. What a piece of shit. It’s bad enough that he has to do damage control for insulting Medal of Honor winners, but he can’t even do that without making an ass of himself.

  2. Hi from down under. In my former military career I occasionally attended service memorials, funerals, wreath layings, etc and never saw anyone take a photo with beaming smiles and a thumbs up. Was I missing something or are these people just absolutely off the fucking planet weird?

  3. JarJarBanksy420 on

    Unusual….for normal people. Unfortunately it’s just another day in the life of this weirdo.

  4. probablyindecisive on

    Is this the family of the fallen? If so, they can pose however they want. Who am I to assume how their loved one would feel?

    The guy who is the former and wants to again be the President of the United States is a different story.

  5. Draft dodger visits Arlington, still doesn’t understand service or sacrifice. That’s the headline.

  6. bigbrainbradman on

    You should go look at how happy he was to have a photo op with the orphan whose parents died in the El Paso Walmart shooting a few years ago. He was beaming!

  7. lieutenant_wine on

    I like how the baby on the left is the only one that realizes how gross and off-putting this is.

  8. needcoffeepronto on

    That’s because in his mind it was a photo op. Nothing more, nothing less. Opportunist.

  9. He’s just trying to stay in the news.

    Or, maybe papa Putin offered him a bounty for giving a smile and thumbs up at Arlington

  10. VermicelliFit7653 on

    I don’t fault the other people doing the thumbs up. People reflexively smile and gesture when a group photo is taken, especially if they are with family.

    However, the person applying for the job of commander-in-chief of the military should know better.

  11. guyincognito69420 on

    The families think he would have prevented deaths which is asinine. He kept the war going despite promising to end it. He is as much to blame as Biden, and he is also to blame for the 65 people that died during his administration which refused to end the war.

    I also can’t believe people would be cool with a draft dodger using graves at Arlington as a prop. I don’t care if you agree with their politics or not. You can make their deaths a political issue but don’t turn their graves into a photo shoot. It’s sick.

  12. He’s using dead soldiers to score cheap political points. He doesn’t actually care about war heroes or there’s a whole lot of things he wouldn’t have said before.

    It’s disgusting, but par the course for Trump.

  13. Glum_Appearance_3708 on

    So he’s using a federal cemetery as a campaign stop? I’m pretty sure using tax payer funded, federal locations are illegal to use as a campaign stop.

  14. Remember when that woman was flipping the bird and yelling at the ‘be quiet and respectful’ sign at Arlington as a joke and her life was ruined over it? Can we get the same thing to happen to Trump?

  15. Trump is Trump, he will never change and nothing he does is surprising.

    But why THE FUCK are any of these god forsaken people happy to be taking a picture next to him?

    How, in any scenario, can they justify smiling for a photo with this whiny low life bastard?

  16. Another classic Trump gesture .. you can’t make this up, he outdoes anything you’d dream up!

  17. zombieking079 on

    Sometimes, you think this man couldn’t possibly do dumber things to prove that he is an absolute moron…and he proves you wrong by doing even more dumber things.

    Thumbs up…really?

  18. Dead servicemen as props. Yet I feel like a lot of the military members active and retired still support this sick fuck. Why?

  19. It’s such a default pose for him when he’s taking a photo with his fans that it never even occurs to him to not do it due to it being wildly inappropriate.

  20. The sooner this man fades into obscurity, the better…i am suffering like everyone else of Trump fatigue

  21. Weird weasel Spencer cox smiling his snake smile. What a coward Spencer is. Sold himself to the anti christ. Makes me wonder what skeletons drumps camp dug up on him. Traitors.

  22. Aromatic_Moment5550 on

    There’s never a real moment of cognition with him. It’s just going through the motions.

  23. Impressive-Egg-925 on

    They’re taking a picture with the guy that created terms for the exit and set the conditions for their family member to die not understanding he really doesn’t give a fuck about the guy. Just what the dead soldier can do for him. He’s calculated and desperate and in being so, doesn’t care who is hurt in the wake of his narcissism.

  24. WeirdcoolWilson on

    Huh. Reminds me of that time jeans Melania went to El Paso after a mass shooting to have a photo op. They were holding an infant who had lost both parents in the shooting, he was giving thumbs up and they were grinning like ghouls – after a mass shooting

  25. As someone with paralyzing social anxiety who stays up all night hating myself for mispronouncing a word in a conversation or something minor/awkward like that… trump’s moronic tendencies make me feel, for a moment, just a little more normal.

  26. bootstrapping_lad on

    He did the same thing with that baby whose parents were killed in a mass shooting.

    Everything is about him. He has no empathy. He sees other people as expendable props.

  27. I was a Marine and not a super-motivated oorah sort, but this guy…this guy can fuck right off…you don’t use dead Marines as political props. We never leave a man behind, and it’s not so some bone-spurred draft-dodging fuckwit can come along and thumbs up over the goddam grave. Fuck this failure of a human being. Please, America, if you’ve ever actually cared about supporting the troops, vote this motherfucker into oblivion.