Trump Suggests Gold Star Families to Blame for Arlington Cemetery Controversy

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-arlington-cemetery-blame-gold-star-families-1235092314/

43 Comments

  1. Unlucky_Clover on

    He’s such a weak leader. He’ll never admit he did anything wrong and it’s always someone else’s fault. I don’t know why people think a perpetual victim who will lie about everything is the right choice.

  2. I do not understand how everything is some else’s fault. Will this orange brown ass ever take responsibility for anything? Please just lock him up already.

    Yes I desecrated those graves at the cemetery, but it was some else’s fault.

  3. Icy-Risk-7129 on

    “The former president said it may have been Gold Star families, not his campaign, who distributed images and videos of him at Arlington National Cemetery” – This guy will always blame someone else for his fuckups. Even a family that lost a loved one. Disgusting

  4. Yousoggyyojimbo on

    How does he keep maybe making this worse?

    This was like one scandal and now it’s 5.

  5. sh4desthevibe on

    This absolute piece of human trash is going to throw gold star families under the bus to cover for his own campaign’s violation of this hallowed ground?

    When he dies, they better make his grave closed to the public. Otherwise, there’s going to be a neverending line of people waiting to piss on it.

  6. Mother_Knows_Best-22 on

    Well, that’s a winning strategy…. LOL

    Please, your choice on Nov 5 is the former prosecutor vs the convicted felon / traitor who is always for sale to the highest bidder. Vote like your life and the lives of all Americans depend on it, because they do!

  7. ……what?

    I mean, It’s Donald Trump, and the guy says batshit crazy, idiotic, brainless, poorly-thought-out things all the time and seems to have a penchant for making any given situation worse. But…..

    what?!

  8. Sure_Garbage_2119 on

    “i didn´t knew it wasn´t allowed”

    that´s what the employee there told you, but you shoved her and accused her of being crazy.

  9. Everybody goes under the bus before him. Hope they’re satisfied with the thumbs-up photo.

  10. MotorMeringue1095 on

    Trump will say anything to cover his fat arse, won’t he. What a weird wee weakling.

  11. addled_and_old on

    Honestly – how has someone not smacked this guy in the mouth. Ted Cruz probably would have won the race for POTUS had he dropped Trump in 2015 for insulting his wife. Instead he will forever be known as a craven coward.

  12. His campaign literally released it on TikTok.

    It is still there.

    So is the story these families hacked his campaign’s social media accounts to upload it?

    My god is he an idiot.

  13. Necessary_Chip9934 on

    Shove someone protecting our national cemetery, blame families of lost service members….and use it all for a thumbs-up photo.

    He doesn’t care.

  14. >That didn’t happen.

    >And if it did, it wasn’t that bad.

    >And if it was, that’s not a big deal.

    >And if it is, that’s not my fault.

    >And if it was, I didn’t mean it.

    >And if I did, you deserved it.

    The Narcissists Prayer

  15. Even if they didn’t have any direct involvement, a true leader would take responsibility for their subordinate’s actions and make sure any controversy is rectified and prevent it from repeating.

    Trump is not a leader.

    First he says he had nothing to do with the incident at Arlington Cemetery, suggesting that the staffers were responsible for what happened (but wasted no time using the footage taken as campaign material). Now he’s blaming civilians?

    Come on, Republicans–THIS is the guy who you want to be our* Commander-In-Chief?

  16. It’s 2016 and Donald Trump is attacking Gold Star Families.

    It’s 2024 and Donald Trump is attacking Gold Star Families.

    I can’t comprehend how someone stays stuck as a person for 8 straight years, let alone the last 8 years specifically.

  17. “It just so happened there was a camera crew there and it just so happed that they turned it into a Tictoc. I don’t know any of the people involved and am just finding out about it now.”

    MAGA: (BELIEVES it)

  18. His dad is waiting for him in hell. For eternity he will hear how he wasn’t good enough. You can’t get a deferment from eternal damnation.

  19. 2020willyb2020 on

    Perhaps it was the grinch who steals elections that posted to my account- it wasn’t me. It was The most perfect picture – ever- never seen before in history

  20. CaptBertorelli1 on

    As a computer programmer I think, Donalds brain only consist of 4 lines of code:

    10 DONALD F%CKS UP
    20 PEOPLE CRITICIZE DONALD
    30 DONALD BLAMES EVERYBODY BUT HIMSELF
    40 GOTO 10

    It a classic Fruit Loop

  21. MrsLydKnuckles on

    “I guess the Gold Star families shared the photos and videos”

    Motherfucker, you had them edited with your voiceover, posted to your own social media account.

  22. juniper_berry_crunch on

    Trump’s visit was initially denied. It was arranged with help from House Speaker Mike Johnson:

    Here is the key comment, from a talk this morning (Friday) between C-SPAN host John McArdle and VoteVets Senior Adviser Mike Lavigne.

    LaVigne is speaking, at [7:51 in this video:](https://www.c-span.org/video/?537975-4/mike-lavigne-veterans-issues-role-campaign-2024)

    *This was not some geek off the street. This was a very carefully-coordinated visit to the cemetery. It required multiple levels of coordination between the military district of Washington, Arlington National Cemetery, Joint Base Meyer Henderson Hall. This, this was not a, a, last-minute decision to go do this, and that could be sort of laughed off as a misunderstanding of the rules. In fact, my understanding is* ***it was initially denied,*** *and, uh, it was* ***escalated through the speaker of the House’s office to, to make it a reality.*** *Representative* [Brian Mast ](https://mast.house.gov/)*was, was on-site as the sponsor for this event. So, there is absolutely no way that, that key people in the campaign, two sets of congressmans’ offices were not fully aware of what the rules were. They, they just flagrantly disregarded them.*

  23. crazyoldwizard72 on

    I’m going to get my picture taken giving a thumbs up and a big smile at his grave

  24. thebikevagabond on

    I am so sick of this raggedy piece of shit. Any of my fellow veterans who actually still support this fucking shit head need wall to wall counseling.