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submitted 2 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

Well, luckily for the former president*'s campaign, it wasn't raining on Monday, when he grotesquely used Arlington National Cemetery as a campaign prop because, as we know, he gets a little nervous around soldiers' graves in the rain, and he says things that require him to lie his ass off later. Most recently, of course, he devalued the Congressional Medal of Honor in favor of a bauble he draped on Rush Limbaugh and the wife of one of the sleaziest of his sleazy donors.

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[-] ptz@dubvee.org 87 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Who The Hell Let Trump Into Arlington National Cemetery?

"When you're a star, they let you do it"

Edit: I was 100% making a joke, but it seems to actually be that: https://www.npr.org/2024/08/27/nx-s1-5091154/trump-arlington-cemetery

When the cemetery official tried to prevent Trump campaign staff from entering Section 60, campaign staff verbally abused and pushed the official aside, according to the source.

[-] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 55 points 2 months ago

I think the question still stands. Who specifically let him in, because this was a failure of some sort of chain of command at the cemetery

[-] Kalkaline@leminal.space 5 points 2 months ago

It's a public cemetery, so I don't take issue with him being there and acting respectfully. The problem comes when he uses it as a publicity stunt and gives the thumbs up when he's placing the wreath.

[-] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

it is not a public cemetery it is military property

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago

That allows the public to enter.

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