The Witness Chronicles, June 7, 2024

Trump can’t talk about D-Day except to say we suck

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“American Greatness” vs “A Failed Nation” and “A Very Sick Country”

Two candidates on D-Day and one makes me sick

How much contrast do we need to understand that this election represents an insane choice, or no choice at all if you have shred of humanity. This is the last major anniversary of D-Day where we will honor living veterans of a moment in history, when evil was put on the defense and eventually destroyed.

That contrast is stark between Donald Trump’s shameful speech calling our country “sick” and “failed” and Joe Biden honoring those vets, who, as young men, risked their lives to help end an existential threat to our entire civilization.

Calling our country a failed one reflects Trump’s manufactured fear mongering on a day when we celebrate a moment of surpassing greatness. Europe and the world needed us and we stepped up, even as the precursors of today’s Republican Party back then preached hiding from the world and isolating ourselves.

Isolationism is a core part of Trump’s unholy pitch, a pitch that makes no sense. According to him, we should kick all non-white foreigners out, close our borders to those desperate for asylum from intolerance, torture, and murder and keep our “hellhole” to ourselves.

It is no surprise that Donald Trump, a draft dodger who repeatedly insults and denigrated veterans, avoided speaking of D-Day like the plague. He is a coward of the first order, a man who would have embraced Hitler like another petty Mussolini kowtowing to a tyrant. We know this because of his campaign’s constant veiled references to the Third Reich, implying that dictatorship is the best path for our future.

Trump dictatorship, that is.

To be honest, this contrast between the statements of an actual respectful patriot who had dedicated his life to our country and a pitiful man entirely enslaved by his own ego and willing to do anything for attention is telling.

But what’s really telling is the fact that anyone thinks this guy is a viable candidate for President. He is the product of willful ignorance and his followers are no different than those who thrill to the humiliation of a freak show.

Trump, officially an ex-President and convicted felon, likely has no idea what D-Day was even about. The man does not read, will not share his transcripts from a college that accepted him after his daddy gave them money, and who has avoided anything like service to others his entire life.

I knew there would be a story like this today. It was inevitable that we would see one man showing respect and honoring Americans who served and the other telling us we are a scumbag failed country. And Trump stepped up, outdoing his own disgusting rhetoric simply to get a few cheers from self-proclaimed patriots.

It’s those ‘patriots’ who really sicken me. They’ve warped the meaning of the word beyond redemption. Our only reminder of what a true patriot is are those men, 100 years old and older, who our legitimately elected President honored yesterday.

Trump,would not acknowledge them because they have nothing he can take or use. He would not even appear next to them, knowing he would be revealed as the shallow coward he is, a man with no faith in the country that has treated him like a king.

But king is not enough for this man, he must be a god. Some god.

Note: Today Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) called Biden’s remarks in Normandy on D-Day political and disgusting. Biden never mentioned Trump or any political parties. I guess remembering those who gave their lives for the country is ‘disgusting’.

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