Trump attacks ‘scum’ opponents, judges on day honouring America’s war dead
US president honours fallen soldiers on Memorial Day after posting an all-caps tirade at his enemies on social media
US President Donald Trump marked the annual day for honouring the US war dead Monday by tearing into his “scum” opponents and judges who do not rule in his favour.
Trump performed the traditional presidential duties on Memorial Day of visiting Arlington National Cemetery – the resting place for some 400,000 fallen soldiers and others.
And after laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Trump delivered a speech that likewise stuck mostly to the typical presidential script of praising US war heroes.
However, the 78-year-old Republican began his day with a lengthy, all-caps tirade on his Truth Social platform in which he declared: “HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY TO ALL, INCLUDING THE SCUM THAT SPENT THE LAST FOUR YEARS TRYING TO DESTROY OUR COUNTRY”.
The post claimed that “warped radical left minds” had allowed in millions of illegal immigrants, “many of them being criminals and the mentally insane”.