Fighting Over Memorial Day
“We have to make this country worthy of that sacrifice,” said Vice President JD Vance, rising above the political rancor that marked the early part of Monday.
What is it with Democrats? They hate President Donald Trump so much that they can’t even mark Memorial Day appropriately.
“Today, we honor the American heroes who made the ultimate sacrifice in Trump’s war with Iran,” the official Democrat Party account posted on X, along with a picture of the 13 American service members who have been killed this year. Whatever adolescent runs the account deleted the post after well-deserved criticism. They replaced it with a far more appropriate post to “remember and honor those who have made the ultimate sacrifice to protect our country and defend our freedoms.”
Even other Democrats came down hard on the original post. “It is incredibly distasteful to use our heroic dead for a political attack on Memorial Day,” said Senator Tammy Duckworth, an Iraq War veteran and Purple Heart double-amputee. “I’m a Democrat and I condemn this post by the DNC.”
Colorado Democrat Representative Jason Crow, a former Army Ranger, agreed: “If we want the moral high ground, we have to be better. I fought for our country and served with those who made the ultimate sacrifice. It’s wrong to politicize this day. I won’t hesitate to call out my own team when we fall short.”
Unfortunately, I also have to ask, what is it with Donald Trump? He hates Democrats so much that he can’t even mark Memorial Day appropriately.
His first Truth Social post early Monday morning was a screed against “Dumocrats, RINOS, and Fools” who oppose him, while spiking the football over Bill Cassidy and Thomas Massie after their primary losses last week. A few minutes later, he followed up with another post that read:
Happy Memorial Day to all, including the Dumocrats, who disrespect our Military and all of the tremendous success that it has had over the last year. God Bless those that have made the ultimate sacrifice. I love you all! President DONALD J. TRUMP
Sigh. “Happy” is not an appropriate word for Memorial Day because it, well, disrespects our military. Trump did the same thing last year, and our Mark Alexander took him to task.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Trump often behaves like a Democrat.
Back to the Democrats, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey remembered the dead yesterday, too, but with a twist. “Today,” [he posted in the first of a long thread, “we remember George Floyd, who was murdered by a former Minneapolis police officer six years ago.”
Floyd’s death did indeed result in the conviction of Officer Derek Chauvin, but it wasn’t murder. Chauvin was just the scapegoat to appease the Democrats’ violent Black Lives Matter mob.
I know Floyd died on May 25, but it wasn’t until hours later that Frey remembered, “Oh yeah, it’s Memorial Day.”
There is hope, though. Back to President Trump, later in the day, he took part in the traditional Memorial Day observances at Arlington National Cemetery, along with Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, and General Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. “We lost 13 wonderful souls, wonderful, special people,” Trump said of the Americans killed in action against Iran, but he noted that Tehran “will never have a nuclear weapon.”
Vance, a Marine Veteran, struck a particularly poignant note in a video message: “Every time we lose somebody, every time somebody goes overseas and sacrifices their life, every time that a person gives the ultimate sacrifice to the United States of America, we often read about it as a line on the newspaper or online, but there’s a father, there’s mother, and there’s grandma and aunts and uncles and a whole crew of people who love them the same way that we all love every single member of our family,” he said. “You consider the balance that all of us owe because on the other side is we have to meet their sacrifice by carrying something forward that they can’t carry forward. We have to make this country worthy of that sacrifice.”
Well said, Mr. Vice President. Thank you for the heartfelt reminder of what Memorial Day is really all about — the sacrifice of America’s finest Patriots.
On this Memorial Day, we honor the brave men and women who gave the ultimate sacrifice to our country. We are forever grateful. pic.twitter.com/RgeA0O98ud
— JD Vance (@JDVance) May 25, 2026
I’ll say the same for our own Andrew Culper, who spent Saturday morning placing flags at Chattanooga National Cemetery, and paid tribute in a video worth watching.
