Army soldiers place Memorial Day flags in Arlington National Cemetery
The Old Guard placed about 260,000 flags at the gravestones of service members and their families at Arlington National Cemetery for Memorial Day.
WASHINGTON − On a federal holiday meant to honor soldiers who have died serving their country, President Donald Trump on social media wished a “HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY!”
An hour later, he repeated the statement, this time in a much longer, still all-caps post attacking his political opponents and federal judges.
“HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY TO ALL, INCLUDING THE SCUM THAT SPENT THE LAST FOUR YEARS TRYING TO DESTROY OUR COUNTRY THROUGH WARPED RADICAL LEFT MINDS,” Trump wrote in the May 26 post.
The president in his post appeared to reference Joe Biden as “AN INCOMPETENT PRESIDENT,” and he criticized judges who he said “SUFFER FROM AN IDEOLOGY THAT IS SICK, AND VERY DANGEROUS FOR OUR COUNTRY.”
Trump has stoked an ongoing war with judges across the country since the start of his second administration, from threatening their impeachment to seeking to evade their rulings against his orders. The president’s allies and opponents alike have called the feud between branches a constitutional crisis.
The president’s online activity at the start of Memorial Day also included a series of posts sharing videos marking the somber holiday with tributes to the military.
Later on May 26, Trump is scheduled to give remarks and participate in a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery in northern Virginia.