A US Army sentinel guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier reprimanded Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and a group of his senior advisers Wednesday after some in the group laughed and talked near the solemn memorial following a Veterans Day ceremony.
“All visitors will maintain an atmosphere of silence and respect at all times,” the sentinel called out, stopping his patrol to face the group as they departed.
Jerk didn’t even seem to care. I bet he turns around and tries to get the Sentinel reprimanded.
Not the first time with this crew.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/28/trump-arlington-cemetery-visit-altercation
That incident is so infuriating not just because of the impropriety and their dishonest responses to criticism, but also because the botched pull-out from Afghanistan was entirely trump’s fault for setting it into motion shortly before leaving office.
He got those people killed, and then used them for a photo op a couple months before an election. Even though he’s previously called casualties of war “suckers and losers.”
And yet, people voted him back into office…
And the people that voted him back into the office will be the first to crow “SUPPORT OUR TROOPS” and will somehow continue to exist with zero cognitive dissonance between those juxtaposed concepts.
Not entirely. Biden allowed it to proceed.
But mostly, yeah.
The fact that he’s basically just redoing one of his old controversies the day after they shut down his impeachment really just feels like he’s flexing on all of us