Trump's West Point speech insulted all veterans — on Memorial Day weekend

Sometimes, all this is just too damn much to take.

Sometimes, just the thought of the grotesque Donald Trump being in the vicinity of the United States of America much less our White House makes me shake with rage ...

So when I read on Saturday morning that the revolting, America-attacking wretch had given the commencement address to our cadets at West Point, my heart began beating with a runaway rage.

I saw red.

I pulled myself away from my desk and tried to compose myself.

Then I returned and started typing, because when I saw this vile coward used this grotesque visit to honor himself, I decided a few things needed saying ...

This hideous man … his childish, red, made-in-China hat pulled tight over the dead ferret he tapes to his head each day, spent this morning lying to these cadets, and the world, about all he is doing for them, while benefits to veterans like myself and millions of others are being jeopardized, so he can repay billionaires and fascists like Vladimir Putin who helped lift his two-ton, lying ass into office.

Trump needs to stay far away from our military, and closer to all those fawning suckers he cheats on and berates on his golf courses.

Instead, he actually said this out loud to impressionable young men and women today, who enlisted to defend this country not burn it down:

“And you will become officers of the greatest and most powerful army the world has ever known. And I know, because I rebuilt that army, and I rebuilt the military. And we rebuilt it like nobody has ever rebuilt it before in my first term.”

My God …

This orange lowlife has done nothing but DISGRACE that army. He doesn’t know a single, damn thing about army values, navy values, or ANY values, because the only thing he truly values — the only thing he has EVER valued — is himself.

As a sailor, who read Stars and Stripes newspaper in the 1970s, and then became the managing editor of that great, editorially independent newspaper many years later, I had the honor of being a part of our military, and understand it, and them, better than that ghastly, country club bully ever will.

Morally busted lowlifes like Trump are the enemy of that culture, not the example.

He has NEVER had what it takes to serve his country, because above all, he is a liar and a coward, who uses America as his personal ATM.

The fact is, he is an America-attacking draft-dodger, who has called our fallen "suckers and losers" and did nothing for three hours while law enforcement officers in uniform were stomped to near death during the worst attack on our Capitol since 1812.

He could have called in the National Guard in minutes to stop that January 6th attack, but didn't for one reason, and one reason only: He was hoping it would prevail.

He has belittled true heroes like the late John McCain, and disgraced Arlington National Cemetery more times than I can count. He did nothing after the professional propagandist he chose to lead our military shared stop-secret information on his cell phone to God knows who, jeopardizing countless lives in our military that he alleges he cares so much about.

• He is an enemy of the United States of America.
• He is serial-liar and a cheater.
• A racist.
• A phony.
• A punk.
• A convicted felon.
• A woman-abuser.

This dangerous bullshit that he somehow loves our country or our military needs TOSTOP RIGHT NOW.

He provably hates both.

He loves our country like an arsonist loves a burning house.

Duty, honor, country?

Give me a damn break. He doesn't have even the foggiest idea of what these things truly mean.

He can go straight to hell.

I SPIT ON HIM.

(D. Earl Stephens is the author of “Toxic Tales: A Caustic Collection of Donald J. Trump’s Very Important Letters” and finished up a 30-year career in journalism as the Managing Editor of Stars and Stripes. You can find all his work here, and follow him on Bluesky here.)