Former President Donald Trump, a convicted felon, honored those who risked their lives on the beaches of Normandy eighty years ago Thursday with a memorial posted on his Truth Social platform.
"The men of D-Day will live forever in history as among the bravest, noblest, and greatest Americans ever to walk the earth," Trump declared on Truth Social. "They shed their blood, and thousands gave their lives, in defense of American Freedom. They are in our hearts today and for all time."
Trump's homage to the WWII soldiers who invaded Normandy as part of the largest amphibious invasion in military history drew an almost immediate comparison to the sea voyage currently being taken by the inflatable "Trump prison chicken" that anti-Trump activists have put on display during his visit to San Francisco this week for a fundraiser.
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"President Biden & Jill are visiting Normandy on this anniversary of D-Day," wrote X user BlueDream. "Meanwhile Convicted felon Trump is in San Francisco viewing a blowup chicken as it circles Alcatraz. Trump couldn’t go to Normandy because felons can’t travel out of the country."
Trump last week was convicted of falsifying business records to conceal hush money paid during of the 2016 presidential campaign, when he feared adult film Star Stormy Daniels would torpedo him with stories of their extramarital affair. He faces sentencing on July 11.
This detail was not the only tidbit from Trump's past that Americans remembered on D-Day.
New School professor and historian Claire Potter reminded X users that Trump's father Fred was arrested after a Ku Klux Klan rally in Queens in 1927, the subject of unsubstantiated rumors that he was a member of the pro-Nazi group called the German-American Bund, and that he was sued over his refusal to let people of color live in his Queen developments.
"As you celebrate D-Day today, one of the most astonishing sacrifices ever made for freedom, remember this: Donald Trump’s father," Potter wrote. "That’s how he raised his son. I’ll see you on the beach."
The Democratic PAC American Bridge 21st Century shared with followers a clip of Trump discussing on Fox News Russia's military strength in relation to Adolph Hitler.
"On this D-Day anniversary, don’t forget Donald Trump gave Russia all the credit for defeating Hitler," they wrote.
X user TrumpTaxes reminded their followers of comments made in 2020 by Trump, who received five draft deferments over the course of the Vietnam War, regarding American soldiers who died in battle.
"Our guy [Biden] loves America so much that he gives a choked-up fist pump during a D-Day Anniversary flyover," they wrote. "Their guy - a convicted felon - hates America so much that he calls our own veterans and fallen heroes ‘suckers and losers.’"
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