By Laurie Baron
SAN DIEGO — Donald Trump visited the graves of soldiers killed in the terrorist attack in Kabul shortly before the United States withdrew its forces from Afghanistan. Although the officials at Arlington Cemetery had informed him that photographs and political campaigning are prohibited in that section of Arlington, he couldn’t resist staging a photo opportunity with the two families who had invited him to the cemetery showing him smiling and putting his thumbs up which in Trump etiquette constitutes a gesture of solemnity.
Video of the event subsequently was posted on TikTok with Trump criticizing the terrorist casualties on Biden and bragging that no US soldiers died there in the 18 months before Biden became the Commander and Chief, conveniently forgetting that US forces incurred 45 combat deaths there under Trump. The Army reprimanded him for his blatant disregard of Arlington protocol and his staff pushing an Arlington employee who warned Trump’s entourage to stop violating it.
The incident has stirred up a controversy, but I suspect it was a false flag operation to mask more sinister things. According to my sources, Trump wants to privatize Arlington if he becomes president. He plans to dig up the graves of soldiers who had been killed while he never would send anyone in harm’s way, had been captured by the enemy because they’re not really heroes, or had come out as gay when “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” was rescinded. Their gravestones will be shattered, pieces of them will be placed in glass containers with a MAGA inscription and sold for $1,000 along with the photograph of him enjoying his memorial foray to Arlington.
The empty space left by exhuming their bodies will be converted into a golf course because such an undertaking will leave a lot of holes. A new section of Arlington will be open for Americans who received deferments from the Army because they had bone spurs. Finally, a studio will be erected on the Arlington grounds for Trump’s new reality television show “Cemetery Apprentice.” The program will feature Trump hiring sycophantic gravediggers and soldiers and firing traitors like the woman who protested his lack of decorum and the officers who criticized his visit. The revamping of Arlington will be detailed in an addendum to Project 2025.
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Laurie Baron is professor emeritus at San Diego State University.
I am Not impressed By This item called Satire. Being Hostile to Trump at Arlington Leaves something to be desired When he was invited to be There by the families.
Except the families did NOT have the authority to invite him under Arlington cemetery rules. This is now very well documented including in statement by the Army. This is as good as his other satires and I will be running it on my weblog in a few minutes.