‘Best and bravest’: Trump honors fallen soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery
President Donald Trump made the customary visit to Arlington National Cemetery to honor fallen troops on Memorial Day. Alongside senior members of the Trump administration, the president paid tribute to those who made the ultimate sacrifice for the United States.
Trump, Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and the commanding general of the U.S. Military District of Washington, Maj. Gen. Trever Bredenkamp, participated in the traditional wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknowns on the morning of May 26.
Trump honors Revolutionary War heroes
After the wreath-laying ceremony, Trump spoke at the cemetery about those who died in America’s wars, calling them “great, great warriors” who were “America’s best and bravest.”
He went on to highlight those who died in the Revolutionary War.
“This Memorial Day is especially significant, as we commemorate 250 years since the first American patriots fell on the field of battle,” Trump said. “Two and a half centuries ago, at Lexington Green, Concord Bridge and Bunker Hill, brave Minute Men and Humboldt farm boys became the first to give their lives for a nation that did not yet have a name.”
Trump’s Memorial Day message
Before the ceremony, the president took to social media to call out the Biden administration.
“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 a post on Truth Social.
He went on to say his administration “MADE GREAT PROGRESS OVER THE LAST FOUR MONTHS AND AMERICA WILL SOON BE SAFE AND GREAT AGAIN.”
Ella Rae Greene, Editor In Chief
