“Happy Memorial Day to All, Even the Scum”: Trump Turns Tribute for Fallen Soldiers Into Personal Grievance Dump

ARLINGTON — Memorial Day briefly resembled a campaign stop Monday as President Donald Trump transformed a solemn tribute for fallen soldiers into an airing of personal grudges, complete with complaints about Biden, judges, and “horrible, horrible scum.”

Trump began by laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, calling the gesture “beautiful, maybe the most beautiful wreath ever laid.” Moments later, he reminded attendees that no president in history had been “attacked more unfairly—not Lincoln, not even Washington, who probably couldn’t get elected today because he had bad teeth.”

The president’s Truth Social post earlier that morning set the tone, wishing a “Happy Memorial Day to all, even the scum,” before accusing “corrupt judges” of protecting “rapists, murderers, and liberals.”

By the ceremony’s end, Trump had name-dropped the upcoming World Cup, suggested God made him president “for a reason,” and implied dead veterans would have “loved Trump rallies if they were still alive.”

Historians described the speech as “a solemn occasion… if solemn occasions include one man yelling about everything.”