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Early Monday morning, on Memorial Day 2026, President Donald Trump sent out a series of social media posts via his Truth Social platform \u2014 including one that used the holiday to attack Democrats. And some military veterans are calling out the attack as wildly inappropriate for Memorial Day.<\/p>\n

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Trump posted, “Happy Memorial Day to all, including the Dumocrats, who disrespect our Military and all of the tremendous success that it has had over the last year. God Bless those that have made the ultimate sacrifice. I love you all! President DONALD J. TRUMP.”<\/p>\n

One of the vets is Naveed Shah, who served in the U.S. Army during Operation Iraqi Freedom and is director of group Common Defense.<\/p>\n

Shah didn’t mince words, telling the Daily Beast that Trump has no business attacking his political opponents as unpatriotic in light of offensive things he said about veterans in the past.<\/p>\n

Shah told the Daily Beast, “Trump has demonstrated over and over again that he hates the troops\u2026. From calling the troops who died in WWI ‘suckers and losers,’ to mocking (Sen.) John McCain’s five years as a POW, to attacking the Gold Star Khan family, all the way back to 2016 when he lied about donating to veterans’ groups. He has never missed a chance to dishonor the people he was never brave enough to stand beside.”<\/p>\n

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The Daily Beast’s Leigh Kimmins notes that Trump, now 79, went to great lengths to avoid military service during the Vietnam War \u2014 only to insult McCain’s military record during that conflict. The late Vietnam veteran McCain was tortured and abused by the Viet Cong during his time as a prisoner of war. <\/p>\n

Kimmins explains, “Trump, who received five military deferments during the 1960s, four for academic reasons and one for bone spurs, started the national holiday by airing personal grievances, rather than issuing a heartfelt tribute to the nation’s fallen\u2026. During the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump drew immediate condemnation when he dismissed Sen. John McCain\u2019s five-and-a-half years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. ‘He\u2019s not a war hero,’ Trump said. ‘He’s a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.’ Veterans’ groups responded with fury.”<\/p>\n

The Daily Beast reporter continues, “That same campaign season, Trump attacked Khizr and Ghazala Khan \u2014 the Gold Star parents of U.S. Army Captain Humayun Khan, who was killed in Iraq in 2004 \u2014 after they criticized him at the Democratic National Convention. Trump publicly questioned why Ghazala Khan had remained silent during her husband\u2019s speech, suggesting she had not been ‘allowed’ to speak. The backlash crossed party lines, with Republican senators and veterans’ organizations among those condemning the remarks.”<\/p>\n

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