▪️If you ever wonder why the media creates fake narratives, it’s because they stick in people’s heads and, even when debunked, are still declared as truth years later. Then, propagandists like OD even add new details, like changing which World War it was 🤦♂️
▪️This had nothing to do with soldiers who gave their lives at Normandy in WWII, it was in reference to visiting the Aisne-Marne cemetery honoring soldiers who fought at Belleau Woods in WWI.
▪️This scared about his hair narrative began when the Atlantic reported anonymous sources told them that Trump didn’t want to visit the cemetery because the rain would mess up his hair and that it was “filled with losers.” The story came out in Sept 2020, just before the election, yet the supposed incident happened in 2018.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/09/trump-americans-who-died-at-war-are-losers-and-suckers/615997/
▪️It was vehemently denied by Trump and the White House. Several high ranking officials went on record denying the story, while to this day no one has come forward on the record to verify the claim.
▪️Buzzfeed later FOIAd documents from the Navy which revealed emails showing the Navy canceled the helicopter transport due to weather.
https://twitter.com/jasonleopold/status/1301673157699407873?s=61&t=wYS_HEkyKg4NfAC06jGdAg
▪️John Bolton also addressed it in his book, which was extremely critical of Trump, but on this topic said:
🔹 “Marine One’s crew was saying that bad visibility could make it imprudent to chopper to the cemetery. The ceiling was not too low for Marines to fly in combat, but flying POTUS was obviously something very different.”
🔹”If a motorcade were necessary, it could take between ninety and a hundred and twenty minutes each way, along roads that were not exactly freeways, posing an unacceptable risk that we could not get the President out of France quickly enough in case of an emergency. It was a straightforward decision to cancel the visit ...”
🔹”The press turned canceling the cemetery visit into a story that Trump was afraid of the rain and took glee in pointing out that other world leaders traveled around during the day. Of course, none of them were the President of the United States, but the press didn’t understand that rules for US Presidents are different from the rules for 190 other leaders who don’t command the world’s greatest military forces.”
It’s just so wild to see these movements see saw, it feels like just yesterday that conservatives were boycotting Disney and the left was gloating.
Just incredible. After posting a meme blaming Charlie Kirk for his own murder, they post another a few hours later applauding Democrats for their civility.
Also, if you look at the Occupy Democrats timeline, their posts “denouncing political violence” were variations on “no one should be shot…BUT here’s a quote from Kirk showing he’s a terrible person.” Or sometimes they’d leave the first part out altogether and just attack him. There are no posts denouncing violence without qualifiers trying to gin up their base.
