Outside the Beltway

In Front of Our Noses: Trump’s Memorial Day Message

Noting new; still awful.

Steven L. Taylor · Monday, May 25, 2026 · 3 comments

This post is very much in the core spirit of the “In Front of Our Noses” series, as this is the kind of thing that is all too easy to ignore, despite it being commonplace and out in the open.

First, the juvenility displayed by a man who wields enormous power continues unabated. His new “Dumocrats” bit is pure elementary-school playground-levels of rhetoric.

Second, I wonder which “tremendous success” he would like lauded? Surging gas prices? Inflation? Empowering Iran? Corruption? Granted, it is a long list.

Third, and the initial thing that struck me: it is unwaveringly grotesque the way in which he constantly rejects his role as head of state to be divisive on issues that should be ceremonial moments of national unity. This has been a hallmark of the man from the beginning, and it is a characteristic that I know a lot of his MAGA followers love, but it should be a source of shame for the non-MAGA Rs who voted for him. Yet, they prefer to ignore it or brush it off as “Trump being Trump” (which, of course, is exactly what it is, and what they voted for, alas).

And is it too much to point out that a lot of Democrats are included in the long roster of those who made the ultimate sacrifice?

It is a bit stomach-churning to think that understanding and acknowledging such a fact is beyond the capacity of a President of the United States.