Wrong on so many levels but I'm not sure that people won't see it as "taking away veterans day" www.politico.com/news/2025/05... - ThreadSky

shoe.bsky.social • 44 days ago

Wrong on so many levels but I'm not sure that people won't see it as "taking away veterans day"
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/01/trump-rename-veterans-day-victory-day-for-world-war-i-00323118

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madamehardy.bsky.social•44 days ago

I doubt all the *living* veterans will be happy.

Seriously, who does this please? Pershing?

fakegreekgrill.bsky.social•44 days ago

Who is this for?

acallan1.bsky.social•44 days ago

brilliant strategery sir, Dems are totally cooked now that you've firmed up support from all the living WWI veterans at the expense of more recent vets. another huge W from DOGE's social security data analysis surely 🙃

sfinbar.bsky.social•44 days ago

Russia. To align Americans public memorials with Russians.

sfinbar.bsky.social•44 days ago

It’s super weird. Both in what it wants to do and the groupers theory of the case.

sfinbar.bsky.social•44 days ago

*groypers

fakegreekgrill.bsky.social•44 days ago

Ooooh. I always think of the UK and Canada.

sfinbar.bsky.social•44 days ago

Yeah, I don’t think the admin is trying to build ties there.

oleftra.bsky.social•44 days ago

Renaming shit won’t make you an effective leader. Doing crap like this to own the libs is having the opposite effect.

onetruestephen.bsky.social•44 days ago

It is!

williameburns.bsky.social•44 days ago

Not that many people really care about WWI.

algoresmilkymams.bsky.social•44 days ago

which sucks. it's probably more consequential than world war ii (because it led to it).
if i could go back in time to kill one person, it would be archduke franz ferdinand in 1893 or something.

erikgunderson.bsky.social•44 days ago

Meh. I don't think you'd prevent WWI that way. There were massive structures of economics and diplomacy pushing Europe to war. There was no shortage of Hapsburgs to take his place as heir apparent; Princip would have had someone to kill.

madamehardy.bsky.social•44 days ago

Agreed. Every European main was poised for war. Somebody would just have had to lose an ear.

madamehardy.bsky.social•44 days ago

*nation

algoresmilkymams.bsky.social•44 days ago

you're assuming everything else unfolds the same afterwards, which is unlikely.
more likely, the habsburgs retrench in vienna & things dial back a bit overall.
but, if i have to offer a 2nd choice, & not to be uscentric, it's making martin van buren the 1844 presidential nominee.

erikgunderson.bsky.social•44 days ago

Maybe go back in time further and give Metternich a contemporary European history book? If he could see how the Concert of Europe eventually collapsed maybe he masterminds a more durable structure than the interlocking alliances?

notthatmattwalsh.bsky.social•44 days ago

This is the perfect distillation of his "suckers and losers" mentality. Veterans are just a means to an end. Takes away their healthcare, and now takes away their national day of recognition.

ron891.bsky.social•44 days ago

Senile grandpa strikes again!

algoresmilkymams.bsky.social•44 days ago

next: memorial day restored to decoration day, as a sop to the southern partisans.

charliemas.bsky.social•43 days ago

I wouldn't mind if he wanted to return the name of the holiday to "Armistice Day", but this "Victory Day" idea is pure bullshit.

tomscud.bsky.social•44 days ago

imagine if biden or obama yadda yadda

pol-il.bsky.social•43 days ago

RETVRN to armistice day

darjeelingltd.bsky.social•44 days ago

He is 100% ending Veterans Day.

oldhoundderby.bsky.social•44 days ago

In Canada, it’s Remembrance Day and it’s the one of the most somber days of the year. It was a gruelling conflict with nothing to celebrate but lots of senseless loss to reflect on. Using “Victory” in reference that awful conflict is just more jingoism from Trump.

flyingfish765.bsky.social•44 days ago

Ok. So I guess March 29th (the day we left Vietnam) is now Defeat Day.

Will the post office be open?

madamehardy.bsky.social•44 days ago

We need one for Afghanistan, too.

shermanfan.bsky.social•44 days ago

I don't get it he's declaring May 8th to be the day, veterans day is in november am I misreading this?

hayes77519.bsky.social•44 days ago

It is taking away Veterans Day. He likes victories, not Veterans. He only likes the Veterans who won.

kab-fair.bsky.social•43 days ago

my 93yr old dad who did 2 consecutive tours in the Korean War,earned a Purple Heart apparently isn’t worthy of recognition, Korean conflict never had a resolution but apparently it’s a sore point for his buddy Un & didn’t he just get the Vietnamese to allow him to build a resort-a pattern develops

hayes77519.bsky.social•43 days ago

That is an interesting thought, but I would be surprised if there was any outside pressure suggesting that he do this. I doubt other countries, even ones we have had conflicts in, care about how we honor this holiday - I think it really is more that he loves gaudy shows of strength, and not people.

kab-fair.bsky.social•43 days ago

have seen those shameful dictator ego plans but his ignoring of vets associated w/Korea & Vietnam might suggest he’s appeasing those leaders, praising specifically WWI-WWII vets might be a secret slam to Germany as losers & UK needed US, just waiting till he announces commemorating confederate dead

hayes77519.bsky.social•43 days ago

Just look at the plans being talked about for a military parade in honor of his birthday. He is jealous of the parades that Kim Jong Un got, or that Hitler got. There is something deeply wrong with his mind.

acallan1.bsky.social•44 days ago

good pt. I might workshop our msg'ing to say he only likes the victories full stop, he thinks victorious vets were still suckers for serving

hayes77519.bsky.social•44 days ago

yeah, true

sergeant343.bsky.social•43 days ago

No he likes dead soldiers, for the dead want for nothing and don’t talk. Plus more useful politically if they’re dead.

snarkranger.bsky.social•44 days ago

Also, he can't do this. Federal holidays are written into statute. Congress would have to pass a law to rename it. (Which, yeah, lol, not even this Congress would do that.)

jonesgp1996.bsky.social•44 days ago

He “can’t” do it, but he keeps doing a lot of things that he can’t do. What’s actually going to stop this from happening?

digitalsoma.bsky.social•43 days ago

Yes, but Google immediately capitulated on "Gulf of America". What are they going to title Veteran's Day in their calendar app? What are the other companies, including printers, going to do?

snarkranger.bsky.social•44 days ago