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Gold Star families forced to stand in rain 'perfect metaphor' for Trump presidency

May 26, 2026Left

This Memorial Day, as an “exhausted, unsteady, and vacant” President Donald Trump stood fidgeting and bored beneath shelter at the Arlington Cemetery wreath-laying ceremony, Gold Star families who had lost loved ones in military service sat uncomfortably in the rain. According to Republican strategist Steve Schmidt, “It was the perfect metaphor for this…

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