• finley@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    The 80th anniversary of D-Day isn’t an “annual thing”. Biden was invited, just as Trump was in 2018 for the 75th anniversary. Edit: Trump’s visit was in 2018 was supposed to honor US Marines who died in WWI (where Biden also visited during this trip). Trump skipped the ceremony and then shit-talked the US Marines, referring to them as “losers.”

    Biden showed up-- and managed not to disparage thousands of war heroes at the same time, unlike Trump.

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      5 months ago

      So, the 75th was in 2018…

      And six years later in 2024, it’s the 80th?

      You sure about that math?

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        5 months ago

        oops, my mistake. Trump was supposed to visit the same WWI cemetery in 2018 to honor fallen US Marines for the 100th anniversary of the end of WWI. I got this confused with Biden visiting the same WWI cemetery on a trip to honor the 80th anniversary of D-Day, a WWII battle.

        fixed.