We’ll ignore the weirdness of having your smiling family pose around the grave of a loved one while a grinning politician gives a thumbs-up on the anniversary of your horrific death at the hands of a suicide bomber. That’s tasteless enough.
Allow us to point you to the grave of USMC Maj. (post.) Moises Navas to Trump’s right. Navas and another Marine were killed in March 2020, while Trump was President, fighting ISIS in mountain caves in southern Iraq. Unlike other Presidents who regularly made an effort to greet the remains of soldiers who died in service of our nation, though, Donald Trump stopped attending the “dignified returns” services at Dover Air Force Base soon after he took office. A migrant from Panama, Navas was one of the “losers and suckers” who gave his life for the United States. That was the first time Trump had been near Navas’s remains, thought he uses Navas’s sacrifice against ISIS as a campaign talking point about how tough Trump was against an enemy.