There truly are no comparisons that can be made where President Biden and Donald Trump are equivalent, but the vast differences can be seen just in one day’s activity by the two. Yesterday was Memorial Day in the United States – a day set aside each year to honour those who gave their lives protecting our fragile democracy. Robert Hubbell sums it all up in his newsletter this morning …
“AN IDEA UNLIKE ANY OTHER.”
28 May 2024
On Memorial Day, President Biden hosted a breakfast for military leaders, veterans, and Gold Star family members. The event was closed to the press, so there are no photos or media reports of his remarks. Rather than turn a White House reception honoring fallen soldiers into a public event or campaign opportunity, the President met privately to express gratitude to soldiers and their families.
Later in the day, the President participated in the Wreath-Laying Ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery and then delivered the Memorial Day Address the Memorial Amphitheater.
In his remarks, President Biden said,
America is the only country in the world founded on an idea — an idea that all people are created equal and deserve to be treated equally throughout their lives.
We’ve never fully lived up to that, but we’ve never, ever, ever walked away from it. Every generation, our fallen heroes have brought us closer.
President Biden also issued a statement commemorating Memorial Day, writing (in part):
Since America’s founding, our service members have laid down their lives for an idea unlike any other: the idea of the United States.
Today, as generations of heroes lie in eternal peace, we live by the light of liberty they kept burning.
May God bless them, always.
Joe Biden’s presence in the Oval Office elevates us as a nation. We are fortunate to have him as our president during this challenging time in our nation’s history.
Defendant Donald Trump issued his own statement commemorating Memorial Day. Trump posted a statement that began as follows:
Happy Memorial Day to All, including the Human Scum that is working so hard to destroy our Once Great Country, & to the Radical Left, Trump Hating Federal Judge in New York that presided over, get this, TWO separate trials, that awarded a woman, who I never met before (a quick handshake at a celebrity event, 25 years ago, doesn’t count!), 91 MILLION DOLLARS for “DEFAMATION” . . . .
What is notable about Trump’s Memorial Day greeting is that it does not mention veterans—living or dead—but is instead devoted entirely to himself. In contrast, President Biden’s message mentions only those veterans who gave their lives for “the idea of America” and does not mention himself.
The same contrast is seen in President Biden’s private meeting with Gold Star families. Trump took a group photo with Gold Star family members at the Coca-Cola 600 while wearing a “MAGA” hat and giving a “thumbs up.” Photo Trump at NASCAR Event.
Trump also used Memorial Day Weekend to announce the creation of “Veterans and Military Families for Trump,” an announcement that included the following statement:
Unlike the weak Joe Biden, President Trump has consistently proven he cares deeply about the unbelievable sacrifices made by our nation’s Veterans and their wonderful families.
In short, Trump’s relationship with veterans and Gold Star families is transactional, like everything else in his life: Fallen soldiers and veterans are props for his campaign. They matter only because they are part of a campaign organization supporting Trump.
The saddest part of that transaction is that the veterans’ sacrifices and their families’ grief are being exploited by a man who has called fallen veterans “suckers and losers.”
Rarely has our nation faced such a stark choice. On this Memorial Day, that choice is viewed through the lens of the sacrifice of more than a million Americans who died defending the “idea of America.” As President Biden said in his remarks today, we have “never fully lived up to the promise” of that idea. We cannot allow our past failures and present challenges to discourage us.
The question of whether a million Americans died in vain is for us to answer. They kept their oath; we must finish the story of their sacrifice. In 2024, we must honor America’s fallen veterans by ensuring that their sacrifice was not in vain by defending the democracy for which they gave their lives.
Source: The Difference Between Night And Day | Filosofa’s Word












A man tries to cool himself off as temperatures reached 46 to 48 degrees Celsius in Hyderabad, Pakistan on May 24, 2024.
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