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Trump Hijacks Veterans Day to Tout His Iran War Record Before His Own Ambitions Take Center Stage
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Source: Atlanta Black Star
On a day meant to put veterans first, Donald Trump once again found a way to make the spotlight about himself. Some stages should remain off-limits to politics. Yet the president walked onto one of the most sacred places in the country and left behind a line that has critics accusing him of rewriting history in real time. The setting called for reverence. There were flags, salutes, uniformed service members, and families who understand loss better than anyone. But before long, the president’s speech steered the moment back toward the war he keeps promising will be over any day now. Then came one sentence about how that war began. It landed so far from the record that people watching at home started pulling up timelines.
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