President Donald Trump on Monday used what was intended as a solemn address honoring America’s war dead to deliver a speech replete with gratuitous attacks on his predecessor and talk about how God had returned him to the White House so he could preside over next year’s U.S.-hosted World Cup and the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
Trump, who spoke at the Arlington National Cemetery amphitheater following introductory remarks by Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine, opened his speech by speaking of the “incredible service members” who “rest in glory” at Arlington, at America’s overseas military cemeteries across the globe, and in “one thousand lonely places known only to God.”
