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Folks, tons to get to on today's show. memberships. Well, of course, this weekend marked Memorial Day, a grave occasion when we actually have the opportunity to honor our fallen warriors. And that means that it's time to take a look at where the United States currently stands in the world geopolitically.
Well, the presidents of the United States, Donald Trump, did a couple of things over the weekend. One of them Great. One of them not so good. We'll start with the not so good. He put out a statement on Memorial Day, and he's fond of doing this, putting out these statements on sort of national holidays or national days off in which he rips into his political opposition.
He did that on Memorial Day as well, which, again, isn't the best look because it's Memorial Day. He put out a statement saying, happy Memorial Day to all, including the scum.
that spent the last four years trying to destroy our country through warped radical left minds who allowed 21 million people to illegally enter our country, many of them being criminals and the mentally insane, through an open border that only an incompetent president would approve, and through judges who are on a mission to keep murderers, drug dealers, rapists, gang members, and released prisoners from all over the world in our country so they can rob, murder, and rape again, all protected by these USA-hating judges who suffer from an ideology that is sick and very dangerous for our country.
A Melvillian sentence there from the president of the United States. Again, on Memorial Day, it isn't a happy Memorial Day. It's actually not the proper greeting. But in any case, the actual good thing that he did was, of course, he gave a speech at Arlington in which he discussed our national heroes. Here's what he had to say.
Every Gold Star family fights a battle long after the victory is won. And today we lift you up and we hold you high. Thank you, thank you, thank you for giving America the brightest light in your lives. It's what you've done. We will never, ever forget our fallen heroes, and we will never forget our debt to you.
Okay, so again, that's the proper tone for Memorial Day. All of this part and parcel of a broader discussion as to what America's foreign policy should look like. And it is kind of unclear what the Trump doctrine is at this point in time. J.D. Vance, just before the weekend, spoke at the Naval Academy. At the Naval Academy, he spoke at length about what he sees the Trump doctrine as.
And there's a lot of wiggle room here as to what exactly he means. I think that Vice President Vance likes to use the Iraq war as sort of the bugaboo to attack any ideology that he does not find particularly good for American foreign policy. That's fine, but you're going to be hard pressed to find anybody who, knowing all we know now, would go back in time and do the Iraq war again.
So I'm not sure who he's arguing against here, aside from a very, very small coterie of people who refuse to acknowledge the reality, which is that we didn't find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and that the occupation did not go the way that it should have gone and all the rest. In any case, Vice President Vance is laying out what he sees as the Trump administration's foreign policy.
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