Donald Trump commemorates D-Day by tweeting 1943 picture that’s not from D-Day
Donald Trump commemorates D-Day by tweeting 1943 picture that’s not from D-Day
The presumptive GOP nominee tried honoring the invasion’s 72nd anniversary Monday in a tweet — and somehow chose a picture that isn’t even from D-Day.
“Remembering the fallen heroes on #DDay — June 6, 1944,” the billionaire buffoon wrote with a picture of soldiers running on a beach.
The photo was captioned: “D-Day June 6, 1944.”
But it is not from D-Day, or even from 1944.
Getty Images, which licensed the photo, said it was from a training exercise for D-Day in 1943.
For good measure, the photo’s caption clearly states: “Troops coming ashore during training exercises for the Allied D-Day invasion.”
Earlier in the day, Trump’s Twitter account showed equal dishonor to basic grammar. In a tweet responding to damning reports about his barebones campaign, Trump dropped this gem: “I am getting bad marks from certain pundits because I have a small campaign staff. But small is good, flexible, save money and number one!”
The Donald’s D-Day doozy came a week after he finally broke down the $6 million he donated to veterans groups — in a press conference he largely devoted to hating on the press.
Donald Trump
I am getting bad marks from certain pundits because I have a small campaign staff. But small is good, flexible, save money and number one!
At the presser, Trump deemed himself the only person “in the world who could raise almost $6 million for the veterans, have uniform applause by the veterans group and end up getting criticized by the press.”
Trump’s own military record is nearly nonexistent. Despite earning medals at the New York Military Academy, he repeatedly dodged the Vietnam Draft and eventually earned a medical deferment for bone spurs in his foot.
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