The White House went back to the big plan of President Donald Trump to rename the day of veterans one day after publishing the idea on social networks.
“I will rename by the present on May 8 as the victory day for the Second World War and November 11 as the Victory Day for the First World War,” wrote the president on Truth Social Thursday. November 11 has been known as veterans day since 1954.
“We are not awarding veterans day,” the White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told ABC News on Friday. “It will only be an additional proclamation that will be released that day.”
We do not know what an “additional proclamation” would imply. The day was celebrated as a national holiday to honor those who have undertaken military service since 1918 and marks the anniversary of the armistice which ended the First World War. was Renowned by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, according to the Korean War, in accordance with the wishes of the veterans groups. However, the name change of veterans requires a congress act, which the White House seems to suggest that the president is not willing to continue.
“Many of our allies and friends celebrate on May 8 as a victory day, but we have done more than any other country by far, producing a victorious result on the Second World War,” continued Trump’s late evening.
Critics quickly stressed that the day of victory – or the day – is only celebrated in Europe to mark the date of the Allied victory over Nazi Germany in 1945. As all the high school manuals attest, America continued to fight the Second World War to Japanese surrender on August 15 of this year.
Factual surveillance has prompted MSNBC host Keith Olbermann, to score Trump “a full moron”.
The veterans’ defense groups rejected the idea of name change, arguing that an accent on the two world wars excludes veterans who served in subsequent conflicts, many of whom have not had a pure and simple “victory”.
“Veterans’ day should be recognition of the ways in which American compatriots have served and sacrificed to protect and defend what we have in America,” said Allison Jaslow, CEO of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America The New York Times. “It is not the fault of the veterans if we do not win wars.”
Celebrate only veterans of the First World War and the Second World War would exclude more than 99% of the 15.8 million living American veterans, according to a 2023 census. In particular, this issue includes vice-president JD Vance, which served in Iraq, but excludes Trump, which avoided the Vietnam War project citing “bone spurs”. Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen testified before the chamber’s supervisory committee in 2019 that Trump admitted to the injury. “Do you think I’m stupid? I was not going to Vietnam,” Trump told Cohen.
“We won the two wars, nobody was close to us in terms of strength, bravery or military brilliance, but we never celebrate anything – it is because we no longer have leaders, who know how to do it!” Trump’s post read. “We are going to start celebrating our victories again!”
With the latest overthrow of the White House, the name change of veterans day seems to be a “victory” that the administration will not celebrate anytime soon.
