President Donald Trump delivered his first Memorial Day message of his second term, but the message went further than praising America’s fallen soldiers as “great, great warriors,” when he decried “the scum that spent the last four years trying to destroy our country” and “USA hating judges who suffer from an ideology that is sick.” Trump delivered a more typical and somber Memorial Day Address at the Arlington National Cemetery on Monday and laid the traditional wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. There, he paid tribute to veterans “who have made the ultimate sacrifice for our nation,” and “given their last breaths to each and every one of us that we might live safe, and breathe free.” The president highlighted several service members and their gold star families, paying tribute to their sacrifices as he said “Their valor gave us the freest, greatest and most noble republic ever to exist on the face of the Earth.” But his tune changed a bit, adding “A republic that I am fixing after a long and hard four years, that was a hard four years we went through. Who would let that happen? People pouring through our borders unchecked, people doing
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