VETERAN SCORNS DONALD TRUMP JR. FOR COMPARING HIS FAMILY'S SUFFERING TO DYING IN BATTLE: 'SACRIFICE IS ONLY A WORD TO THE TRUMPS'
Trump Jr. described a visit to Arlington National Cemetery. While his father, then-President-Elect Donald Trump, stood in front of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and the Army played "Taps," which is performed at military funerals, Trump Jr. said he thought about his family's sacrifices.
Ruben Gallego, who is an Iraq War veteran, heaped scorn on Trump Jr.'s words.
"Eight men I served with are buried in Section 60 of Arlington," Gallego wrote on Twitter. "I visit them monthly. Even if Donald Jr. lived a 1,000 years, he will never even get close to being as good and honorable as they were. Sacrifice is only a word to the Trumps."
Matt Gallagher, a former U.S. Army captain and also a veteran of the Iraq war, also weighed in.
"Imagine going to Arlington…and being moved to think about money," he wrote. "You are a soup sandwich, Donald Trump Jr., and my friends buried there would tell you the same thing."
Rieckhoff, who founded the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) organization, told Berman this was an example of how the president and his family are "tone-deaf about what it means to serve."
While he acknowledged there are many different ways to serve your country, he called comparing losing business deals to the veterans buried at Arlington "ridiculous."
"Unfortunately, that's the kind of tone that's permeated the last three years of this administration," Rieckhoff said.
Rieckhoff wasn't alone in finding Trump Jr. comparing his own experience to those who served in the military to be inappropriate. Veteran Army Major Richard Ojeda posted on Twitter that the first son should be "banned from that hallowed ground."
"His bloodline has nothing to do with the selfless courage that fills those gardens of stone," Ojeda wrote.
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