VICTORY DAY -- WTF?

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Saturday, May 03, 2025

VICTORY DAY -- WTF?

I wonder if we'll ever hear about this again:
You know you've bombed when even commenters at Gateway Pundit and the Fox News site don't like your idea. From GP:

I am a veteran and a Trump supporter. But I don't think he should mess with Nov 11 being Veterans Day for all veterans.
Not a good idea.
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Much more important matters to attend too like arrests and indictments!
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Yeah most people understand Veteran's Day. Victory Day is too vague. DJT needs to leave it as is! Veteran's Day.
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I agree. Make Aug 15th which is VJ day the official date for the end of WWII for us. I get why the Europeans use May 8th because for them the war really was over but we were still in conflict with Japan and our people were still fighting and dying. VJ day as well as VE day used to be on the calendar just like Flag day and Veterans day are now.
Everyone already knows that Veterans day was also the date of the end of WWI.

This is Gateway Pundit, so not everyone thinks our victory in Europe was a good idea:

We need to get past this narrative of WWII being a victory
It was -- for Communism
Judeo-Bolsheviks killed 20-30 million Christians before WWII broke out
It was Germany that helped stopped the Bolsheviks
Until the United States helped destroy Germany!
The Bolsheviks are now destroying America from within by driving the Communist-Left from the ADL, NAACP, ANTIFA, SPLC, HIAS, Abortion/Child Sacrifice, Frankfurt School, Hollywood, anti-White CRT, anti-Christianity, locking j6ers in the DC Gulag, Gun Control and much more including Third World RepIacement of White Christians.
How is that working out?

The comments at the Fox site are a bit more mainstream:

I am a vet. US Navy retired. We already do honor those who fought for our country. Nothing needs to change.
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NO. I am a disabled Veteran and that day has been for ALL OF US THAT SERVE and come home, regardless of when or where. Memorial Day is for those we lost who did not make it home. I do not agree with Trump on this. Changing Veterans day to victory day for WWI is not acceptable and is an insult to all of us that have served. The only way this stops is by WE VETERANS standing up and saying no.
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Not sure veterans will appreciate Veterans Day being renamed WWI Victory Day. How about you honor all vets instead of only honoring those who fought in wars with a clear winner. It's not the soldier's fault leadership went into quagmire situations
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We don't celebrate anything? Well, Veterans Day, July 4, and Memorial Day have been celebrated for quite some time. We also have days of remembrance for 9/11. Did Trump forget?

Why did Trump do this? He's announced a huge military parade for his birthday in June, details of which were reported this week, but he's like a bratty child in the back seat of the car who's been promised ice cream as soon as the family gets home, but even though he knows the house is five minutes away and his favorite flavor is in the freezer, when he sees an ice cream stand on the road he wants the family to stop and get him some NOW! NOW! NOW! It's killing him that there'll be Victory Day parades in Russia and in other former Soviet Bloc countries on May 9, but there won't be one here. I assume he's thinking there should be May 8 parades here next year -- not only will we have one, but we'll have it first! A day early!

The Truth Social post seems to combine a few semi-obscure strains of thinking in the Fox News Comic Universe. One part of this is the belief, widespread on the right and often articulated by the likes of Pete Hegseth, that America hasn't won a war since World War II and it's because our military is "woke." Beyond that, we have the classic Fox News perils-of-the-modern-world formula whereby "nobody" does [fill in traditionalist thing] anymore, whereas everybody did it in some bygone Golden Age, which needs to be brought back. (The classic example is "Nobody say Merry Christmas anymore." In the real world, of course, people say "Merry Christmas" all the time, and celebrate the victories in these wars.)

Trump's names for these new holidays are awful. "Victory Day for World War I" and "Victory Day for World War II"? Too long, too awkward. You might think that this is a sign of Trump's mental decline -- hasn't he always been a great marketer? -- but, in fact, he's not particularly skilled at marketing anything except right-wing grievances and his own personality. Names? He's not so good at those. Remember his tax cut bill eight years ago? He reportedly insisted that it should be called "the Cut Cut Cut Act." He eventually agreed on the dull and clumsy name by which the law is known today: the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, a name that always seems to have one s too many.

I wonder if Trump will even remember this pronouncement by May 8, or by November 11. I suspect that he won't be handing out Victory Day hats the way Gulf of America hats were distributed at a recent Cabinet meeting, or suing news organizations that still refer to November 11 as Veterans Day. But who knows?