{"id":91369,"date":"2024-09-07T03:00:19","date_gmt":"2024-09-07T07:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=91369"},"modified":"2024-09-06T18:11:45","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T22:11:45","slug":"trumps-visit-to-arlington-broke-all-the-norms-no-president-has-ever-done-this-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/09\/07\/trumps-visit-to-arlington-broke-all-the-norms-no-president-has-ever-done-this-before\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s visit to Arlington broke all the norms &#8211; no President has <em>ever<\/em> done this before!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not being an American, I didn&#8217;t realize that sitting and former Presidents were banned from the grounds of Arlington National Cemetery, so Trump&#8217;s norm-obliterating visit has attracted <a href=\"https:\/\/chrisbray.substack.com\/p\/the-discourse-of-social-collapse\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">widespread vilification<\/a> from all corners of the nation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2024\/09\/05\/the-fhrer-principle-applied-arlington-scandal-invokes-hitlers-playbook\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">read the news<\/a>, Donald Trump recently did something so shocking and unprecedented that observers are staggered by his descent into evil:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Screenshot-2024-09-07-at-18-04-37-The-Discourse-of-Social-Collapse-and-the-Growing-Impossibility-of-Basic-Discussion.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Screenshot-2024-09-07-at-18-04-37-The-Discourse-of-Social-Collapse-and-the-Growing-Impossibility-of-Basic-Discussion.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"728\" height=\"134\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-91370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Screenshot-2024-09-07-at-18-04-37-The-Discourse-of-Social-Collapse-and-the-Growing-Impossibility-of-Basic-Discussion.png 728w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Screenshot-2024-09-07-at-18-04-37-The-Discourse-of-Social-Collapse-and-the-Growing-Impossibility-of-Basic-Discussion-480x88.png 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Screenshot-2024-09-07-at-18-04-37-The-Discourse-of-Social-Collapse-and-the-Growing-Impossibility-of-Basic-Discussion-150x28.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He went to Arlington National Cemetery and brought a photographer, so the only <em>possible<\/em> comparison is to Literally Adolf Hitler. It was so <em>outrageous<\/em> for Trump to perform the Nazi maneuver of being photographed at Arlington that the son of the late Senator John McCain was forced to make an <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/4859950-jimmy-mccain-trump-arlington-harris\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announcement to the world<\/a>, revealing that the horror of the event had forced him to change his party registration and support the Democratic presidential candidate:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Screenshot-2024-09-07-at-18-06-12-The-Discourse-of-Social-Collapse-and-the-Growing-Impossibility-of-Basic-Discussion.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Screenshot-2024-09-07-at-18-06-12-The-Discourse-of-Social-Collapse-and-the-Growing-Impossibility-of-Basic-Discussion.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"728\" height=\"142\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-91371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Screenshot-2024-09-07-at-18-06-12-The-Discourse-of-Social-Collapse-and-the-Growing-Impossibility-of-Basic-Discussion.png 728w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Screenshot-2024-09-07-at-18-06-12-The-Discourse-of-Social-Collapse-and-the-Growing-Impossibility-of-Basic-Discussion-480x94.png 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Screenshot-2024-09-07-at-18-06-12-The-Discourse-of-Social-Collapse-and-the-Growing-Impossibility-of-Basic-Discussion-150x29.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sample framing from that story:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>Jimmy McCain, who has served for 17 years in the military and is an intelligence officer, said he was angered by Trump&#8217;s conduct at the cemetery last week, adding &#8220;it was a violation.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;It just blows me away,&#8221; he told CNN. &#8220;These men and women that are laying in the ground there have no choice&#8221; about being in a political ad.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See how <em>evil<\/em> Donald Trump is? No <em>McCain<\/em> man would ever stand for some bastard shooting a <em>political ad<\/em> at Arlington National Cemetery. Also, you can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?c5130588\/user-clip-john-mccain-arlington-national-cemeteryad-november-1999\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a> to watch the political ad that John McCain shot at Arlington National Cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MostlyPeacefull\/status\/1831379735299158210\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Screenshot-2024-09-07-at-18-09-36-The-Discourse-of-Social-Collapse-and-the-Growing-Impossibility-of-Basic-Discussion.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"728\" height=\"763\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-91372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Screenshot-2024-09-07-at-18-09-36-The-Discourse-of-Social-Collapse-and-the-Growing-Impossibility-of-Basic-Discussion.png 728w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Screenshot-2024-09-07-at-18-09-36-The-Discourse-of-Social-Collapse-and-the-Growing-Impossibility-of-Basic-Discussion-480x503.png 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Screenshot-2024-09-07-at-18-09-36-The-Discourse-of-Social-Collapse-and-the-Growing-Impossibility-of-Basic-Discussion-611x640.png 611w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Screenshot-2024-09-07-at-18-09-36-The-Discourse-of-Social-Collapse-and-the-Growing-Impossibility-of-Basic-Discussion-143x150.png 143w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not being an American, I didn&#8217;t realize that sitting and former Presidents were banned from the grounds of Arlington National Cemetery, so Trump&#8217;s norm-obliterating visit has attracted widespread vilification from all corners of the nation: If you read the news, Donald Trump recently did something so shocking and unprecedented that observers are staggered by his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,28,5,53,13],"tags":[158,1037,188,457,548,238,593],"class_list":["post-91369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-media","category-military","category-politics","category-usa","tag-barackobama","tag-donaldtrump","tag-electionwatch","tag-fascism","tag-johnmccain","tag-offensensitivity","tag-socialmedia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-nLH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91369"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91374,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91369\/revisions\/91374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}