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Trumpland with Alex Wagner

What really happened when Donald Trump went to Arlington National Cemetery

Trumpland with Alex Wagner

NBC News

News, Society & Culture

4.51.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Donald Trump at Arlington National Cemetery this week was a very transparent

0:05.3

attempt for him to reclaim the spotlight he's been missing now that Kamala Harris

0:10.4

has moved to the top of the Democratic ticket. This is what Trump wanted you

0:15.8

to see and to talk about. An image of him at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

0:21.0

trying to look presidential as he allegedly

0:24.6

paid his respects to the 13 service members who died three years ago in the

0:29.2

bombing at Abbey Gate during the US withdrawal from Afghanistan.

0:34.2

But Trump and his campaign also used this occasion

0:38.4

and this hallowed space to make a not so subtle dig

0:42.4

at the Biden Harris administration.

0:45.0

His campaign manager calling one image,

0:47.0

the photo that shook the world and reminded America

0:50.0

who the real commander inin-chief is.

0:53.0

That is what Donald Trump wanted his trip to Arlington to be about.

0:58.0

But over the last couple of days, he's lost control of that narrative.

1:02.8

And now what everyone is talking about is this.

1:05.6

How Donald Trump and members of his campaign staff

1:09.5

ended up in Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery, the final resting place of

1:15.2

service members who died in Iraq and Afghanistan, and in violation of the

1:20.3

Cemetery's rules. And he used video of that hallowed space

1:25.6

as part of a partisan photo op.

1:28.4

And how his team physically pushed a cemetery staff member

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