@lauren

Hi, I do not know you. You may not appreciate what I have to write here. I am a man. I certainly will not use any disparaging remarks. I tend to sometimes write generalizations which can be perceived as unpopular by the younger generation. I would like to offer my critique:

As I see it, there are two viewpoints in America when taking into account the Donald Trump phenomenon and the MAGA contagion who cheers on this President while blithely accepting almost anything and everything that our executive-in-chief pedophile stands for.

On one side is the "everything goes" camp with their rather tired mantra. This includes almost everybody in the MAGA camp and some from the left who clutch their pearls anytime Trump does anything untoward. Most of these extremists including those on the left are horrible at validation. By that, I mean they will not or cannot follow up on the bizarre claims they keep making with verifiable facts to back their own unfounded beliefs.

The other, more common side is the one of decency and normalcy. In this camp are the more "street wise" among us. This camp includes US veterans, service members who do not lean Republican, those exceedingly rare "Never Trump" conservatives, and all the rest of us good citizens who certainly didn't appreciate how Trump kept wearing his MAGA hat during that funeral. OF COURSE the President of the United States wore that hat because HE KNEW FULL WELL that wearing it went against the US military's tradition and their protocols regarding the veneration for our departed soldiers at their funeral service.

Donald J. Trump is the embodiment of disrespect. Trump is also immoral as an individual and so the disrespect thing doesn't concern him all that much. He still has the power to thumb his nose at tradition. That's been Trump's mantra ever since he won his first term back in 2016. He said "drain the swamp" which was code for stopping all liberals, jailing and deporting brown-skinned people, and sidelining most women who are not pliable to a typical MAGA conservative's liking.

Also: Donald J. Trump should have known better since after all, he attended military academy when he was a teenager and finished up grades 8-12 at that military academy in New York.

Trump pulls stuff like wearing that hat to contravene the conventional mindset and be a disparaging jerk, too.