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hlthe2b

(102,138 posts)
Mon Jul 1, 2019, 06:40 PM Jul 2019

Vets To Give Out Thousands Of USS John McCain Shirts At Trump's July 4 Event

“It’s really a way to honor a family that ... has shown that the country is bigger than any one individual,” said Peter Kauffmann of VoteVets.

I can only hope Trump looks out to see a virtual SEA of these shirts...



https://www.huffpost.com/entry/veterans-john-mccain-donald-trump-july-4_n_5d1a43ace4b07f6ca581c21e


WASHINGTON ― Irked by President Donald Trump’s plan to hold his own July Fourth event on the National Mall, veterans plan to give out thousands of USS John S. McCain T-shirts to make the president face a crowd of people honoring the McCain family’s legacy and the idea of putting one’s country before oneself.

VoteVets, a left-leaning nonprofit group founded in 2006 by Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans, is organizing the effort in response to Trump’s unprecedented “Salute to America” celebration. While Americans will still be able to catch the annual fireworks display on the National Mall, Trump is hosting his own event at the Lincoln Memorial, where he will give remarks and has set up a ticketed area for VIPs, friends, family and members of the military. Trump’s event will include military flyovers and possibly tanks.

“Today, we learned the news that Donald Trump is turning the national 4th of July celebration into a 2020 campaign event, complete with a ticketed VIP section for friends and supporters,” reads a Sunday email from VoteVets. “That’s not what America is about.”

VoteVets has already raised enough money to make more than 5,000 T-shirts, which veterans will hand out to people on the National Mall and, before that, deliver to members of Congress. All of the shirts, which feature an image of the Navy destroyer named after three generations of John S. McCains — including the late Arizona senator and Trump critic — are being made by Rags of Honor, a company that employs homeless veterans.


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Vets To Give Out Thousands Of USS John McCain Shirts At Trump's July 4 Event (Original Post) hlthe2b Jul 2019 OP
This makes me smile Gothmog Jul 2019 #1
BRAVO! MineralMan Jul 2019 #2
Good Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2019 #3
... catbyte Jul 2019 #4
I am going to check to see if I can buy one of the teeshirts. Blue_true Jul 2019 #7
Good! K&R. nt tblue37 Jul 2019 #5
Burning US flags and flying Baby tRump Balloon BigmanPigman Jul 2019 #6
Oh, gawd, We'll never hear the last of the flag-burning. It will be his summer version of hlthe2b Jul 2019 #8
He will liken it to apple pie and baseball BigmanPigman Jul 2019 #9
I want one of those shirts !! donkeypoofed Jul 2019 #10
The perfect way of giving Trump the finger Number9Dream Jul 2019 #11

catbyte

(34,341 posts)
4. ...
Mon Jul 1, 2019, 09:17 PM
Jul 2019


I have my problems with John McCain's politics, but just the thought of thousands of those t-shirts greeting Il Douche makes my heart happy because it would just put him into an apoplectic fury.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
7. I am going to check to see if I can buy one of the teeshirts.
Mon Jul 1, 2019, 09:41 PM
Jul 2019

I don't wear stuff like that in public, but I plan to save the shirt (if I can get one) until later next year, then wear it in public as much as possible when the MAGATS break out their dunce caps.

BigmanPigman

(51,567 posts)
6. Burning US flags and flying Baby tRump Balloon
Mon Jul 1, 2019, 09:38 PM
Jul 2019

are also going to be part of the protests that day.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/07/01/washington-dc-4th-july-tanks-protests-baby-trump-balloon/1617386001/

PROTESTS in DC...

tRump Baby Balloon:
The liberal activist organization Code Pink is planning to fly a “Baby Trump blimp," referencing the 20-foot blimp that flew in London during Trump’s visits there in 2018 and 2019. According to the event description, it is still fundraising to “make sure Trump gets a great view.”

Flag Burning:
The man at the center of the 1984 U.S. Supreme Court case that protected the burning of the U.S. flag as constitutionally protected free speech is planning to protest the president as well. “I am going to D.C. on the Fourth of July and I’m going to burn the flag in protest (of his) whole fascist agenda," Johnson told USA TODAY.

hlthe2b

(102,138 posts)
8. Oh, gawd, We'll never hear the last of the flag-burning. It will be his summer version of
Mon Jul 1, 2019, 09:56 PM
Jul 2019

"can't say Merry Christmas until Trump came to office"...

No, I'm not saying he shouldn't do it, nonetheless, but everyone had better be prepared for his fake fury for days on end...

BigmanPigman

(51,567 posts)
9. He will liken it to apple pie and baseball
Mon Jul 1, 2019, 09:59 PM
Jul 2019

being banned/burned next by the unAmerican, librul elitists.

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