{"id":183,"date":"2018-05-29T07:52:35","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T07:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/business-blog\/?p=183"},"modified":"2018-05-29T07:54:03","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T07:54:03","slug":"veterans-group-blasts-trumps-memorial-day-remark-as-most-inappropriate-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/business-blog\/veterans-group-blasts-trumps-memorial-day-remark-as-most-inappropriate-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Veterans Group Blasts Trump\u2019s Memorial Day Remark As \u2018Most Inappropriate\u2019 Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A veterans group has slammed Donald Trump\u2019s self-congratulatory tweet Monday as the \u201cmost inappropriate\u201d Memorial Day comment ever made by an American president.<\/p>\n<p>Trump boasted about unemployment rates and the economy in his tweet and said that dead veterans would be \u201cvery happy and proud\u201d about what he considers his accomplishments. (Both the jobs numbers and the economy began markedly improving during the Obama administration.)<\/p>\n<p>VoteVets, a group representing some 500,000 veterans and their families, bashed as \u201cappalling\u201d the president\u2019s self-promotion as well as his decision to wish families of fallen veterans a \u201chappy\u201d day. The group was also furious at the Republican Party\u2019s effort to essentially fundraise off Memorial Day by offering a 25 percent discount on official Trump campaign merchandise \u2015 \u201cUse Code: Remember.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many individual veterans and family members of those who sacrificed their lives in service piled on the president on Twitter as well. Actor Mark Hamill scoffed at Trump envisioning his approval rating among the dead.<\/p>\n<p>The president has been nicknamed \u201cCadet Bone Spurs\u201d by Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), an Iraq War veteran, because he obtained five draft deferments during the Vietnam War, including one for \u201cbone spurs.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VoteVets calls it \u201cappalling\u201d to offer happy greetings and self-promotion on a day meant to honor the fallen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-votevets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/business-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/business-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/business-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/business-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/business-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/business-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185,"href":"https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/business-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions\/185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/business-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/business-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/business-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/business-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}