Political Memes

When I've watched news from the USA, even the left wing ones, all they care about is the "six servicemen who were killed." Americans are truely the most exceptional people. Even on the left other countries are populated by subhumans.

That's not the point here. They're acting like they support the actual servicemen and women, when in reality it's fake to appease the cult. Act like you give a shit so you can use them and the followers will keep licking the boot. He's a fucking draft dodger too. Just trying to use armed services as his personal army.

Same with how Republicans are all "law and order" and elected a convicted felon. Or how they'll say if you just do what they say, you won't get hurt (by police) completely ignoring the fact that being white is the more accurate reason the police let them go or didn't fuck them up for the same crime a black or brown person would go straight to jail or catch a beating for. ACAB.

Correct, and as he's not military the preferred sign of respect is to remove his hat and put his hand over his heart. Like all prior presidents (whom have not served) do, and as other civilians in this photo are doing.

Trump has a long history of giving zero shits about signs of respect to the military though, so I'd say it's always worth pointing them out for the crayon eaters that still vote for him in droves.

Example of a different enfeebled elderly president that actually respects the military signalling his respect to the fallen:

To add to what you said, the origin of the salute is related to headgear.

One potential origin of the salute is knights raising their faceguards, which obviously requires you to be wearing one. Another potential origin of the salute is the courtesy of removing your hat in the presence of a superior officer. You still see this (though mostly in period historical dramas) with the hat tip.

The military still retains that link, you're not supposed to salute while wearing your hat. For civilians, the equivalent respectful move is to remove your hat in certain situations. These days you mostly encounter that at a sporting event where people sometimes remove their hats during the national anthem.

So, for a president who isn't part of the military, the official protocol is probably to stand at attention while not wearing a hat. An acceptable modern alternative is to salute, and since hats are uncommon these days it's mostly to salute while not wearing a hat. Saluting while wearing a hat is probably a reasonable variation on that. A disrespectful move would be to wear a hat and not salute. Of course, the fact it's a MAGA campaign merch hat is disrespectful in itself.

Fascists have this weird tendency to appear as if they are soldiers. Attire, manner, etc. Hitler used to do this too.

Isn’t the president commander in chief?

I’m not American, this is a real question

Oh sweet, looks like the US is getting it's own "Kim Jong-Un looking at things" style photo blog sometime soon.

He clearly needs to release another Donald J. Shitcoin as well. The grifts arent numerous enough, his supporters still think he has some credibility left.

Yeah. He did that too. Then he also murdered and ate them.

Everyone is looking in a different direction. Is it like the cycling fan that just rotates to get the whole room and they're out of sync?

She has none.