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President Trump Calls Biden Administration ‘Scum’ in Heated Memorial Day Message [1]
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Date: 2025-05
NEED TO KNOW President Donald Trump used his Memorial Day messages to the nation to slam former President Joe Biden's administration
His social media post and Arlington Cemetery speech both focused on Biden's handling of immigration, calling the prior administration "scum that spent the last four years trying to destroy our country through warped radical left minds”
“Hopefully, the United States Supreme Court, and other good and compassionate judges throughout the land, will save us from the decisions of the monsters who want our country to go to hell,” Trump stated
President Donald Trump kicked off Memorial Day with an impassioned post on social media.
However, the all-caps rant didn’t thank the country’s veterans or praise active military members. Instead, it was aimed at former president Joe Biden’s administration, members of the judicial branch, and other “monsters who want our country to go to hell.”
“Happy Memorial Day to all, including the scum that spent the last four years trying to destroy our country through warped radical left minds,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Monday morning.
The president went on to claim that the Biden administration allowed millions of immigrants to "illegally enter our country, many of them being criminals and the mentally insane."
He leveled blame for current U.S. immigration concerns on "an incompetant president" and "judges who are on a mission to keep murderers, drug dealers, rapists, gang members and released prisoners from all over the world in our country so they can rob, murder and rape again."
Later in the day, Trump doubled down during his Memorial Day address at Arlington National Cemetery.
Paying tribute to the first soldiers who died during the Battle of Bunker Hill, Trump pivoted, saying, "Those young men could never have known what their sacrifice would mean to us, but we certainly know what we owe to them. That valor gave us the freest, greatest and most noble Republic ever to exist on the face of the earth. A republic that I am fixing after a long and hard four years."
"That was a hard four years we went through," the president continued. "Who would let that happen? People pouring through our borders unchecked. People doing things that are indescribable and not for today to discuss."
While still avoiding saying Biden's name outright, he promised, "We will do better than we've ever done as a nation, better than ever before. I promise you that."
Donald Trump and Joe Biden shake hands ahead of inauguration ceremonies at the US Capitol on January 20, 2025. CHIP SOMODEVILLA/POOL/AFP via Getty
Deportations by the Trump administration have become one of the biggest hot-button issues of his second presidential term.
On March 15, Trump signed a proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 — which has only been used three times before, all during wartime — in order to target noncitizens who can then be “apprehended, restrained, secured and removed, as alien enemies.”
The first major target for deportation using the act was the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. Trump’s declaration authorized the removal of all Venezuelan citizens ages 14 and older who are not U.S. citizens or "lawful" permanent residents and were believed to be affiliated with Tren de Aragua.
The Trump administration used the act to speed up deportations, immediately sending over 100 suspected gang members to the CECOT prison in El Salvador. This led to a lengthy legal battle, and on May 16, the Supreme Court blocked the president from moving forward with additional deportations.
Guards escort the U.S. inmates allegedly linked to criminal organizations at CECOT on March 16, 2025 in Tecoluca, El Salvador. Salvadoran Government via Getty
Part of the argument against the use of the Alien Enemies Act was the avoidance of due process – in this case, the right to a hearing to determine if the deported individuals were even gang members or not.
In a May 4 Meet the Press interview with NBC News’ Kristen Welker, Trump dodged the question when asked whether or not "citizens and non-citizens" in the United States deserved due process.
"I don't know. I'm not, I’m not a lawyer. I don't know," he responded.
Welker pushed back, noting, "Well, the Fifth Amendment says as much."
"It might say that, but if you're talking about that, then we'd have to have a million or 2 million or 3 million trials," Trump replied. "We have thousands of people that are some murderers and some drug dealers and some of the worst people on Earth. Some of the worst, most dangerous people on Earth. And I was elected to get them the hell out of here, and the courts are holding me from doing it."
Despite blaming "USA-hating judges" for immigration under Biden, Trump backtracked a bit in his Memorial Day message to state his faith in the courts, while again, leveling vitriol at the previous administration and those who argue against his deportations.
“Hopefully, the United States Supreme Court, and other good and compassionate judges throughout the land, will save us from the decisions of the monsters who want our country to go to hell,” he wrote. “But fear not, we have made great progress over the last 4 months and America will soon be safe and great again!”
“Again, happy Memorial Day,” Trump concluded, “And God bless America!”
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