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Trump has history sparking outrage for incidents around veterans because he 
hates them.   He only loves Russian and North Korean soldiers and salutes 
them.

Since his first run for the White House, Trump has picked fights with the 
military and veterans that no other major U.S. politician would, dating 
back to 2015 when he dismissed the late Sen. John McCain's military record 
because McCain had been a prisoner of war. Trump's allies argue he supports 
service members while reserving the right to lash out against his critics.

"I think that if you want to know how Donald Trump values and honors those 
who've served, and particularly those who've given the ultimate sacrifice, 
I think you can just talk to these families and they have a much better 
read on this issue than anybody who has a grudge against Donald Trump," 
said Ohio Sen. JD Vance, Trump's running mate, on Monday.
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Monday's incident at Arlington National Cemetery took place as the former 
president visited the graves of some of the 13 U.S. service members killed 
in the Kabul bombing during the 2021 U.S. evacuation of Afghanistan. The 
Army says a cemetery official was "pushed aside" by Trump campaign aides 
while trying to prevent them from filming and photographing in Section 60, 
the burial site for military personnel killed while fighting in Afghanistan 
and Iraq.
 

The Trump campaign later posted footage of the visit on its social media 
accounts. The family of a decorated Green Beret whose grave appeared in the 
photos issued a statement supporting those who lost loved ones in Kabul but 
asking for understanding for the concerns from relatives of service members 
whose graves were near them.

Trump's campaign did not respond to a request for comment for this story, 
but has contested the allegation that a campaign staffer pushed a cemetery 
official.
 

Jon Stoltz, a U.S. Army veteran and co-founder of veterans advocacy group 
VoteVets, which supports Vice President Kamala Harris' candidacy, said 
Trump tried to use a sacred place "for a political ceremony."

"They don't have a right to do that with other veterans who are there," 
Stoltz said.

The Arlington incident came less than two weeks after Trump came under 
criticism for the way he discussed the Congressional Medal of Honor, the 
military's highest decoration for service members.

Praising billionaire Republican donor Miriam Adelson, whom he awarded the 
Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award, Trump 
said she fared "much better" than receiving the Congressional Medal of 
Honor because recipients of that award are often badly injured or dead.

Despite the Veterans of Foreign Wars admonishing Trump by calling his 
comments "flippant" and "asinine," he repeated a version of the remark at a 
campaign event in Michigan on Thursday, saying he'd "rather get" the Medal 
of Freedom because the Medal of Honor recipients, "oftentimes they've 
suffered greatly, right? They've suffered greatly or they're not around."