Trump Will Gladly Do the Jitterbug on Your Grave

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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/opinion/trump-death-mueller.html



He’s at his peak when maligning the dead.


On McCain’s and Powell’s graves, Trump did a lazy waltz. On Mueller’s, a jitterbug.

And we’ve already moved on. We always do. That’s the thing about Trump’s moral grotesqueness — there’s so much of it that no one instance, no single episode, can hold our attention for long. He maxes out our memories, the new depravity quickly overwriting the old depravity on our hard drives.

But let’s not purge his denigration of Mueller just yet. For several reasons, it warrants more than a fleeting wince.

A common thread runs through the lives of McCain, Powell and Mueller. All three were military veterans. All three saw combat. And all three received Bronze Stars and Purple Hearts for their service and injuries in Vietnam — the place that Trump avoided with a physician’s note attesting to his ostensibly debilitating bone spurs.

Is Trump shamed by their examples? He’s surely baffled by their choices. Trump wouldn’t risk a paper cut unless there were a multimillion-dollar payoff on the far side of the nick. And he has privately referred to Americans killed in wars as “suckers” for having put their lives on the line, according to reports — which he has called “fake news” — by several news organizations.