Trump honours fallen soldiers on Memorial Day in twin events

TIL Desk/World/Baltimore/ President Donald Trump honoured America’s fallen service members on Monday as he commemorated Memorial Day in back-to-back appearances in the midst of the pandemic.

Together we will vanquish the virus and America will rise from this crisis to new and even greater heights,” Trump said during a ceremony at Baltimore’s historic Fort McHenry.

No obstacle, no challenge and no threat is a match for the sheer determination of the American people. Earlier, Trump silently honoured the nation’s war dead at a ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, which like Fort McHenry is currently off limits to the public because of the pandemic.

Presidents on Memorial Day typically lay a wreath and speak at the hallowed burial ground in Virginia. But the coronavirus crisis, soon to claim its 100,000th life in the U.S., made this year different.