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Trump Marks Memorial Day With All-Caps Rant At ‘Scum’ And ‘Monsters’

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US President Donald Trump marked Memorial Day by posting an all-caps rant on social media that attacked Democrats as “scum” and condemned federal judges as “monsters.”

Trump’s grievance-filled message on Truth Social on Monday, posted on a day of sombre reflection for most Americans, saw the president also smear immigrants as “criminals” and “mentally insane.”

The president reportedly deleted an earlier version of the post in favour of a simple “happy Memorial Day!” before publishing the attack again with the typographical errors corrected.

In the post, Trump wished a “happy Memorial Day to all,” including the “scum that spent the last four years trying to destroy our country through warped radical left minds, who allowed 21,000,000 million people to illegally enter our country, many of them being criminals and the mentally insane, through an open border that only an incompetent president would approve.”

He added that US judges were “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 — all protected by these USA hating judges who suffer from an ideology that is sick, and very dangerous for our country.”

The president added that he hoped the Supreme Court “and other good and compassionate judges throughout the land” would save the country from “the decisions of the monsters who want our country to go to hell.”

Many of Trump’s policies have faced opposition from the lower courts, notably over his plans to crack down on immigration.

One federal judge has found that members of his administration may be liable for contempt after ignoring his order to turn around planes deporting people under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.

In a spree of Memorial Day posts, Trump also praised his own tariffs policy, claimed that the “golden age” of America is coming, and let rip at Vladimir Putin of Russia.

Trump also said he wants to pull $3 billion in taxpayer cash from Harvard University in the ongoing fight with the Ivy League school.

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Labour’s First Renationalised Train Service Gets Off To A Hilarious Start

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The first train to be brought back into public ownership under Labour was (metaphorically) derailed today, turning the major moment into a bit of damp squib.

South Western Railway (SWR) officially came under public ownership at around 2am on Sunday morning as part of the government’s promise to create “better services”.

The first service of the day – normally be the 2.27am train from Guildford to Waterloo – was cancelled.

So that meant the pressure was on the 5.36am service from Woking to London Waterloo to mark the historic occasion.

But any jubilation from the occasion quickly evaporated when the journey had to rely on a rail replacement bus service between two stops, Surbiton and Clapham Junction.

It turns out that bank holiday engineering works had overrun meaning the train was no longer able to go down the intended track.

But Keir Starmer seemed to overlook the embarrassment this morning, claiming on social media that his new public ownership scheme was “just the start”.

“After decades of Tory failure, our Plan for Change will put passengers first, as promised. That will mean better services, with simpler ticketing, on more comfortable trains,” the prime minister wrote on X.

The Department for Transport also promoted the “historic” occasion, claiming it “kicks off a reset of the railways to improve performance and boost economic growth as part of the Plan for Change.”

Despite this government spin, many people were quick to complain – including Liberal Democrat MP Monica Harding.

“This is hardly the fresh start my constituents in Esher and Walton were promised,” she wrote on X. “Let’s hope SWR under government control gets better than this!”

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First day of SWR’s renationalisation and all trains from stations in Hersham, Hampton Court, Thames Ditton, Esher, Hinchley Wood, Claygate and Walton on Thames to London Waterloo are replaced by buses – a rail replacement service!

This is hardly the fresh start my constituents… pic.twitter.com/W43Z7XiAwO

— Monica Harding MP (@monicabeharding) May 25, 2025

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First day of SWR’s renationalisation and all trains from stations in Hersham, Hampton Court, Thames Ditton, Esher, Hinchley Wood, Claygate and Walton on Thames to London Waterloo are replaced by buses – a rail replacement service!

This is hardly the fresh start my constituents… pic.twitter.com/W43Z7XiAwO

— Monica Harding MP (@monicabeharding) May 25, 2025

Others, of course, wasted no time in finding the hilarity of the situation.

Obviously can’t get enough of this story and very symbolic as the first privatised rail service in 1994 was also a bus replacement service*. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article…*To quote a poet: “After wondering to myself whether or not it should actually be called a train replacement service….”

— Jim Waterson (@jim.londoncentric.media) 2025-05-23T09:53:52.431Z

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South Western Railway starts as it means to carry on in public ownership as very first service is a replacement bus, (We didn’t’ even need to make this up) pic.twitter.com/xuPYAslPJn

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South Western Railway starts as it means to carry on in public ownership as very first service is a replacement bus, (We didn’t’ even need to make this up) pic.twitter.com/xuPYAslPJn

— The Rotherham Bugle (@Rotherhambugle) May 25, 2025