Trump Talking Points: Hegseth Changes D-Day Subject To Migrants

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said:“Thousands of American heroes died on D-Day to defend freedom and defeat fascism. Pete Hegseth should honor and respect their memory. Not politicize their ultimate sacrifice. May God Bless the Greatest Generation on D-Day and every day.”

After the speech, Hegseth“conspicuously skipped [the] afternoon's main international ceremony marking the anniversary of the Allied landings,” France 24 reported.“His presence was not missed by some residents of the village hosting the ceremony, Langrune-sur-Mer, who said the US official was not welcome there.”

As the news network detailed:

Hegseth's comments notably came a just day after US Vice President JD Vance claimed on social media that Henry Nowak – an 18-year-old student fatally stabbed in the United Kingdom last year by a fellow Brit who has since been sentenced to life in prison – would still be alive“if the last few generations of European elites had stood their ground against the politics of self-hatred and the mass invasion of migrants, many of whom despise the West and the people who love it.”

“Each time a life like his is lost, the proper response – the only response – is righteous anger,” Vance added.“One of the most important things the Trump administration has proven to the world is that stopping the flow of mass migration and defending national sovereignty is a matter of political will and leadership. Anything else is an excuse.”

In response, a spokesperson for UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said that“in recent days we have seen people trying to interfere in our democracy and seeking to stir up division on our streets. The Nowak family are grieving after Henry's horrific murder. They have said they don't want his death to be used to create further division, hatred, or tension. We should be respecting their wishes. Our politics should bring people together even in the most terrible of circumstances. That is who we are as a country.”

The recent remarks from Vance and Hegseth align with the Trump administration's official National Security Strategy, which was released in December and is full of rhetoric often used by white nationalists. The document accuses the European Union of enacting“migration policies that are transforming the continent and creating strife,” claims that“should present trends continue, the continent will be unrecognizable in 20 years or less,” and stresses that US policy is to help“Europe to remain European, to regain its civilizational self-confidence, and to abandon its failed focus on regulatory suffocation.”

Earlier this week, the 27-nation EU moved forward with an overhaul of its migration policy, which has led some human rights advocates to draw comparisons to Trump's use of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to crack down on people in the United States.

“Across the Atlantic, we see the violence and fear created by ICE's brutal immigration enforcement,” Silvia Carter, a spokesperson for the Brussels-based Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants, told The Associated Press.“Europe should be learning from the harms of that model, not building its own version of it.”