Ted Lieu Slams Trump For Golfing Instead Of Attending Services For US Soldiers Who Died In Lithuania

4/8/2025

During Tuesday’s House Democratic leadership press briefing, Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) discussed President Trump's absence at the services for four U.S. soldiers who died in an accident in Lithuania.

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00:00With that, turn it over to Vice-Chair Ted Lute.

00:04Thank you, Chairman Aguilar.

00:06As an American and as a veteran, my heart goes out to the four U.S. soldiers who tragically died in an accident in Lithuania.

00:15The Lithuanian president did a very dignified ceremony for those four U.S. soldiers,

00:20and when those four soldiers' caskets landed at Dover Air Force Base last Friday at a transfer ceremony,

00:25U.S. officials greeted them, elected officials greeted them,

00:30but Donald Trump was not there.

00:33Donald Trump instead chose to go to a golf tournament.

00:36And I'm just going to read to you what one of the persons at this ceremony said.

00:44He deployed to Iraq. His name is Blythe Potter. He's a military police corps veteran.

00:48He said, quote, I have never been so embarrassed to be an American.

00:54President Trump should have been at that transfer ceremony for the four fallen U.S. soldiers

00:58instead of at his golf tournament.

01:02I now want to also echo what Chairman Aguilar said about the tariffs.

01:06There are attacks on the American consumer.

01:09As all of you know, the way tariffs work is when the foreign products come to our ports,

01:15the American company that imported those products pays a tariff, not the foreign country.

01:23And what happens when this American company pays that tariff?

01:27Well, they're going to pass along those costs to consumer, and the prices are going to increase.

01:31And poll after poll, we see that the overwhelming majority of American people oppose tariffs.

01:35There are ways to try to make competition more fair, but let's not do it by increasing prices on Americans.

01:43And their estimates are it's going to be about $3,800 per family in terms of increased costs.

01:49And then let me also now congratulate Susan Crawford for winning the Wisconsin Supreme Court race last week.

01:55What we saw there was the world's wealthiest man, Elon Musk, tried to buy the election, spending over $20 million.

02:02And the people of Wisconsin figured that out, and they overwhelmingly elected Susan Crawford.

02:09So what was once Elon Musk's greatest asset, his money, has now become his greatest liability,

02:16because the people now understand that he's trying to buy elections, and they overwhelmingly vote against that.

02:22And then their hands-off protests that we saw this past weekend were amazing.

02:27The American people were waking up that Trump and Republicans' policies are harming our nation.

Ted Lieu Slams Trump For Golfing Instead Of Attending Services For US Soldiers Who Died In Lithuania

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