Trump Visiting West Virginia, What You Need to Know

On Tuesday, President Trump will visit the Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia to give remarks at the Salute to Service dinner ahead of the PGA Golf tournament, A Military Tribute, beginning on Wednesday. One can hope that the President will spend his speech highlighting the sacrifices our brave servicemen and women and military families have made for our nation and recommitting his administration to ensuring the best for our nation's veterans and members of military communities; however, the President is not known for message discipline or accepting responsibility for his administration's failures.

Here's what he probably won't mention in his speech:

• Persistent vacancies at highest levels of the VA including the head of the agency
• Military drinking water crisis the Trump White House and EPA officials tried to hide because it would be a "public relations nightmare"
• An estimated 1.5 million veterans rely on SNAP benefits, or food stamps, to make ends meet and would see their benefits slashed by Trump-GOP agenda
• An estimated 2,200 veterans in West Virginia would have lost their Medicaid coverage under GOP-passed Trumpcare
• Sexual assaults in the military are rising – up 10 percent in FY2017 to the highest number since the military started tracking them
• There is no set budget for the President's long-desired military parade down D.C. streets but the Joint Chiefs have been tasked with drafting a planning order for Northern Command
• His previous claims that he signed the first pay raise for the military in ten years were rated "Pants On Fire" false by Pulitzer Prize winning Politifact
• His decision last month to order the Defense Department to create a Space Force "separate but equal" to the Air Force was a surprise to military leaders in the Pentagon much like his tweets in July 2017 declaring transgender people would be banned from military service

Veterans, servicemembers, their families and caregivers deserve real respect from the President. These heroes deserve our recognition of their selfless sacrifice and our unwavering, unflinching commitment both while they serve and when they come home.