All of those lost in any of the last five wars. Not only that, but the count is approaching the number of americans who died in world war i. The New York Times marked the occasion this weekend with a fitting tribute to the victims on its front page. A long and diverse list of names that represent only a fraction of the lives lost. Amid this, we saw donald trump attend the traditional wreath laying sermon know aceremony at National Ceremony and spent the bulk of a solid weekend lobbying offensive insummsummi insults a golf. Ridiculing nancy pelosi for her appearan appearance, mocking Stacey Abramss weight and calling Hillary Clinton a word i will not dignify on air and if that wasnt juvenile enough, the president engaged in a virtual shouting match with the Republican Senate candidate that may once chose as his attorney general jeff sessions. As the Washington Post put it, trumps barrage of social media attacks stood in sharp contrast to a sober reality on a weekend for mourning military dead. Trump also squeezed in two rounds of golf including one on sunday morning allowing himself to be seen golfing which he rarely has. After encouraging churches to reopen for services. Those very visible outings sent the clearest signal yet that the president wants you to believe its safe to resume life as normal. To pretend all this horror has magically gone away like he said it would months ago. Unfortunately, new images of overcrowded bars, beaches and pools from around the country this weekend confirmed that many americans, at least those who take trumps lead feel the same way. Trump today defended his decision to play golf saying he wanted a little exercise. Im joined by elih. White house reporter for the los angeles times. Susan is a republican strategists and michael, nbc news political historian. Elih, donald trump is not a church going man that anybody has seen but insisting churches need to reopen. It was rare for us to see him playing golf. He spends a lot of time visiting his golfing resorts. What is the white house want the country to take from that . Because it was not a very solum presentation of himself. No, but the white house will respond to that critique and say look, this president had the flags lowered to half staff. This president said over and over again one person killed is too many, but obviously, your point is well taken. The message that the president has said those sort of recitations of grief, they have not brought the country together and they have been undermined by other messages the president has sent from his twitter feed or symbolically by hitting the golf course and things he said in interviews that the mourning and the death that is not his focus. He is very inpatient and eager to get this country back to normal, even though without a vaccine, most people say you can reopen whatever you want, the economy is not going to come back until there is a vaccine. This is an inpatient president trying to send that message. He tweeted over the weekend, the case loads are dropping. That was the day after dr. Birx stood in the White House Briefing room and said thats not the case and that shes very concerned with the rising numbers in a lot of cities including washington d. C. And los angeles. So, you know, this president is trying to push the country back towards what he views as normalcy and obviously, it just doesnt ring true with the experiences of a lot of people mourning loved ones this weekend and who are still very concerned about their own well being if they decide to go back out and leave their homes and try to reengage in normal behaviors. Right. And its striking if the church going, his church going base follows his lead, they are putting themselves at great risk. I want to play for you, this is how donald trump used to talk about president s who spent a lot of time playing golf. We have a president who doesnt fight. He goes out and plays golf all the time. He doesnt want to work too hard. He wants to go back and play more golf. He plays more golf than the guys on the pga tour. Go golf, golf, more, more, learning how to chip and hit the drive and putt. I want more. If i win, there wont be time to go golfing all the time. Im not going to be playing much golf, believe me. If i win this, i wont be playing much golf. Im not going to play much golf because there is a lot of work to be done. What am i going to do . Play a round of golf . Its boring. So first of all, president obama didnt own golf resorts he could visit as many times as a taxpayer expense trump visited his own. Lindsey graham, of course, defended trumps golf outings, of course. Saying glad to see him back on links. Americans worked hard to mitigate the spread, yada, yada. This is a president at leisure much of the time. He has a lot of time to tweet. Are there any republicans left who find this odd . Lindsey graham doesnt think its a problem but does the party think hes presenting himself in a way that is going to be helpful to them . A lot of them are up for reelection. They would be foolish to think he would be helpful to them. Weve seen in 2018 he was helpful to virtually nobody. The democrats won in a blue wave. When it comes to the whole golf ing thing, i never cared when president obama golf. Is trump a hypocrite . Yes. Do we know that . Absolutely. Im surprised hes willing to take such a bad vision and put it out there. I mean, frankly, he was standing out there in the weeds where his campaign was. He should be focused on other things but there are times its not so bad hes on the golf course because then hes not up to mischief in the white house. Ill put that aside. Republicans will be making a big mistake if they think they can tack on to donald trump. They needed him to win a primary but in these swing states, he is going to be an anchor around their neck. Yeah. Michael, it strikes me that that image of a president golfing when nearly 100,000 americans are dead and that contrast with that New York Times cover, one would expect from a president is missing somehow. There is an ad that the Lincoln Project is running right now in which it shows, you know, president lincoln narrating a letter to the wife of a war dead. Actually, can we play it for a second . This is cut six. If we could play it for one moment because i want you to comment on the contrast. Do we have that . I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a lost soul overwhelming, but i cannot refrain from tendering you the consolation that may be found in the republic they died to save. I pray our heavenly father may assuage the anguish of your beravement and leave you the cherished memory of the loved and lost and the solum pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the alter of freedom. Yours very sincerely and respectfully, abraham lincoln. You know, michael, im struck by the formality of language, which i do miss in the way president s normally speak, but also by the sort of grace of it. Youve written a book called president s of war. The way that donald trump sounds, how is that meaningful, the way he behaves, the way he golfs, the way he acts in the case of this calamity . All these things are making statements and the statement they make is that hes not devoted 140 to mobilizing the federal government and uniting the country to save lives, to protect americans. If you asked me tonight what is Donald Trumps plan to minimize the number of people lost for this pandemic, i couldnt tell you and the other thing, joy, is that this is the day in 1787 that the Constitutional Convention opened in philadelphia. Donald trump let me hold you for one second. We are having some audio problems. Were going to dial you back in. I want to hear you finish that thought. Well try to dial michael back in and im going to come back to elih while we try to reconnect with michael. Because there is the sdonald trump golfing and this. This is cut one for my wonderful producers. This is happening in kentucky where a Second Amendment protest was held very close to the grounds of the State Capitol in which the governor was hung in a place visible to where his he lives with his wife and children. That was a thing that happened this week. The sort of rage on the side of the trumpests because they have to be locked down, because there are rules, because at least there are ideas to keep people safe. Thats a weird thing. Yeah, its refect tiive, this something thats exacerbated it and we have a moment that maybe in another era might have served to help unify this country a little bit at least temporarily and we just have not seen a National Coming together in response to this coronavirus that has taken close to 100,000 americans. Its just staggering and instead, this president has mixed the messages and calls for unity and for mourning with a lot of really sharp political attacks and dontcontinued to se story mainly through the lens how it reflects on him when hes talked about the numbers of dead, hes talked about it not as people but as statistics and he has pointed to this not as a cause for national mourning, but as a reflection of his own success in combatting this saying again and again whether its 50 or 70 or 100,000 americans who have died, he keeps saying well, it would have been a lot more if not for the great job we have done and so that is his playbook to continue to pat himself on the back, not to really express the empathy that the country is used to hearing from president s and to really lash out at the media and at democrats and anybody who he feels is not giving him his due right now and that is just totally unique. I think in a moment like this, obviously, weve seen and been through a lot of political moments and obviously, this is the country being divided. Thats nothing new. Michael can talk more about that. This moment that could be about unity, it has not been so far. Yeah, and we do have michael back. I want to bring you back in and let you finish your thought, michael. Okay. Thank you so much, joy. What i was saying was the constitution says that we americans are striving for a more Perfect Union and to ensure domestic tranquility, can you say tonight that especially in the last couple months this is someone striving to unite the country, create a more Perfect Union . Is this someone striving to ensure domestic tranquility to pit citizens in a state against governors to try to protect them or states against one another . This is part of his job. It is striking, susan, you know, for your party. This is the leadership hes providing. Its striking people still continue to support him as he is doing this and basically governing a third of the country or whatever share is still supporting him and surprising to me there arent more people that say no, this is not acceptable in our party and country. I wake up every day, sdwroi, a joy, and wonder the same thing. Where are the people of my party that know better but go into this and they got sucked into donald trump. Now, there are still a good deal of republicans who dont really support the president anymore but they just dont know where else to go because frankly, they dont feel like the Democratic Party is there for them. But there is just one other thing looking at the images you put up today, joy, i just keep thinking that this president is anything but inspirational. He doesnt cause us to dream. He wants us to hate and divide. Thats his message to the country on memorial day is to hate other people and i cant think of anything more disgraceful for the president of the United States to do on a day like today. Yeah, and we do have a sound byte now of a member of his administration talking about fellow americans and it is again, very striking the way that the trumpests sound when they talk about their fellow americans. Lets take a listen. Robert said that he thinks it looks a little bit like at the end of the world war ii the countries that didnt have their Capital Stocks destroyed by the war, when the war ended they pretty much got their economies going at 40 or 50 and here he was cautioned about the analogy in a private email. I think that, you know, professor barrows view, we dont have our Capital Stock isnt destroyed. Our human Capital Stock is ready to get back to work. There are reasons to believe we can get going faster than we have in previous crisis. You know, michael, to refer to human beings, human workers who are the country is depending on to eat, to, you know, to survive this as stock is weird, but it seems to be showing this era. Your thoughts . I cant believe what im hearing and i cant believe when a president is saying things like transition to greatness and its time to open up the economy. All well and good. His more fundamental job is to save peoples lives and save people from this plague and calamity. What you saw today would not give us confidence this is a president spending 140 mobilize resource a president has to protect all of us and ensure our safety. Yeah, and i should note that was white house Economic Advisor kevin hasset speaking about stock. Thank youall. A wonderful memorial data youall and coming up, the rush to return to normal. Will we see a spike in covid19 cases two weeks from now because of scenes like this in the ozarks . Plus the republican war against voters. 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This weekend videos of memorial day parties at missouris lake of ozarks went viral as swarms of party goers not Wearing Masks and were certainly closer than six feet from each other packed into overcrowded pools despite the on going pandemic. Let face it, the weirdness of seeing that bunched up in a human stew. Regardless, without specific recalling out the ozarks partie partiers, the director of the Missouri Department of health released a statement noting covid19 is still here and social distancing needs to continue to prevent further spread of infections. Close contact with others even if you are in the outdoors is still considered close contact and can lead to more infections. The virus can be transmitted among those young and healthy who arent experiencing symptoms. When they carry the virus and transmit it to a more vulnerable person, this is when we tend to see the long lasting and tragic impact of these decisions being made. The mayor of one of the towns that hosted a party told the Kansas City Star my concern is for the workers and whether some of the folks that have come down might be creating a Health Problem for the community. Absolutely. The only other thing you can do would be to shut it down. I dont know how you would shout down lake of the ozarks. There is no way to control that. Im joined by the st. Louis mayor. So seattle is a little less than three hours away from the lake of the ozarks, madam mayor. Are you concerned that there could be a hot spot in your community because of these parties . Joy, thank you. Youre right. St. Louis is about 150 miles maybe from the lake of the ozarks and the lake is a popular place for people throughout the midwest to go, not just st. Louis but throughout the midwest and this kind of very risky behavior really, im sure it was fun at the time, but very risky behavior and then thats going to go back not only to st. Louis, which of course, were very concerned about but probably to locations around the midwest, and so its a very serious situation here when folks just completely disregard the staying six feet apart and Wearing Masks and that sort of thing. So yes, we are concerned about it. Yeah and st. Louis, thank you for the correction there. So missouri cases and deaths so far, well put that up on the screen, 12,508 cases and 602 deaths. Here are the reopening guidelines. The social distancing requi requirements do not require individuals with job contacts with other people closer than six feet. Under these conditions barber and cosmetology shops and tattoo parlors can operate. Missouri hair salon clients were exposed because two stylists at great clips in missouri tested positive after a second hair stylists at the location tested positive for the coronavirus. 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