Liz Cheney Takes Dig at Donald Trump in D-Day Message

Former Representative Liz Cheney seemingly took a dig at former President Donald Trump in a D-Day anniversary message on Thursday.

June 6, 2024, marks 80 years since American soldiers, along with other Allied troops, stormed the beaches of Normandy, France, to free democratic nations from Nazi Germany. On that fateful day, known as D-Day, roughly 4,400 Allied troops died—including 2,500 Americans—and more than 5,000 were wounded or went missing. But the day was a turning point in World War II that would eventually lead to the defeat of the Nazis and their leader Adolf Hitler.

Cheney's anti-Trump organization, The Great Task, posted a video on X, formerly Twitter, on Thursday to commemorate the lives lost on D-Day and to remind America what type of person should lead the free world.

The video starts with Cheney introducing a prayer for the Normandy troops that President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave in a national address on June 6, 1944.

"Almighty God, our sons, pride of our nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate. They fight to let justice arise, and tolerance, and goodwill among all thy people," the recording of Roosevelt said.

The video then showed clips of other former presidents, all Republican, sharing words about D-Day, code-named Operation Overlord, in the decades that followed. One clip from 1964 showed former President Dwight Eisenhower, who was the supreme allied commander during the invasion, explaining why American troops were in Normandy, "Not to gain anything for ourselves...but just to preserve freedom, systems of self-government in the world."

In another clip, President Ronald Reagan said in an address in 1984: "One's country is worth dying for, and democracy is worth dying for because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man."

President George W. Bush said in a clip from 2001: "This freedom and these hopes are what the heroes of D-Day fought and died for."

The video ends with a few words from Cheney about an ideal leader for America, presumably referring to the upcoming presidential election in November that is likely going to be a rematch between Trump, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, and President Joe Biden, the Democratic incumbent.

"America deserves a president as good and steadfast as our nation, a president of character, driven by a noble purpose, who honors the sacrifices of our troops," she said, without naming anyone. "Not a man consumed by spite, revenge and self-pity."

Newsweek reached out to Cheney and Trump's spokesperson via email for comment.

Cheney served Wyoming's at-large district from 2017 to 2023 and lost in the 2022 primary after being outspoken about Trump's alleged role in the U.S. Capitol riot that took place on January 6, 2021, arguing that he incited a violent mob of his supporters to storm the Capitol in a last-ditch effort to remain in power following Biden's 2020 election victory.

After Cheney, who was vice chair of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, lost the primary in August 2022, she launched The Great Task. The political action committee was created "to ensure Donald Trump and those who have enabled him are defeated."

While Cheney has vehemently opposed another Trump presidential term, she has not gone as far as endorsing Biden.