Sarah Beckstrom Died for Donald Trump's Vanity

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Sarah Beckstrom Died for Donald Trump’s Vanity
https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/sarah-beckstrom-died-for-donald-trumps

Mike Brock Nov 27, 2025


Sarah Beckstrom was twenty years old. She died serving her country—not in a war zone, not defending American lives, but because the President of the United States needed troops in Washington for a piece of political theater.

Not for national defense.

Not for constitutional purpose.

For spectacle.

She swore an oath to defend the Constitution.

Donald Trump violated it to put her there.

She should never have been deployed at all. A federal judge ruled last week that Trump’s activation of the National Guard in Washington, DC is illegal—a direct violation of federal statute. The mission had no constitutional basis, no lawful purpose, no justification except one man’s need for the optics of soldiers in the capital.

And Sarah Beckstrom died for those optics.

She’s from Summersville, West Virginia. A small town where people know each other, where when someone like Sarah signs up to serve, the whole community feels pride and worry in equal measure. Her parents sent her off believing she’d defend something worth defending. That the oath meant something. That service to country was sacred duty.

They were right about the oath. They couldn’t have known their daughter would die not defending against America’s enemies but serving as prop in one man’s performance of power.

Trump saw fit to comment on her passing. A norm preserved, I suppose. But not really. Because he’s not serious. He only loves himself.


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I withdraw my thanks on this thanksgiving. And instead give it all Sarah, because I and everyone else failed her. And yet, we will wake up tomorrow, and this travesty will continue.

— Mike Brock 🇺🇸 (@brockm.bsky.social) 2025-11-28T00:52:30.080Z

a cemetery with rows of headstones and trees
Photo by J. Amill Santiago on Unsplash

[Norrrm]

1. And what important warfighting functions did Trump have them accomplish? - Landscaping and trash pickup.

[Walleye]

2. Will he go to Dover Air Force Base for the dignified transfer? I seriously doubt it.

[geojazz]

3. Wonderfully written post!!

Thank you!!

[AverageOldGuy]

4. She is one of those who Trump described as

“Suckers and losers.”

She died in a hospital on life support with her father holding her hand.

[littlemissmartypants]

5. ...

[Martin68]

6. She died for Trump's vanity project.

[democrank]

7. The whole sad and awful truth

Rest in peace, young Sarah Beckstrom.

[Cha]

8. RIP Sarah Beckstrom.. Knoiwng your Loving

Memory Will Live On. 💙

She should never have been deployed at all. A federal judge ruled last week that Trump’s activation of the National Guard in Washington, DC is illegal—a direct violation of federal statute. The mission had no constitutional basis, no lawful purpose, no justification except one man’s need for the optics of soldiers in the capital.

And Sarah Beckstrom died for those optics.

TY

[BidenRocks]

9. Probably joined the WV Guard expecting to serve

West Virginians.

Dead for no reason. I've been thinking of John Kerry of late.

[Paladin]

10. As tragic as it was unnecessary.

Eternal shame upon trump for this outrage. Blessings upon Sarah Beckstrom, her family, and her fellow military personnel. And God help this country---it was never going to end any better than this. And it will never end, as long as this evil regime is in power.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

11. May she rest in peace

Link to tweet

Sarah Beckstrom, a 20-year-old U.S. Army specialist, passed away today from wounds she received when a gunman ambushed her and her colleague while they served America in the National Guard yesterday.

24 year-old Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe of U.S. Air Force remains in critical condition.

This is a tragedy on so many levels.

The suspect in the shooting, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, age 29, entered the USA in September 2021 under humanitarian parole via Biden's Operation Allies Welcome program and was vetted.

If you haven't OD on Kool-aid you should recall back in 2021, Trump and his MAGA GOP were extremely critical of Joe Biden for what they called leaving behind our allies in Afghanistan.

Lakanwal should have been vetted again under the TRUMP administration and was granted asylum under the TRUMP administration in April 2025.

Trump and Vance want Americans to now hate people in America from Afghanistan.

Hate doesn't stop murders, gunfire or help people with in any way, shape or form

Hate causes more of the same.